How to stay awake during night feeds part 3 - wishing for sleepy dust

[TeaandHobnobs]

Welcome all to a shiny new thread for moral support during night feeds, general food envy and chit chat

Second feed of the night here. Just changed BabyN nappy and she decided to projectile poop the second I had her nappy off

evil sounds like it will be an akward conversation for you about your MIL

Trying to get BabyN to have some more milk, she's not had alot but isn't that interested and I no we'll be up in an hour if she doesn't have more now

Hope you all have good nights tonight!!

Still up from my last post. My biscuits are the coconut ones, I'm sure there is a song about coconuts, but I can't figure out how it goes.

Had a brain wave, my DS always goes to sleep in the car seat, so he is in it.
So far he is awake :(
Next step is walking in around the garden.
Evil

Hi all, had a really tough day where babyfunch fed solidly from 5am with barely a moment off. We went to see family about 80 mins away and traffic on the way back was at a standstill a lot of the way (M25) and she screamed most of the way. I had fed her just before we set off and changed her but she yelled horribly - it wad awful. DM was driving and was so patient, I don't know how she coped.

On the plus aide, we got home, fed her ans put her down in her basket at 7 and went for dinner as DM had offered to babysit. Got back to find babyfunch still asleep, went to bed at half 9 and only woke at 2! She must have tired herself out with all the screaming.

I need to get her to stay awake more in the afternoons if I can so she sleeps at night...should be ok this week as it is half term so seeing lots of family who will all want to play with overstimulate her.

vicky that is a tricky mil situation, especially if DH is not onside....any idea what you plan to do?

Hi all, had a really tough day where babyfunch fed solidly from 5am with barely a moment off. We went to see family about 80 mins away and traffic on the way back was at a standstill a lot of the way (M25) and she screamed most of the way. I had fed her just before we set off and changed her but she yelled horribly - it wad awful. DM was driving and was so patient, I don't know how she coped.

On the plus aide, we got home, fed her ans put her down in her basket at 7 and went for dinner as DM had offered to babysit. Got back to find babyfunch still asleep, went to bed at half 9 and only woke at 2! She must have tired herself out with all the screaming.

I need to get her to stay awake more in the afternoons if I can so she sleeps at night...should be ok this week as it is half term so seeing lots of family who will all want to play with overstimulate her.

vicky that is a tricky mil situation, especially if DH is not onside....any idea what you plan to do?

Sorry about double post!

I think you mean evil it was evil with the mil problem x

Sooo cold tonight brrrr

Shock and horror almost ensued tonight!
Worse than not having any snacks in the house.

Our Internet connection went down.

As you can see all is now well, but an unpleasant hour while I contemplated the awfulness of being without this thread all night... I think it must be the high winds. Still a bit intermittent but fingers crossed.

Evil thst's awful about your mil. How stressful for you (and what was she thinking considering she must have brought up at least one child herself??)

Susie I love white choc and strawberry muffins! Have to say, I make fab muffins - it's the Kiwi in me.

funch that sounds exhausting. 3 week growth spurt I guess? And to have to deal with athe M25 and it's perpetual traffic jam as well!

Sorry not to reply to all individually. Kid is having a crap night - 2 hours to feed then an hour of screaming solidly - and my ability to form a coherent sentence has taken a nosedive.

I really really and randomly fancy a glass of Baileys.

Other than marking my place a couple of nights ago, I've not written on this board yet so hi everyone.

(So this is where you are evil and nervous. The Nov post natal thread is so quiet!

DS is 4 days old now and night times are horrendous! Whilst he happily sleeps through the day, as soon as I take the Moses basket upstairs at bed time he won't let me put him in it. Tonight has been the worse night so far as he's been on me since 10pm. This is despite me waking him every 2/3 hours during the day to feed. Aaaarrgghhh, I want some sleep!

2nd feed of the night in the dreaded 3-4 spot, I was lying in bed listening to babyloo starting to stir and debating getting up to express before my left boob went mad and decided I would dream feed him, he has just had a really good feed and is not awake so hopefully he will go back down until 6 or 7.

Can't believe how cold it is, I'm walking into town today to meet my mum and dad because we have a food festival on all weekend, I am very, very excited about this, loads of food vendors will be there offering little samples and loads of street food stalls, I am going to wrap babyloo up very warm and disappear off to mothercare for feeding and changing, I can't wait!!

Right first attempt at cot transfer coming up

I think this is third feed of the night but could be 4, I'm abit on the confused side at the minute

Waves at rowing [hsmile]

Argh how cold is it!!! It makes getting out of bed so much harder but I hate the heating on at night, there's nothing worse then bring hot at night but I think we might have to have it on to take the edge off.

My DP is back at work tomorrow and I'm quite gutted. I've loved him being home everyday with us

Rowing, Congratulations on your DS. That is one long feed you are doing. I will stop feeling so sorry for myself now. Once your DS falls asleep, he should sleep until morning. By contrast, my pesky DD is taking small feeds, settling back down and waking again 30 mins later. My heart sinks when I hear her start to shuffle in her Moses basket. I do try to get her to take more but you can take the horse to water etc.

