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  1. When they don’t sleep…

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Hi Pim,

    I feel your pain. We have kids around the same age. Mine are 5 1/2, 3 1/2 and 27 days old, so similar world.

    Both of my kids are reasonable but not great sleepers. They'll both wake up 2-3 times a night. Unfortunately it isn't the same times, and my elder son is a very early riser (4am!). The bigger issue is that I have personally always had problems sleeping, so whilst it may only take five minutes to get my daughter back to sleep at 12:30, that is then me awake for three hours. Finally I'll get back to sleep just in time for my son to wake up and start turning the light on and off and explaining dinosaurs to me at length until I crack and start making the coffee.

    Strangely we seem to be working it out now just as the newborn arrived. I am quite well slept! The secret was to get a bunk bed. The bunk bed is blue and we have told the children that it is magic, because a wizard put a spell on it to help them sleep. Weirdly, this story was convincing, or the mere fact of being in a bunk bed means that they do both sleep. There is a spare bed in their room which I sometimes sleep on if I am feeling lazy and really want a full night's sleep (I am in charge of the older two children at night whereas my wife has the newborn). That's not good parenting but it has helped! The bunk / spare bed combination basically cut out most of the midnight wake ups. Then when my son starts on about vikings and football teams at 4am I just put my head between two pillows and try to zone it out. At some point he gives up and starts looking at picture books or hassling his sister.

    Well first of all: congrats with the youngest addition to your family. Those first months are exciting and terrifying all at the same time. It’s very fun to read how all things go so similar between a British and a Dutch a family and that we have to deal with the same kind of things. It’s also comforting to know that another Organissimo member is suffering from the same kind of sleepless nights as me ;)

    The magic bed: similar story here just slightly different. There was a time when I ‘closed of all walls and windows’ with my magic hands’ so the room was safe and no bad men could enter. I could just see me oldest sons face go from tense to relaxed. It’s funny how kids could believe in that kind of stuff is blindly. Me and my wife also ‘divided the burden’. I did the first part of the night, my wife the second. I took care of the oldest while my wife took care of the baby. The only thing we don’t have is that spare bed in their room because there’s not enough space but I understand your choice. I do sleep on a mattress next to my oldest when he is sick (I was never, never sick until we had kids since when I had stomach flu 4 times!!!)

    And of course the fact that on a certain moment in the middle of the night your kids are back asleep again while you’re looking at the ceiling till the sun comes up. Morning time of the youngest is now 4:30 am. But I am in more luck with my oldest who mostly wakes up around 6:30. And then the endless talking haha very recognizable again. Fortunately they fully accept when we put off Paw Patrol and put on a John Coltrane record.

    They are the most cherished little things I have. But man I miss my full sleeping nights!

  2. When they don’t sleep…

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    9 hours ago, rostasi said:

    Fussy baby at night.

    Haha thanks but no advice needed. After 4 years I know all the tips, advices, programs etc. It’s even more frustrating when people are giving you ‘good advice’ while you know that doesn’t work or you have tried it already ten times. Rostasi this not a sneer to you or anything I appreciate your reply. It’s just that we have tried everything and I am pretty sure I doesn’t really have to do anything with our approach as parents.

    Kids could just be so different and with some of them nothing seem to work. Our 2 boys are so different and they get the same upbringing. My oldest nephew was a good sleeper, the other two terrible sleepers. My oldest niece was a bad sleeper, her sister never had problems. It’s the same with eating. My oldest didn’t want to eat vegetables but ate most kind of fruit. And my youngest eats almost all vegetables but bananas are the only fruit we could get him. Different personality :)

    5 hours ago, ejp626 said:

    My son wasn't too bad a sleeper when a baby, but he had the night terrors for probably close to six months, maybe even closer to a year when he was 3 or 4.  I usually had to lie on the floor near his bed -- for hours -- in order to get him calm enough to get back to sleep.  I don't miss those days... 

    Oh yes night terrors. Such a weird phenomenon. It took a while before me and my wife knew he had them because he didn’t show one of the classic symptoms: sitting up straight in bed. I wondered why he was so upset, sometimes crying an hour long repeatingly trough the night. I woke him up and that’s the dumbest thing to do because it gets worse than. When I knew it was night terrors I just lied next to him in bed gently stroking his hair for 15 minutes and then he got out of it most of the times.

