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Can anyone recommend a travel cot or tell me what to look out for in one? Cheers.

I've been thinking DS is waking a lot at night, and last night I managed to look at my watch each time and actually remember what I saw in the morning and have decided its getting a bit ridiculous! He went to sleep about 9pm ish, I went to  bed at 11ish when he woke for a feed, then he woke at 2am, 4.30am, and 7am he was awake for the day.  He seems to be on a pretty regular pattern of waking every 2 1/2 hours, ie, sleeping for 2 hours waking for a feed, sleeping another 2 hours, waking and feeding again... rinse and repeat till morning! I'm knackered!  He also has a 2 hour nap during the day (about 12 ish) ...

I dont really want to night wean him (sometimes he does seem to drink a lot and actually need/want the milk, while other wakings do seem more for the comfort, but how do i tell which is which?) but I would like more then 2 hours sleep in a row sometime soon! Is this normal for a co-sleeper?  DH thinks its because DS can smell the milk with me sleeping next to him, or as he put it  - "if I had a kebab next to me in bed I'd wake up for a quick snack pretty often too!"  Does anyone have any suggestions for getting him to stay asleep for longer? are there any good books that could help us (and support co-sleeping and not just methods for night-weaning)

Any help/advice/ideas/sypmathy gratefully accepted :-)

Like the Amby one. Does anyone use one? What do people think of them? I think the Moffii one is gorgeous but I' m a bit concerned about the mattress. I get the feeling they'd be quite soft which might not be very good in terms of SIDS and things? Does anyone know about what research has been done on them? Also do they really last til the baby is approx 1 year? Are they really that transportable? Do i have any more questions...?! lol!
Typically, Hubs has seen them and liked them after we've bought a moses basket and delabelled and washed it so it can't be returned (and I KNOW I showed him the Amby one before!!)

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I've just measured myself for the Coorie sling and I'm 67cm which would make me a size 4 (just!), only I'm 35 weeks pregnant and I'm not sure if this is influencing the sizing (the tape measure passes over the top of my bump). I'm a size 12 normally, do you think a size 4 is too big or just right?



TIA!

What happens to the baby in between the time when he's too old to sleep in a moses basket (you're not supposed to use them when he can sit unassisted, right? What if that comes at say 4 months?) and when he's old enough to sleep in a different room to you (6 months according to FSIDS)? Does he spend 2 months sleeping on the floor, in the bath, on the windowsill?! There's no way we can fit his cot in our room! Co-sleeping isn't an option either with us bed-hogging parents!

Thank God for the interwebs being my surrogate mom for me to ask dumb questions of! Thank you!

Has anyone used one? I bought one from Asda earlier and can't find any reviews for it. It's this one:

http://www.redkitebaby.co.uk/www.r…

I'm nearly at the stage of nursery preparation where I need to actually work out what I've got and what I need and I'm having a mild panic about bedding. Little sproglet will be sleeping in a moses basket to begin with and I'm sure I think I know that tiny babies can't have sheets and things for fear of suffocation, but I can't find any useful advice online. And surely they must need something or they'd get cold?! Is it just duvets they shouldn't have? Help!

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Does anyone have an experience with either the Zooper twist of the Zooper Hula strollers?

They seem to tick all my boxes but can't find many reviews online.

Thanks in advance!

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anyone used a nasal aspirator? are they any help/good?

theo is 10 weeks now but has been showing signs of teething since day 1 and now he appears to be actually cutting his firts tooth, cue much upset and angst! has anyone been in this situation? what did you do? any tips? am loathe to give him anything at all with him being so young so more looking at ways to soothe him (and general sympathy!) he loves to chew on stuff, fingers mainly, but gets much frustrated as he doesnt yet have the motor skills to hold anything in his mouth, poor baby!