How to stay awake during night feeds part 2, sleepy mice need not apply

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Hello!
Carrying on are good work from the first thread , how do we keep are selfs awake? By chatting to each other sleepy heads!

Hello Sarita lovely to meet you, and lovely to hear about the prems doing so well!
Mrsn great to hear that sleep has been had.
Marbles I often wonder the same, even though Kid sleeps on me. He's getting less polite about the early warning system though!
Heffalump I hope the sofa is comfortable. When we moved house we got a new sofa and it is great for afternoon naps.
Doing better tonight here - 12 and 3 for fairly brisk feeds. We were out quite a long time yesterday and it seems to have tired him out. It was our last nct class and he stole the show in his jolly roger bandana bib!

Feed 2 here, feeling the lack of sleep but at least she just did 3 hours again.

Hi sarita hope it is not too weird having lots of new people on the thread!

Good luck with getting some sleep everyone...

Squishy I'm sorry you're having a tough patch. I hope it gets better really quickly for you. In the meantime hopefully all the lovely people on ths thread will help keep you sane, they do me!
Susie fingers crossed...

Morning everyone, first feed here. Another relatively 'good' night for Minipop, he's slept from 11pm with just a minor resettle needed at about 2am when I had a coughing fit & think I may have disturbed him.

sarita yay you're back glad you're all ok & periwinkle is doing well. Minipop is 19 weeks actual & over 13lbs,

I am behind on reading the posts again, but will catch up now. And seriously impressed with your reply susieloo :) morning did you type that on a phone?

Yay for your sleep heffalump :) I hope it continues!

Mrsn hope little one continues to sleep its horrible when they don't settle during the day, makes it impossible to get anything done.

Sending some sleep dust your way xx

Fingers crossed for 7am susieloo that's our aim too, but Mimipop refused to burp so I give it an hours tops!

rights, back off to bed now.

Good kick everyone. Not long to go until another night shift is over - you are all amazing :)

Sarita glad it's all going well, I do get the being too tired to post though!

Well first feed of the night here I've just had the most deeeeelishuss 5 hour stretch of sleep, it was amazing

Then I woke up. Couldn't hear DS breathing in his crib next to me, so panicked and picked him up

He's most disgruntled with me and is now peering up at my phone trying to "read" Mumsnet instead of feeding!!!

I think if I hasn't picked him up he'd have slept a fair bit longer as he definitely isn't hungry - he's just playing now

But still, five lovely hours

Babylon how truly amazing! So it can be done!!
I have checked for breathing before now and woken Kid up. He's never best pleased!
Glad to see that Your DS has taste and is onto mumsnet already though...

After our great start to the night, we were up again at 3.30 and then didn't settle in the cot again; fine in my arms, not in cot. Gave up at 5; co-sleeping til morning. Zzzzzzzz

Still not great nights from DS here. He was having a scream fest and cluster feeding all afternoon evening, and missed his evening nap, so he went to bed at 11, then up at 1:30 and 4:30

He has learnt how to shriek as well, it is not fun.

Hello sarita! so nice to "see" you back and hear about miss periwinkle.

Squish sorry you are feeling down it is so tough when it all seems so relentless, and all you want is some bloody sleep! I had a bit of a weepy sesh myself this afternoon, as I couldn't put DS down for ages, the screaming was becoming intolerable and of course it was pissing it down outside which never does anything for one's mood. When DH rang to say he was coming home, I cried on the phone to him and said he needed to come take this baby off me - he uncharacteristically arrived home with a gorgeous bunch of flowers! I never get flowers from DH!

High point yesterday was DS' check up at the prem clinic - the Dr was really pleased with his progress and said there don't appear to be any after effects of his prematurity. DS was very smiley and jolly and charmed the dr and physiotherapist suck up. Sadly the Dr didn't note any of the measurements he took in DS' red book, which is a shame as I'd like to know how long he is - but he is now 14lb 6oz at 24 weeks, 16 weeks corrected.

