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AIBU?

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aibu to be upset that my baby is sleeping?

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Prusik · 07/04/2018 16:29

Ok, so perhaps an unfair title.

DS1 (15 months) slept 8-8 last night. Napped 9.30-11.30. Napped 2-4.30 (and still snooing).

DS2 (11 weeks) - mostly mirrored DS1 naps but is asleep on me.

DH stayed in bed till 11.30 and went back to bed when ds1 went up.

I've spent most of my day alone and bored waiting for someone, ANYONE to wake. What the hell is wrong with the males in my family!

For context, I had a broken night with ebf ds2. Woke up at 8 with the two boys and have been awake ever since. I feel fine. Life kinda sucks

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icantdothis2017 · 08/04/2018 13:09

A 15 month old should really be able to stay awake much longer than 1.5 hours .
His sleeping as much in 24 hours as a newborn .
I'd been asking a hv tbh

Dobbythesockelf · 08/04/2018 13:16

It looks like a lot if sleep for a 15 month to me but my dd has never really slept that much. At that age she was having a 2 hour nap in an afternoon, but then she doesn't go to sleep till 8/8:30 and is up at 7am and only recently at 3 has she been sleeping through the night. Does he sleep in the pram? At least that way you could get out of the house.

Prusik · 08/04/2018 15:15

I dream of a 12-2 nap. Or even 11-2. He's always been a heavy napper (only recently started sleeping through). I thought he'd drop naps when he started sleeping through but apparently not.

I might start a diary. He had 2 hours awake this morning. Then 2 hours over lunch. So a slight improvement on yesterday I guess. We got him up, gave lunch, played a while and after about an hour he was crying inconsolably and rolling around the floor so we put him back to bed. It's definitely tiredness and not just usual tantrum. Tbh, I am concerned but the pediatrician says he "looks fine". You know it's bad when random friends take it upon themselves to look up how much a 15 month old should be sleeping and when they say "didn't he do well" after he has spent an hour at a birthday party with no tiredness meltdown

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Prusik · 08/04/2018 15:16

He won't sleep in the pram. Plus then I'd be stuck out of the house for three hours while he naps in the pram while looking after a nearly three month old Grin the irony

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BellyBean · 08/04/2018 15:45

My 7mo sleeps 9.30-10am and 1-2.30/3. I managed to get her napping in the cot from around 11 weeks so there's hope on that front.

I'd put them both in the double buggy for morning nap and try to get out. If they don't sleep well put them down early for lunch.

They might fall asleep and you can sit on a park bench somewhere.

Prusik · 08/04/2018 19:36

Up at 4pm, back to bed at 6.30pm. tbh I think he wanted to go earlier. So fed up now

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