To think babies have inbuilt aresehole genes?

[sailorcherries]

Lighthearted.

Due back at work on Monday and since day dot DS2 has been a brilliant sleeper. We're talking once or twice during the night until he was 2 months; from 8-4 or 9-5 until 4 months; and from 8/9-7 until now.

(DS1 is a shit sleeper, it balances out).

However, the little darling has now started falling asleep at 8, waking at 9.30ish, back asleep by 10.30ish, stirs through the night (waking us through the monitor with sleep babbling, giggling and thrashing about) and waking at 5am. One week before I go back to work. I feel like death. I'm getting about 4.5-5 hours sleep max.

Aibu to believe babies know and do this on purpose because they can be asses?

Yep, DD has successfully ruined two Christmasses now. She can sense our need for sleep, for time to organise, for a weeny bit of peace and quiet between 7pm and 7am and has woken five, six, seven, eight times a night for a fortnight around Christmas and New Year.

Yep. They're all tiny psychopaths.

And to top it off he refused a bottle at half 5, 6 and half 6 so it went down the drain before taking 3oz (out of a 7oz bottle) at 7.45 and is now asleep.

I felt so good thinking we had a routine, that'll teach me!

DS1 has been a shit sleeper for 7 years (my very first thread here). It's not fair.

This came out shortly after DD was born.

Yep. Yep. Tiny adorable little pains in the arse!!!

www.hellou.co.uk/2016/01/1brand-new-dads-brutally-honest-post-about-being-a-parent-is-going-viral-74906/

Oh yes.

Both my kids know whenever DP is working nights. Even the baby who has no concept yet of whether or not DP should be in the house.

Little shits. Oh how I miss just having a 5yo so I could safely have a glass of wine when DP was on a night shift.

I took my then 8 year old DS to see Boss Baby, a film about a scheming baby that manipulates the parents and monopolises their attention, seen from the perspective of its older brother.

DS felt this was the story of his life ( DD is about 4 years younger and he felt very usurped). He could however laugh about it with me over lunch and talk about what resonated with him.

He was amused by the exhausted parents collapsing asleep after running round after the baby, he felt that was very true to life.

I don't know what happened to mine, but he's definitely broken. Was sleeping through 19.00 - 00.30 (questionable levels of sleep after this first feed), but now babbling away, biting and crying, all whilst yawning his head off and rubbing his eyes.

Yes my eldest (6) loved boss baby for the same reasons... They can smell it - your need for sleep, your need to sit down and eat - our need for a little me time - and they shit all over it (in the nicest possible way). Good job they're cute.

Rebecca, that link made me laugh so hard!

Neither of my two were/are good sleepers. Dd1 didn't sleep tbrough until she was 2.5. Dd2 is 11 months and refusing to sleep through too. Last night, she was up for 1.5 hours chatting. Attempts to get her to sleep were rewarded with slaps to the face!

Yep, dd (6mo) has always needed me to settle her and usually woke 3 times before staying down. A few weeks ago she started staying asleep first time. I got over confident and signed up for an evening class starting next week. Suddenly she's wakeful again. DH is just going to have to deal with it once a week!

Mine is a terrible sleeper. Was brilliant until 12 months and has since then been shocking.

I'm now pregnant with twins. I'm officially fucked.

Yanbu. At all. I sometimes think my one year old is a touch evil. But then he cuddles me and smiles and I change my mind - which is probably why he does it.

Good luck going back to work.

I think they pick up on the nights your really really need to be on top form the next day as the optimum night for wake ups. They just sense it.

LTB(aby)

YANBU. DD2 had been pretty reasonable at night and slept through from about 6pm-6am from about 8 months. I went back to work when she was 1. She seems to have sensed this and now seems to want to wake every night for about 3 hours between 12-3am-ish. Why? Why?!?

She is at least still better than DD1 who was a freakin' nightmare with sleep, and was still regularly up 2-4 times a night for an hour or more at 1 years old.

DS never slept for more than an hour 3 or 4 times out of every 24 hours until he was 6 months. After that, he never disturbed my sleep again until he turned 18 years old and started going out late!

DD on the other hand slept through from 9 until 6 from being 3 weeks old. Smug little old me got the shock of her life when DD turned 18 months old and started waking me up every night, several times and I never got another night undisturbed until she became a teenager!

Teething?

DD has a "mummy is eating" radar. Even when I'm hiding behind a door. She knows. She always knows.

Oh god yes! Dd1 was the decoy dd2 is the real thing! (However dd1 was simply biding her time until age 5+ but that's a whole other story)

Ds2 always knew when I was eating. Didn't matter if I was about to eat at 6pm, 7pm or bloody 10:30pm- as soon as the first folk full was about to touch my lips he would wake for a feed (bf). I don't know how he did it? The first week we laughed at it, by the third week I had baby in one arm feeding, and fork in the other feeding me.