Today is going to be a long day - I'm going to the "Stitching and knitting show" at Ally Pally with a friend, but this means driving from South London to Paddington to pick her up, then on to Ally Pally, then afterwards to another friend's in High Barnet, which is about as far away from me as you can get and still be in London fingers crossed DS doesn't decide to scream the whole time...

Have a good Friday everyone

3rd feed of the night and I'm still a Bit twitchy about the possibility we will have to get up in a minute, tonight hasn't been as bad as the last couple of nights though but still feeling the lack of sleep, he does seem to have gone back to two hour naps in the day so I might try for a nap today.

Dp's alarm going off in an hour and twenty and that just isn't long enough, need more sleep!!!!

I'm up for round 3 with little squishy she had only been asleep for an hour since the end of her last feed when she started crying again.

Tea that's fabulous news about the check. Will you have any more? We have one next Tuesday, the first since discharge from NNU. (I think our DSs are pretty much the same level of premness, I think you said he was 31+5? Kid was 31+4.)
Hope you have a fab day out and baby tea enjoys it quietly!

We are off to a feeding support group today as feeding has now ground almost to a halt. And as the dr was worse than useless... Grrr... Also might try and make story time at local library as something a bit different.

Susie and squishy sending your LOs sleep vibes.

babylon that's great, 5 hours is amazing I hope it becomes regular for you

squishy you're doing fab, it won't be like this forever and sleep will return. Hope you are able to get some rest today.

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tea great news about your check up, all those exhausting night feeds are paying off :) Hope you enjoy your day out.

We finally came up to bed just after 4, strangely enough I don't feel too exhausted, I got a few hours on the sofa (old but comfy!) before she woke, fed her and carried her up to her crib where she managed to stay asleep for another hour & a half Woken by a pooey nappy and now fed & asleep on me. Want to put her back as DD1 will be up any minute & I've been trying to make sure baby lump is safely back in her crib each nothing before DD1 wants her morning snuggles in our bed. (Can hear her now blowing raspberries in her bedroom and saying "pooh, smelly" so a bit apprehensive of what I may find this morning!).

Update: Noooooo cbeebies isn't working that usually buys me at least another half hour in bed! baby awake again now too...it was all going so well!

Hope everyone has a restful day, see you tonight :)

Oooh babylon I am green with envy about your five hours!
My little grunting piglet went to sleep at 4 and then did a huge poo and woke himself up so am feeding now and then it will be time to get up
My mil is coming this morning so I can go to the gym but maybe I'll just go to sleep instead!

small no contest surely?! :)

Yay and feed no 2 in progress!!!

babylon is Ewan the secret??!

Well I think little man must have tired himself out yesterday because we went 10:30-2 then half 3-half 7!! He must have been so hungry when he woke up that he took his milk too quickly and was sick all over himself - he didn't even have time to come off the boob

I think Ewan is my saviour!!!!

Tomorrow night will be the big test when I have my DS at 5.5 months and DNephew at 7 weeks

DH away on a lads weekend and both DDs here too!!
Should be fun - I hope Ewan is up to it!!!

It sounds like Ewan might need to multitask!

Seriously of Babylon's fantastic night, but pleased for you And MrsN, sounded like you had a good night too. Missmarbles has been really greedy and puked around my boob before It doesn't bother her though! She either keeps going, therefore swallows it back, or it spurts out the side and she keeps going; either way she keeps feeding!

Very sweet of your DH with the flowers, Tea Good news about your premmie check, too. Hope yours goes well too, Goat. We were discharged at the 8 month check with DD1.

Which did you choose, Small, gym or sleep? I know which I'd have gone for If it was sleep, did you get some?

Can't wait for Ewan to arrive Missmarbles went down at 8.30, woke up at 9 and had another feed, then fell asleep in my arms. I put her back in the cot at 9.50 and really hoping for a nice long stint, and sensible settling after it.

Sending out the Sleepy Mice