How to stay awake during night feeds part 6 - all welcome to join us!

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Hi everyone, cannot believe we have exchanged over 5000 messages!

mrsn when we shared our locations on here a while back, heff, goat and I all turned out to live near Uxbridge so we met up having met on here. It is lovely, if you are ever down south let us know!

macaroons sounds like we are in the same boat I officially return to work on 15 Feb but that is actually the Friday before half term so only have that day and then another week off before full time return hits. I am lucky that DH is being a SAHD til 1st July so no drop offs, pick ups or worries about the childminder ringing me because babyfunch is ill etc, and she is in great hands with him, much as I have been critical of him til we talked it over recently. However I am worried about being at work on no sleep - I will get in a lot of trouble if I lose my rag with a pupil or indeed a member of my team (one of whom is a pain). I will have to perfect the art of letting some things go (eg uniform issues in the corridor as opposed to in my lessons - I spend a lot of time arguing with pupils about these and intend to stop save for the very worst!) and dealing with others by just reporting bad behaviour to heads of year rather than dealing with it myself. I am head of faculty so will focus just on what happens in lessons in my faculty rather than working quite so hard on having the best corridor behaviour in the school in my area - it is great having that but takes a lot of time, energy and conflict so it will just have to go n the back burner until I am getting proper sleep again. At this rate dd will be in year 7 by then herself and can help me!

Stupid iPhone! Posted halfway through post

Grotty not gritty night, Heff*!!

And my back has ached ON and off not in

I keep falling off the thread!

Had a bad night last night with 4 feeds between 4-9. Not good. Also Ewans batteries are dying meaning he lasts only a few minutes. Cant find the bloody screwdriver to open him up! Very annoying as DH reckons he seen them somewhere recently. He did offer to go out to Asda and buy some but I said no, which may have been stupid.

J was asleep when we were downstairs but he woke up when we came up so we are now feeding, again!

Hi chilli thanks for nectarines, yummy.
We have snow susie only a tiny sprinkle though. I'll check on it before I go back to bed to see if its grown into the huge pile they have forecast. Have you got some?
funch I think 5 mins of crying is fine too if she really needed you she wouldn't have fallen asleep. Baby small always crys a bit at bedtime after his bath and before story. I think it's his way of winding down from the day, he stops once we've got pj's on and we're ready for story.

Evening all, Heff trying a new name on for size after reading the cyber stalking thread and becoming all paranoid. Thing is I quite like my old name so will probably change back soon anyway rendering the whole thing pointless

I managed not to kill my sister, just gave her a bit of a headache when I did snap a bit and lobbed DD1s bottle of detangling spray at her. She got up and stomped off to bed them but I still only got another hour before babylump made it clear we were getting up now. Feel awful because I spent most of the night being cross with her and I know she's not doing it on purpose :(

funch you're right about the snoring, its like adding insult to injury, "not only am I asleep but l am making a godawful racket about it to rub it in that you are not"

mrsn that sounds like a lovely idea, really thoughtful.

Welcome chilli I love nectarines so yes please :) We've all got much better with our night snacks but I think goat is right, thread food is free of calories so somebody pass the biscuits!

Arghhhhhhhhhhh-we are up again-why why why?

And why must my parents turn every single plug off in the house bar fridge and freezer but including the BT home hub router so I can't get wifi on my phone so it takes a billion years to load a page!! My father is convinced that a plug will spontaneously burst into flames at any point!

We have had a little sprinkling of snow but I think it will be all gone by morning.

Is too susie my time in bed lasted all of five minutes. Have you read the thread in classics about odd/annoying things people's parents do, so many posters saying same as you re the plug thing!

What happened to my lovely sleepy baby? No idea why she's suddenly got so crap at sleep is there a 14 and a half week sleep regression?! I would leave her for a few minutes but then she'd wake DD1 up so I have no choice but get up and come downstairs again. funch I think what you did sounded fine, great in fact! Hope baby funch gets the idea soon and you're that step closer to a proper nights sleep.

Wish I hadn't taken my contact lenses out, can't even put a film on now!

*us too, not is too!

First feed here, I was having such a good sleep too I'm not sure re snow, we had a few light showers yesterday - will check in the morning (I really hope not!!)

Ok Cath Kidston it is then, thanks

heff you will always be heff to me lol I'm sorry but throwing the detangling spray at your sister did make me giggle I hope you have a better night tonight!

marbles hope your back is better soon!

I could really go some calorie free chocolate right now!!

Up again, its one of those nights. On the plus side I found some jam tarts to keep me company.

Worst night we've had for a while. Dp is going to be taking him out for the afternoon so I can go back to bed-he doesn't know this yet but he is

Yes funch I agree 5 mins crying not terrible. Happens here occasionally anyway - just because if DD is needing toilet or something I have to leave him!

Last night was good stretch 130-830 but poor DD wet the bed at 330 so I was up a while changing sheets and her pj's. its a sign she's not quite happy about something :(

Had a lovely time swimming, DS slept lots after but is being very demanding on cuddle front tonight - transfer fails in abundance, I feel tired now .

heff at detangle spray - could be new weapon!

