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

My wifi has been playing up too must be the weather???

Well tonight I asked DH to get up with baby J as he was only whimpering and thought he'd be easier to settle. Wrong
After half hour baby J was hysterical so I had to get up & help

This doesn't fill me with confidence about going out on that night out. I've been stalling on giving my answer coz I just don't know what to do

vicky we just had the exact same situation - DH took her downstairs so I could sleep but she lasted half an hour before screaming for a feed. She had fed to sleep when I handed her over to him, so thought I would get longer. DH also now feels bad that he couldn't give me more sleep. Going to express and try the bottle again today for sure!!!

Best of luck for getting some sleep at some point vicky. heff I hope babylump stays asleep for you (and yes watching tv on 3G would cost loads unless you have a large data allowance on your phone!)

I can't remember what number feed were on now but it was with a 2 hour gap this time!!!

Thank you ladies the kitkat was very nice and enjoyed guilt free [hgrin]

When did you introduce a bottle of expressed milk to your Los? I have some in the freezer that I am beyond proud off that DP will eventually give her but I don't know when's the best time to give if so she doesn't get confused with BF

Quite a good night here so far! Kid is even lying beside me again. Just as well, as on the last feed I was so tired that I fell asleep,only to wake up with the bottle trying to insert itself up Kid's nose while he lay there looking patient and bemused, obviously thinking that this was simply another of those incomprehensible things that the adults in his life keep doing!

I can't keep up with this thread either. A few unsettled nights out there, it seems, so hope those are beginning to calm down and that babies realise the extreme joy of this extra hour tonight. It is also cold, yes? And I am beginning to worry about having enough warm clothes for Kid, especially when we go onMonday to visit DH'sparents in the middle of the countryside. Kid has just grown out of the second size up - has now gone through early baby and tiny baby and finally is ready for newborn size, even if they are a bit baggy on him! Would it be wrong therefore to go on a shopping spree?

Did someone mention pizza upthread? I have a hankering. At 5 in the morning?!
And has anyone seen the film Despicable Me? (oooh.... Stuffed crust...)

Morning!

Nervous I think it's around 6 weeks to introduce a bottle. BF should be well established. I really need to get back to expressing so Missmarbles can have the odd bottle. I just find it such s hassle and never seem to get round to it.

Not a horrendous night here. She settled late and woke up just before midnight, then about 3 hours later and again now. Sort if reverted to newborn , but am hoping its a combination of back in different bed after hols and altered routine because of travelling. Hoping for another couple if hours. I'm very sleepy. Should have gone to bed earlier but was doing those application forms for that job I was in about last week. Starving too, worsened by the talk if yummy stuff on here but can't be bothered to go and get anything. Cup of tea and a digestive would do, but can't be bothered!

Glad you enjoyed your Kitkat, Nervous.

I had to go to hospital last week and was not allowed to bring DD on the ward do left two bottles of expressed milk for my six hour absence and she gulped them down happily and went back to the leaking and engorged breast happily afterwards. I was really pleased and vowed to keep doing one bottle a day do she gets on the habit of a bottle but haven't expressed since. Partly because it's such a hassle with all that sterilising and partly because the pump wouldn't have got a look in with all the feeding going on anyway.

Susie, two feeds between 7pm and morning sounds pretty good to me and what I'd aspire to at 16 weeks. Funch, I couldn't cope if DD was waking still at 9 months. I wonder at what point I should start thinking about a bedtime routine. At the moment, there is nothing in the way of routine going on here and DD goes to bed when I do.

My neighbour (house across the road) has a really loud alarm clock and leaves it ringing for about an hour every day before getting his lazy ass out of bed. He obviously forgot the clocks changed so it's ringing now, an hour earlier than usual. He has a wife and teenage kids. How they can stand it, I do not know.

nervous BabyCat has also had a couple of bottles of ebf so far (4 weeks) and it hasn't caused an issue with bf and neither has the dummy, bad mummy. It really does depend on the baby and the bottle though, I think helpfull.

heavenly your neighbour reminds my of me. When I used to stay over at now DH's on a weekend, I always forgot to turn my alarm off so my mum had to negotiate the absolute shittip my room to turn it off. [hblush]

In other news, BabyCat is on feed two after I finally managed to get to sleep for a hour and a half, but DH has got up for nappy duty. And sorry for mentioning the pizza, but goat DID ask! [hwink]

heff 'plonk and run' technique made me smile. It is always my hope that that will work too but no such luck!

nervous, I've heard two conflicting things about when is best to introduce a bottle. The first was my NCT teacher who said not to introduce before 6 weeks to avoid nipple confusion, the second was that you had to introduce before 6 weeks or they are far Moore likely to reject the bottle.

I had to introduce a bottle in week 1 with DS1 and that didn't cause nipple confusion. I also gave DS2 a bottle last night and he went on to feed fine afterwards. I use the Medea bottles that are supposed to be similar to breast feeding. Maybe that helps? I do wonder if it made DS1 more impatient when feeding though as when a bit older he would get frustrated at breast feeding if he was very hungry I think because the milk comes out slower than it does with the bottle.