  3. When they don’t sleep…

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    My oldest son, who’s now almost 5 years old was a terrible sleeper. He destroyed our sleep time for 3 years long sometimes crying full nights, waking up every hour to cry and if he did sleep he woke up at 4:30 am. I remember feeling quite desperate at times and was sometimes so tired at work that I had trouble keeping attention during meetings at work, losing focus while teaching. I was tired for 3 years. Now that he’s older everything got better. He did have night terrors once in a while but that seems get better as well. 

    My youngest, he was a different story. He’s two years old now. We only had a little trouble a few times with sleeping with him and that was mostly when he was sick or when he got his teeth. But now for over a  month long now: hells back 😩😫 going to bed= crying for hours. Wake up time: 4:30 every morning and refusing to sleep any further. And now: waking up in the middle of the night….

    I need your comfort guys. Please share your horror sleepless night stories. I don’t want to hear any succes stories, just people who felt a lot of pity for themselves, like I do. 
     

    sleep is one underestimated pleasure.

  8. Blue Note's TONE POET series.

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    I don't do vinyl upgrades as well except for the 75th anniversary series. Those really sound crappy sometimes. I don't need to buy Tina Brooks' True Blue nor Jackie McLean's Let Freedom Ring as I own perfect other versions of them. But I did sell my Hutcherson's Happenings and Joe Henderson's Mode For Joe to buy them in the new classic series.

  9. Blue Note's TONE POET series.

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Joe Harley said:

    What was stated: "I might believe that these are Joe's favorites but I'm sure this rule is forcing Joe to skip some records that he normally wouldn't." My not wanting to endlessly repeat the same great titles we did at MMJ over and over again has nothing to do with my choice of titles for the Tone Poet program. I love all of those titles we did at MMJ. And I love what we are doing now.  There are SO many great titles that have yet to be reissued. And remember, we draw from the whole family of Blue Note labels, including Pacific Jazz, UA, World Pacific, Transition, Capitol and many more. Can we please everyone, all the time? No. But this is the most successful vinyl reissue program in the history of the label. We appear to be pleasing quite a few.

    I am really enjoying the reissue series and I like the diversity in the program which makes it much more exciting than the rather tame Verve Acoustic Sounds series. Also glad not everything is my taste as than it would become a very expensive habit collecting those TP’s. I do pity the fact that all the MMJ’s are skipped as those limited and extremely expensive releases aren’t quite really avaible to most people. 

  11. Blue Note's TONE POET series.

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    The only one I had problems with was the Pepper/Baker record. Blue Notes explanation that there was nothing wrong with it and people should adjust their equipment made me laugh. I sent it back and didn’t bother for a replacement. But all of the other TP’s I enjoy very much. My best sounding must be Bobby Hutchersons Oblique 

  12. Blue Note's TONE POET series.

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by Pim

    On 11/18/2023 at 8:38 AM, Clunky said:

    I'm still waiting on New Soil. I'll probably pick up two or three from this list.. Action, action / Medina/ Dialogue 

    Exactly the ones I will get. I would have got Total Eclipse and Let Freedom Ring as well if I did not already have a copy. For me personally not the most interesting list but I understand that to some others it's great. I really don't see the point of two very average Byrd releases but that's me....

    Was hoping for Matador and glad I did buy Hutcherson's Patterns and Lee Morgan's Tom Cat and The Gigolo last year. Is the 'I will not do any MMJ title again' philosophy still intact?

  20. Archie Shepp

    in Artists

    Posted

    1 hour ago, felser said:

    Saw him with Beaver Harris, Dave Burrell, Cameron Brown, and Charles Majid Greenlea at the Empty Foxhole Cafe in mid-70's.  Unforgettable, especially "African Drum Suite".  Harris was a monster live.

    That's the Montreux group right? On Freedom records? Those are among my favorite Shepp records. I was so fortunate to see him at the Bimhuis in 2010. Though not really comparable to his 60's and 70's work it was an unforgettable experience.

  24. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by Pim

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    This German cd pressing must be the worst cd sounding I have. Is it the pressing or the recording? The distortian is almost unbearable at times. It's insanely good though. 

    Cecil Bridgewater, Enrico Rava, Charles Sullivan, Sonny Fortune, Carlos Ward, Roland Alexander, John Stubblefield, Hamiet Bluiett, Cecil McBee and the great Roy Brooks....

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