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To be pissed off that people keep making comments about my baby's routine?.. Making out I'm lazy

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Alwayssearching · 24/05/2018 14:46

So 11 week old goes to bed 9pm.. Wakes at 7 for bottle (sometimes 6) falls asleep with the feed. Sleeps till 10-11am. Throughout the day goes two hours between bottles. And maybe has 4x20 min naps. Unless in car or pram when motion makes her sleep. But wakes as soon as stops.
She's alert and loves me playing with her.
When she sleeps till 10-11 I get up around 9 and get most of the stuff done round the house. There has been the odd one when I've laid in bed till she wakes, if not much needs doing.
People keep saying it's lazy blah blah. But I spend 95% of the time when she's awake playing etc or cuddles... There may bethe odd, quick load of laundry onceds is home from sch. Or wash up thro tee day etc.
I take her out for fresh air every day without fail. Even if just round block or to tesco.
It's getting me down. Today I tried to keep her awake after 7am bottle and she was so miserable and wanted to sleep by 7.50 am

Yes it's a long sleep she has but its not so I can be lazy :( it's a routine she's gotten herself into

Why do people have to judge

OP posts:
rallytog1 · 24/05/2018 18:20

It sounds amazing. Make the most of it!!

QuackPorridgeBacon · 24/05/2018 18:24

SleepingStandingUp she came of any reflux meds (omeprazole) about a year ago. She was on high cal milk. 1cal per 1ml but due to a few bugs one after the other and then chicken pox her tummy has gotten a bt angry at milk. Now she is back on the powder stuff and we haven’t been able to get her back off it. Her swallow is ok but she refuses to eat. Was doing so well, mainly with yoghurts eating two a day and some Ella’s Kitchen, now she won’t touch a thing then yoghurts were banned. I’m hoping when she is older and can communicate better we can talk her through chewing etc. I’m sure we’ll get there eventually. And we are trying for number three, we’re not wise lol

HellenaHandbasket · 24/05/2018 18:28

It doesn't sound lazy per se, but writing off half the day every day sounds really restrictive.

EssentialHummus · 24/05/2018 18:31

Sounds fine to me, but my very sleepy DD suddenly had a proverbial rocket up her bum after the 4-month sleep regression, so fingers crossed you get through it better than we did!

Steeley113 · 24/05/2018 18:34

TBH staying in bed half the day, every day when your baby sleeps through is a bit lazy... my 3rd DC is a sleeper, sleeps through at 7 weeks so I’m not jealous, I just couldn’t imagine sleeping that much when there’s things to do.

QuackPorridgeBacon · 24/05/2018 18:35

Steeley113 sleeping isntead of being knackered while also getting things done, is not lazy.

SoyDora · 24/05/2018 18:35

She didn’t say she stays in bed half the day. She says she gets up and does chores.

QuackPorridgeBacon · 24/05/2018 18:36

Also, you have three so can’t exactly sleep when baby does. Not the same at all.

Steeley113 · 24/05/2018 18:37

Why is she knackered if the baby sleeps through? I’ve got 3 aged 5 and under and Im perfectly fine on 6-7 hours a night, as most would be.

SoyDora · 24/05/2018 18:38

She doesn’t stay in bed all day, she gets up and does chores!!!

Steeley113 · 24/05/2018 18:44

I just re read, fair enough9 isn’t too bad. It says she has a DS at school, is someone doing the school run for her?

BigPinkBall · 24/05/2018 18:49

My baby does exactly the same, I just don’t tell anyone because people seem to get upset that she sleeps for 14 hours and their baby wakes up multiple times per night. I also don’t tell anyone I got pregnant 2 weeks after deciding to start ttc because so many people spent years trying to get pregnant and I don’t want to rub in their faces how easily I got pregnant.

OutComeTheWolves · 24/05/2018 18:52

My first was exactly the same. The only difference being I didn't get out of bed until he'd woken up again. Sometimes I napped to, sometimes I read a book & sometimes I watched tv in bed.

It was easily the best time of my life. Enjoy it while it lasts is my advice.

Gizmo79 · 24/05/2018 18:53

I’m bloody jealous!!

CoffeeIsNotEnough · 24/05/2018 19:01

YABU to write this kind of stuff down! Babies have phases and as soon as you actually record anything good they'll change. I wonder if you get MN to delete it your baby won't notice?

I just say this because my oldest child slept really well until about three months and then I mentioned it very quietly at a baby group ...

OrangePeels · 24/05/2018 19:42

Sadly, it doesn't last so enjoy it while you can! Before you know it there won't be any daytime naps at all!

Ignore anyone who says anything nasty. She's 11 weeks old! You are supposed to sleep when she sleeps!

My DD used to sleep great on a night but she only had two very short naps in the day. I was very jealous of my friends who had swathes of time in the day whist their babies were napping. I would never have said anything though!

SleepingStandingUp · 24/05/2018 19:45

QuackPorridgeBacon we're the oppsote, will just about touch wet ie beans but full on wet like yoghurt, no chance. We just let him play and eventually he put it in his mouth again, cut them small enough so he could pop it in his mouth whole, retrieved the stuff out his mouth he couldn't swallow etc. He loves chocolate and crisps and sausage now, we let him have what he wants pretty much

sakura06 · 24/05/2018 19:59

Sounds fantastic! The people calling you lazy are jealous (and rude)! You need lots of rest too.

Luisa27 · 24/05/2018 20:01

Sounds like the perfect routine Always - two of mine were like this...it’s great.
Enjoy your baby and keep doing what you’re doing Smile

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