AIBU to enjoy getting up at night to feed my baby?

[PorkPieandPickle]

All my antenatal/baby group friends with babies of a similar age (dd is 6 weeks) moan about it, but I don't mind being tired. They are all expressing so their DH's can do a night feed at the weekend. DH has been eager to try this too, so I expressed this week and he did last night... I hated it :(

I didn't like not responding myself when dd cried, and my boobs were doing that tingly thing responding to her crying. I was awake for about half an hour after that anyway listening to DH put lights on, boil kettle and dd occasionally whimpering while waiting. By 6am my boobs were solid and sore and keeping me awake, and by 7am I was in the kitchen sterilising my pump with milk literally pouring out my boobs all over the kitchen floor.

Pumped to ease pain, went back to bed as dd still asleep, but just lay waiting for her to wake up, as I hadn't cuddled her since 11pm and missed her warm little body. Loved feeding her again this morning!! Everyone else seems to think this makes for an ace night :S I think I slept less, I missed dd and I need to clean the kitchen floor and change the bed sheets!!! Am I weird? WIBU to tell DH I don't actually want to do this again?

I made a bedside cot - you can look up guidelines for safe co sleeping but they are common sense really. Make sure baby can't fall off the bed, get entangled in covers, sheets or pillows or any cords from blinds/curtains etc, don't do it on a soft surface like on top of the duvet or on a waterbed, and make sure they aren't covered by heavy covers which could cause them to overheat. And don't do it if you are under the influence of any drugs which make you drowsy like alcohol or antihistamines (which you can't take when BF anyway I think) Generally breastfeeding mothers find that they form a protective "C" shape around the baby to stop them wriggling up or down.

YANBU. Baby day's don't last forever, though it might feel like they do. Enjoy every aspect of them. My youngest is four, and I'm very jealous.

YANBU, my DS is 5 months now and still wakes for feeds in the night. I'm tired but I love snuggling him and feeding him when it's dark, quiet and calm.
My DH doesn't feel like he misses out. He always does bathtime whilst I have a drink or watch a soap. This is his special time to bond at the moment.
By not waking in the night it means that, when it's not a work night, he can stay up later with DS or take him down in the morning so I can have a little snooze.
All 3 of us are quite happy with our arrangement

It's not just of you BF. I FF from early on and I still found it difficult to let DH do the 2am feed. When I was really shattered it was great that he'd to and do it but mostly I'd still be awake listening anyway and I really wanted the snuggly cuddles even though it took 90 mins to feed him and settle him back.

Maybe keep doing the middle of the night feeds but see if there's another one your DH could do instead if he wants to. It is nice to give dad's the chance to feed the baby too if possible.

I hated night feeds with ds1, but now, with ds2, I know they are gone in the blink of an eye and I cherish each one. He's 12 weeks already . I love snuggling him when it's only us awake.

I loved night feeds when mine were small , when my dd was born channel 4 used to show Tour de France highlights in the middle of the night and that's how me and DH got so interested in road cycling !

I don't mind DS2's night feeds. Usually he has on per night. 2 I can cope with. 3 is taking the micky. He's 9m and quite distractable in the day, so it can be quite satisfying having a long unbroken feed. Both DSs have been whinge, feed, doze types so quite easy despite the chunk of sleep lost.

DS1 woke more per night (probably caused by milk allergy with hindsight) and I mentally found it harder because of the pressure that he "should" have been sleeping through. With DS2 I've accepted it much better and they don't bother me.

Oooh love them here too. Did lots last night for a teething toddler and still love them. Can do them with my eyes shut though:)

Yanbu I loved getting up to feed my dd during the night, it was the only time in the early weeks we got to be on our own, enjoy it

Of course YANBU. If you don't know it, there's a tender little poem by the Irish poet Eavan Boland called 'Night Feed' in the collection of the same name.

YANBU I woke up for 11pm, 3am and 5am for 14 weeks with DD until she started sleeping through. It w a s always a special time, like someone said no fanfare just breast and cuddles. Enjoy it, it might not last long.

Be warned Six weeks is still early days...