Second feed here, or is it morning - we shall see!

It's clever how the iPhone knows the clocks are going back isn't it!

Thanks nervous I hope you enjoyed it!

Any plans for today? We just have to go food shopping and to Costco to stock up on boring loo and kitchen roll. However, Costco do have some amazing food........ Hehe

Hi everyone,
The 2 and 4 feeds merged into each other. We couldn't figure out what LO wanted so we co slept. And now feeding again.

Evil

Not 'seen' tea and babylon for a while - hope its because they are getting lots of sleep [hsmile]

I've not been posting much at night as DS had a bad few nights and I was like a zombie

But last night DS did an incredible 7 hours! Not seen that for a couple of weeks [hsmile] If only I wouldn't wake up all the time waiting for him to stir [hsad] Still, it is an improvement on having to get up to feed every 2 hours or less.

Hope those with bad nights manage some rest today (out those DHs on duty!). I'm not sure what we will do today - DH is studying for his exam, so DS and I are left to our own devices.

It's so bloody cold in this room! The GroEgg is glowing an ominous blue.

I have a pizza craving now too [hhmm]

Such a busy thread, which means naughty babies not sleeping.. Boo! :(

MiniPop slept from 11pm to 7am, including the extra hour, which is just amazing - a minor miracle! [hgrin], will send you all some extra sparkly sleeping mouse dust for tonight, and hope you all get some naps today.

It's freezing in our house too Tea, really cold. Had to sneak the heating on at 4am this morning, so the nursery wasn't too cold (Shush, don't tell DP! :))

What's everyone doing today? It's so cold and grim out I am tempted to stop in, especially as LO seems to be coming down with another cold. , but we spent most of yesterday in, so might be nice to get out and about.

Might drive to the shops and satisfy my Starbucks latte craving, miss them so much since moving out of London and there being one on every corner (v. sad I know!!).

Yay for minipop's mega sleep! [hgrin]

Wow, Minipop! Excellent
Well done baby Patz, as well
Night before last, we got back to 6 hours. If we have a more normal day today we might get back to that again. Going to church then out for lunch mmmm.

Please ask miss marbles to let babyloo know we are back on 6 hours [hgrin] the most we get at the moment is 4

Great to hear some of you are getting some good sleep in!

Why is it that BabyN has me up err hiur at night then as soon as day light hits its an hour and twenty min before she wakes??

Every hour*

tea and mini congratulations on your amazing nights!

I just had a nap while hubby looked after little fella which was lovely, and in our own bed (I sleep in the nursery with little man, anybody else sleep separately from dh at the moment?) I really miss sleeping with hubby in our bedroom, but this is working for us just now.

I had cookie dough pop tarts for breakfast - yum!

Oh no, we just had another projectile vomit while feeding - does anyone else have any experience of this? Is it normal baby stuff or should we be worried? [hsad]

Again I am so behind on all the posts. This is what happens when one actually gets some sleep! Yes, DDDDDDDH took the Feedinator downstairs at 7 so I got 2 1/2 lovely hours. And actually the night was not horrendous after the obligatory screaming hour at 1 am. 2 short feeds and then sleep, some of it even beside me rather than on top.

(Yes mrsn DH and I sleep separately at the moment )

Sorry for the bad nights again. Are the sleepy mice hibernating because of the cold?

We are just back from our weekly fix of hot choc at Langley Park. They now do the most amazing millionaire's shortbread as well!!

You know, that emoticon looks really quite bald, so here it is again - [hsad]

Does anyone else have difficulty thinking of Xmas prezzies for DPs?

Last feed before bed because in babyloo's world it is half past seven and he is very over tired and grouchy, really hoping we don't have a repeat of last night and require a two hour play in the early hours.

We are still at my mum and dads so in the igloo again tonight although nowhere near as cold tonight.

I was going to attempt to eat my tea before bed time but that didn't happen so I have a plate of beef stew and dumplings and mash in the oven waiting for me.

Hope everyone enjoyed their Sundays and gets lots of lovely sleep, hope the sleepy mice have come out of hibernation and scattering sleepy dust as I go [hgrin]

Bedtime here too. Just wondering if I am doing it right, how do you get them to sleep? I feed baby small until he falls asleep, wait 10 mind or so and then tip him into his basket- is this normal or are there other ways of getting babies to sleep? Just wondering if perhaps I'm doing it wrong?

I'm still here too!

small I bring babyloo up to bed and make sure the room is dim, nappy change and into sleep suit then feed him until he falls asleep, hold him up right on me for about ten mins and enjoy the sleepy cuddle then transfer to his cot. I know that there are lots of theories that say babies shouldn't feed to sleep or be rocked etc and should self soothe but this has just naturally become our routine and bf makes him very sleepy, he seems to know now that its bedtime because he will feed for half an hour most nights which is very long for him.