Right transfer attempt 134....

Back as predicted!

heff when I was scrolling to get to the first new post I saw several posts from your new nn and thought we had a prolific newbie! Sorry to hear dd2 is up so often, hope it passes very soon.

About to attempt transfer as this is our FIRST feed! I have not woken her for feed at 11 as I have been doing for the past week and it doesn't seem to have made any difference, so may give up on that!

Glad to hear the consensus is that a few mins of crying is ok. Always nice to hear that one is officially non-evil.

That 'omg anality of PILs' thread is absolutely hilarious - anyone who is up late should def read it for a laugh!

off to check whether we have snow, a snow day = DH off school, hurrah!

We have a couple of inches of snow.
2nd feed of the night here, changed baby larles routine to see if we could feed at 10 then 3 and it seems to have worked! 10 mins bf and he is asleep again!
Snacked on a banana, get me being healthy!
funch I think there's a massive difference between cc for longer periods of time each night and crying for a couple of minutes.

Up again-I've just given him some calpol in case his tummy or teeth are hurting-it's unusual for him to wake up every two hours crying so something's up.

How's your brother feeling amey.

Started reading that thread funch and agree it was hilarious so will revisit it and see if any of the other things my parents do are on there.

Second feed here after a half-hearted snack at midnight that had me fearing the worst, so pleasantly surprised. I'm hoping you guys are my good luck charms!
funch I think if he was asleep that quickly he wasn't too distressed and I confess to being a bit envious of your success as baby chilli will scream himself into a state if left.
Another fan of the 'anality of pils' thread although I keep giggling and waking the baby up

Ps thanks for the lovely welcome

Second feed here and it will not be up time!!

Off to have a nosy at PILs thread if I can find it

mrsn the word 'anality' in the thread title is unique so it cones up if you search mumsnet

Fed again at 3:15 and then put her next to me while asleep, so co-sleeping but without feeding at the same time. This has never worked before but got me an hour's sleep today, then fed again at 5:30. think that is our best ever night! shame I couldn't sleep for some of the time but still it is progress.

In other news...sexfunch is back! (apologies to those who didn't really want to know that!)

We are not having as gooder night as last night, millions of transfer fails ! No idea why but I think he needs a poonami - his belly is making Weird noises.

susie my brother is doing ok thanks, just can't walk at the moment so my mum & dad r helping out as SIL also has glandular fever, not a healthy bunch. His results are in 2 weeks.

Welcome back into the game sexfunch ha ha, our ahem evening the other night was interrupted by screaming DS, its very off putting I must admit .

Just managed to make a bottle one handed with screaming DS in tow as DH ended up in with DD at 4am.

Don't actually want to attempt transfer, its cold & he's like a hot water bottle & I know it will fail x

Morning all. We kicked dh out of bed and co slept. Snowing quite hard here so not going to yoga but will still attempt to walk down to have my nails done- prioritys!!!
Sex small is back too especially now I can wear nice underwear again, I really struggled feeling sexy in those nursing bras! Must sort out proper contraception though otherwise we'll be getting another stork delivery in 9 months time!

Well luckily 6am wasn't up time, 9am was! And we woke up to snow, hubby said it all fell in only an hour cause it was clear when he went to work! I only have to go out later for my counselling session but I'm a bit nervous about driving in it so might have to get hubby to take me!

Thanks funch - and congratulations on sexfunch and sexsmall being back! Any tips lol!

Hello everyone :)

Glad to see some have been having fun ;)

Stitch decided not to go to bed until midnight after two hours of solid feeding . She then woke at 2.30 fed for half an hour and then woke at 5am when I put her in bed with us and she slept until 9am when dd1 woke us up!

Has anyone else managed to form any sort of routine yet?
small how you going with bottles & feed times? Ours are still all over the place & its driving me a bit mad. I can't decide whether to go for it & implement bottle times at least. He was so good yesterday - because he had a long mid afternoon nap in pram (won't do this inside very frustrating). He's just gone to sleep now which is crap timing because he will go to bed late now.
I'm starting to feel quite stressed with it all as its taking me so long to get him down for a nap, & I'm telling DD to be quiet all the time.
Wish I could do pick up put down or something but everyone says its too early. I just can't really be rocking/pushing in pram everyday for 20 mins + for each nap without neglecting DD.
any suggestions welcome. X

I thought I had got a routine going but have messed it up today by going out both morning and afternoon. We were doing up at 6.30 to 7, nap 8-9.45ish, nap 12.30 to 2ish and 4-5, feed 6.30 and bed at 7. feeds were a bit hit and miss but generally just before naps with a top up just after naps (as I was trying to implement EASY and stop feeding to sleep.)

Do you manage to get babyfunch to do a long stretch nap in cot funch Everytime I try with DS he does max 45 mins n is then still a bit tired & hardwork in afternoon. I feel really exasperated with it all today. I'm knackered which makes it worse . I just feel really sorry for DD on the days I have them both. X