To think babies should be more considerate..

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....and not wake their mothers up four times in six hours especially when the mother only got 5 hours of broken sleep the night before too....

very otherwise adorable baby available for night time lease

Babies are little assholes. They only get away with it because they're cute.

And he's just woken up for the fifth time. I fear my head may explode!!!

at babies being assholes!!

Yup, sadistic little sods who only do it to annoy and be difficult

snuggles her baby's head as he dozes against her chest

Might try putting him back in his cot now, wish me luck!

I made the mistake if putting him back in his cot 4 times before so am now considering just letting him stay in bed with me. He's currently being sweet and smiling at me and playing with my fingers so I'm mellowing towards him...

Mine has been up 3-4 times every night for the past 3 weeks after previously STTN. I now have a stinking cold and she's still at it. And she is scared of the noise of me blowing my nose (starts screaming whenever I do it). So currently feeding for the 3rd time tonight dripping snot on her grobag. I'm wholeheartedly with you OP.

I am on night 5 with new DS. Little git won't settle. We'd been doing so well aswell!! Feeling everyone's pain x

Mine used to STTN too but that was about 8 weeks ago now - it's just a distant memory....

I'm up too and would definitely leave mine out with the recycling if she was even a smidgen less cute. I'm not even doing scary sneezes! Her own wind is sad enough apparently. Why would you design a creature that doesn't know how to fart but constantly guzzles food?

Mine's on feed 2. I'd mind less if he wasn't 17 months. Doesn't he care that I've got to be up an hour before him to get ready for work? Cute is definitely a survival strategy.

Mine is 3. That's years, not months.

The novelty is beginning to wear off slightly. The cuteness not so much. Especially when she mumbles at 4am "need to snuggle on your knee, Mummy".

I need to persuade her that it would be quite ok to wander in and climb in beside me instead of summoning me with a yell to come to her room.

I haven't yet gone to sleep, apart from 17 minutes between 3am and 3:17 am. This is because I posted elsewhere earlier in the evening that she was a great sleeper. She's a week old and feeding far too painful to drift off to sleep. Been feeding about every half hour for the last twenty hours. Fuck this.

YADNBU! Mine is 13 weeks old, on feed 5 of the night and currently playing Stretch Armstrong on my boob...while smiling up at me. Evil geniuses the lot of them, plotting our demise through sleep deprivation and all round cuteness!

Going to try another attempt to put down now. Got about an hour before ds2 gets up

Mine is 17 months old and has decided he doesn't need to sleep through the night anymore. I am exhausted. Trying to stop bf too but at four am it's the easiest option.

8 month old DS has a vomiting bug or similar. He's asleep and angelic now; I'm shovelling yet more bed clothes in the washing machine.

It's somehow worse when they're bf. I want to shout Ungrateful Sod! I MADE that for you and now youve chucked it up on MY BED that you sleep in every night- From now on you make your own milk or are sick on your own bed. Seems fair.

Same here, up after giving breastfeed and now a bottle. He is sleeping as he drinks and will cry the second I put him in his moses basket! It's not fair - dam it - I am tired!!

Mine is 3 years too, and scuttles into our bed Every. Single. Night. I don't even notice anymore, he's just there when I wake in the morning. I keep thinking that I should try and stop him, but in all honesty I really don't mind.

Buy a bloody huge kingsize bed, then comfort yourself with the thought that one day they'll be able to find their own way into it without disturbing you!

My 2 aged 2 and 3 (years!) operate a strict tag team strategy of "one of us must keep mummy company in the middle of the night" very considerate. It means they each get a full nights sleep occasionally but they are can still check on me during the night.
Apart from that magical night in October 2013 when there must have been a miscommunication and they both thought it was the other ones turn. Oh that magical night! :-P

Hello. Joining as misery loves company. Think we have hit the four month sleep regression here, we've barely had a couple of hours sleep in succession all week. Thank god we're on holiday so my husband is here in the day so I can catch up in sleep.

I'm back. Fed AGAIN and now trying to fart. Him not me.nhaha.

I'm back too, still snotty and feeding again. Maybe she thinks that the 2 hrs she just let me sleep was being considerate. This had better not be up for the day.

Some of the other posts here are truly terrifying. My GP said the other day that I will never sleep the same again. AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!

Hi everyone!! My previously waking up once per night 4 month old is now up at least 5 times. Minimum. I've aged ten years and almost shaved my head the other night because I was just too tired to contemplate washing it the next day, after milk had been regurgitated into it. Plus my toddler likes to come in just as we are dropping off after the 05:00 feed. I'm EBF and thankfully we have a spare room so husband has been moved to guest room so I can co sleep with this little milk crazed terror while this 4 month sleep lunacy is happening.
As everyone above has said, it's a good job they are so adorable. During the day he is a dream so I am letting him off.

This is making me feel a lot better aboit the second feed in 6.5 hrs. That said I still onlyhalf sleep as dd (11 weeeks) still wont go anywhere near a cot and sleeps with her face wedged into my armpit, wakes up the min I try to move away

Hi. Mine is 3 years 9 months. Sleeps well till about 4.30am. Then cones to my bed. Falls asleep. Breathes. I do not fall asleep or I do for 30 mins before I need to get up. So everyday i'm knackered or late.

It's still breathing!!! AAAARRRGH.