Goat, good call with the Baileys. That would be delicious. I'm generally not missing booze but am madly craving a Baileys now.

Finch, that journey sounds so stressful. People travelling with newborns ought tobe able to use bus lanes and hard shoulders. My DD hates the car so I feel really guilty when we travel by car. Extra guilt today when we arrived at our destination and I realised I had not buckled her into her seat and had merely buckled the seat into the car .

Funch, damned predictive text.

evil that's really tricky if DH isn't on the same page re MIL, we have issues with mine but DH is less tolerant of her than I am! Good luck...

funch well done on surviving the journey, it's so hard when they're screaming, even though rationally you know they're safe, fed and dry!

goat glad your Internet is back, that would be a huge crisis! [hgrin]

Welcome to the newbies, and congratulations!

BabyN didn't feed particularly great and is now completely zonked so no doubt we'll be back very soon

Just done 2nd feed - had to wake BabyCat at midnight as she'd not had a full feed for over four hours, which was bloody difficult. Then we had to gripe water which took a while. This feed seems to have been more straightforward though (thank goodness).

Just got to use a bum tablet for these DAMN ITCHY HAEMORRHOIDS. [hangry] Probably TMI, but I'm so mad with my bottom I don't care. FUCK YOU BOTTOM but never literally, I'm not one of those MNers

So how long do you all wait after your baby has come off the breast and appears to be sleeping before doing the transfer? We are at ten minutes here so I am trying to work out whether to chance it now or wait a little longer.

Poor cat although your post did make me chuckle.

Missbellybutton- I put her in the crib about 10 mins post feed too. I wait in trepidation!
Does anyone else find they wake up I'm delirious, confused states jibbering rubbish. Each night I wake up rambling nonsense. A common one is that we've lost her under the duvet even though we put her in a crib!

Hi all, first feed here!! baby small woke at 2 having been fed at 11.30 so I stuck Ewan back on and he went straight back to sleep. I was so pleased with him, he has never done that before!! . Unfortunately now I think he thinks its time to get up and is rather too awake for my liking.
Sorry to hear about bad nights going on. My post is not meant to rub it in I was just so thrilled about it that had to tell you all!
bellybutton I normally give it a good 20mins so he is in deep deep sleep even then he still wakes sometimes.
My brother has arrived to stay for the weekend, he's not seen him since he was in the hospital, he's going to have a shock in the morning when he sees how enormous baby small is!

turqoise I get mad with my bottom too!!!

Sorry vicky I didn't mean to cast aspersions on your mil's childcare skills! Did indeed mean evilwater earlier!

I had arse issues after giving birth as well, though happily they do get better quickly turquiose! A big problem has been my habit of oversharing....every time anyone has asked me "And how are YOU feeling?" DH has held his breath and given me this pleading look in case I start telling them about my haemorrhoids....

Babyfunch has gone from.2 til 5 on top of her mammoth sleep earlier and I feel human again. Don't want to be smug, I am just saying there is hope for all of us to have the odd good night (and I think I earned it with the day I had!)

Re cot transfer, I try to do it as soon as I think she is in a deep sleep ie when I can lift her atm and it's completely floppy, and she doesn't stir if I let it fall to her side. Sometimes I let her sleep on me for ten minutes or so to try and reduce the chance she will.wake up when moved. I have only about a 50% success rate though!

Happy sleeping everyone :)

Well, little fella just went from 10:10-5:20!!! I'm not feeling smug as I feel quite worried, should I be?? He's only 6 weeks tomorrow. I'm also worried about my milk [hconfused]

Off to catch up on posts!

The car seat worked! Im pumping for the First feed.

DP didn't like it that he slept in the car seat, so I told him "if you want, you can take him out" he's still in there.

He also doesn't like the fact that I'm trying to teach him the difference between night and day. Does he think at, on the day he turns six weeks that it will all magically fall into place.?
I mentioned about his mum, I think a lead bolloon would have more of a chance.....
Evil

Mrsp- ill probably get shot at dawn for this but, what more important Bf or your sanity?
I'm going with sanity, and how great is that.
Evil

How flipping cold is it please?! Poor ds's little hands are like icicles! Think I'm going to have to get him some fleecy sleepsuits with glove bits in them! It has just started to chuck it down with hailstones. Brrrr.

Hi to all the newbies! Hope you're settling into something of a routine and can get some sleep. Rowing at 4 days I was still trying to figure out what night feeds entailed and spent all my time getting ds to relatch when he fell off so could in no way have posted on here at that time - well done! It all gets better soon...well maybe not 'better' but you will get to know what to expect and learn how to deal with it.

evil I hope you can sort the mil problem without too much stress.

My ILs are coming today to see ds for the first time as they live abroad. I'm dreading it! They are lovely people but can be a bit interfering...MIL is of the school of thought that babies should not be fed on demand but at a certain time and for a certain amount of time Poos DSIL had a nightmare with her when she has her DD...I'm hoping she won't be quite so vocal with me as she isn't my mother...we'll see!