Today I turn 29 weeks pregnant. One week til the big three-oh! 30 weeks seems like a huge milestone! It's three quarters of the way through, still a way to go, and the hardest in some respects, but yay! I had my 28 week appointment yesterday - the midwife keeps thinking I'm at the next day up by her wheel thing - so yesterday she thought I was 29 weeks when I was 28+6 ;) I had both boys with me, because I forgot that it was half term this week and that Robert wasn't at nursery. But they were both so well behaved! We got there early because I forgot to grab a wee sample bottle last time, so I got one from reception and filled it then and there (well, not at the reception desk!! lol) before the appointment. The boys played in the doctors surgery play area (which consists of a nailed down bead table, a few chairs and some rather (ahem) well played with books (ie, pages missing, corners bitten out, spines broken etc). There was a woman I've seen before a few times, once when Christopher was a bump still, she had her baby in a home made sling, and being interested in slings myself at the time I struck up a conversation with her. Then I saw her again at a sling meet, then more recently in the swimming pool, and she was at the dentist yesterday. Anyway, when they came into the midwife's office with me, they were both very well behaved and quiet. Which made a change from the previous appointment, which had Christopher screaming the entire appointment, because I hadn't realised he wanted to put a borrowed book away before going into the office! Gah! Christopher sat in his buggy the whole time (he had got in voluntarily before wheeling into the office), and Robert, was standing quietly, watching, as she did the usual wee and blood pressure checks (still fine). Then when she came to listen to his baby brother, he became much more interested, and he leant RIGHT over staring at the doppler, as if he was expecting to see his baby right under it ;) We talk about the baby lots, and when he heard the heart beat, we drew the parallel to when he can feel his own heart beating, but I think his understanding is very limited right now. It took the midwife a while to get a good listen on the heartbeat because he kept shifting around, but eventually she managed it :) She asked if we knew whether it was a boy or a girl, and I said, "yes it's another boy", and she said "Wow, you're well and truly outnumbered now aren't you?" "Yep, and no chance of catching up now, there's no way I'm having six!" I replied. Anyway, baby boy is apparently head down (and reading my notes, apparently he was at 25 weeks as well!), and measuring bang on target at 29cm.
On other news, the kitchen is now almost completely done. The walls have now had sufficient coats on to look even, which was 3 on the magnolia, and 2 on the cappucino wall. Glossing done, including a new shiny coat on the radiator (amazing how much better it looks for a new coat of paint!!). I've not cut in on the edges well though, and while it looks ok from the head on angle, when you get closer it looks awful :( So I think I'm going to mask it off and re-do the edges. Then will come getting all the painting equipment out of the kitchen, pulling up the masking tape and newspaper off the floor and cleaning up any stray splashes (of water soluble paint - the gloss was well contained!!) Then just the table to await on Saturday morning!
One last bit of news, was that we've tried Robert without pull ups overnight. He was leaking through them and leaving wet patches on his bed anyway, and damp pyjamas, so we thought we'd try and see if the sensation of being REALLY wet would help him. The first three nights we did as normal, just without pull ups. He still wet the bed every night. The next night we decided to wake him when we went to bed and got him to go for a wee, which, despite being forewarned before bedtime, took a long time, as he had a MASSIVE tantrum and refused to do anything. Eventually we think he did one. He went back to bed, and he woke up in the morning with a dry bed. Then last night we did the same as the night before. Only he had already wet the bed when we went to get him up. He was fast asleep and hadn't even noticed he'd wet the bed, so I think he'll be going back in pull ups again :( (And making sure that they're on straight, that his willy is pointing down, and try and avoid any leakages). It's a pain that he is a big 4 year old - the size 6s do fit on him, but before we would put them up a size if they leaked, but being a size 6 there is no larger size, unless we start going onto the "night time pants" which are pull ups for older kids - and marked up in price accordingly. Anyhow, I'm sure he'll get there some time... I just can't see when!
Something that might work for Robert is nappies instead of pull-ups. Pull-ups are way less absorbent than regular nappies. We use size 6 ultra-dry nappies on Nathan and Benjamin at night, and they've never leaked ever. Nathan is 5, although Robert is probably bigger than him! :) It's hard figuring out when and how to do the getting-rid-of-night-nappies thing. I read that a tip is when their nappies are dry in the morning, they are ready to go without them at night. If he's wetting so heavily that he's leaking onto the bed, maybe he isn't ready yet.
ReplyDeleteMatthew is 6.5 and has been out of night nappies for a year, mainly because he outgrew them physically. I too was wondering about night time pants - crazy expensive! We gave it a go like you have, and he wet the bed for many nights running. If we took him to the loo at our bedtime, he would still wet the bed at around 4am. I thought we were doomed until he suddenly had a random dry night! Then it eventually became about 50% of the time he would wake dry (for MONTHS, it didn't improve much more than that). We just got used to washing his bedding every morning and re-making the bed at bedtime.
He still wets the bed sometimes. Neil takes him to the loo every night around 11pm, and for the most part that fixes it. Twice this past week he has wet the bed before we had chance to take him to the loo, and one of those nights he wet it again in the small hours of the morning! :/
When we take him to the loo, we just pick him up and carry him there, sit him on it and then pick him up and carry him back. He has his eyes closed the whole time and doesn't ever really come round properly. My parents used to do the same with my brother - he never really woke up. Try not to wake him up when you take him, that might make for less tantrums - or if it's easier taking him to sit on a potty near the bed might be less disturbing for him. If he comes round a bit we just softly say, "We're just going for a wee, lovey..." and don't really engage in conversation with him.
I think you could persevere (and deal with the washing that might result) or not - either way, whichever you want to do is fine. Give the non-pull-ups a try though, if he can fit into them (we use Tescos size 6 ultra-dry, they seem pretty huge!) then they should be much more absorbent for night time use than pull-ups.