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

[funchum8am]

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!

Meh, up again.

larle think you were right to kick dh out, if only because he's been out partying and then snored .
Hope you get some sleep. Babybrain is rubbish at going with dp in the night as he seems to think it's exciting, but then cries because actually he's tired . Invariably I get called within half a hour anyway because sleep isn't happening.

Hope lots of you are sleeping

2nd feed. The little gro egg is alternating between blue and yellow so we're having our own mini disco! Freezing though. Not going to bother with a transfer and will just take him into bed. Hope the teething babies calmed down in the end. Hoping this isn't up time.....

Back to the bad days of every 1-2 hours. No sleep between 1am and 5am.
Am fantasizing about checking into a hotel and sleeping all day.

Sympathies to those kept awake by snoring - it's a special kind of hell, isn't it?

Was too tired to read last night but wish I had as it might have helped. Instead, I had a meltdown when Missmarbles decided to pretend to fall asleep in my arms and then wake up and play in the cot. DD1 was already in our bed because she woke up poorly. Really pissed off eith transfer fails and DH's 'helpfulness' in going into DD1's room leaving me to deal with both children while he had a good night's sleep.

Second feed here and probably up time although I hope not!

I could see another dentist, I will see how it is the next few days.

Haha small we have had the gro egg disco too!

I forgot to say, the dentist blamed gum disease because of pregnancy so maybe that's why??

Sorry to hear of your bad teeth mrsn sounds horrid

Sounds like there were a few of us with rubbish nights...? After 1230 feed we were awake again at 230 then 330 wanting to feed but think it was wind so awake an hour and then baby loup winged at 530, self settled and woke up at 730 and has just had a meagre amount of boob as he's been snacking all night ugh, just can't see an end to this.... on the other hand baby loup nearly always goes down after feed a settles etc so there's one thing I can moan about.....!

Hope everyone has lovely relaxing sundays, more snow predicted oh and hope your DD feels better missmarbles 'D' H can be arses at times can't they?

*she not he and
*cant moan rather than can
Note to self to reread before posting.....

Oh funch I'm sorry your experiencing the same but it makes me feel better to know I'm not alone! How old is baby funch I think we were both on September threads? Is shhh and par from baby whisperer? Digging out the book now whilst baby Loup is looked after downstairs wonders if could get away with staying up in bed all day

loup babyfunch was due Sept 20 but born Oct 4 so now 15 weeks. Last night armed with my new belief that in fact there isn't anything wrong with her, she is just a normal non-sleeping baby, I settled her to sleep loads of times using shh and holding her hand/patting. Only problem was, she woke within an hour every time . But at least I know it can be done now. I fed her at 2 and 5.15 only which is less than usual. Hopefully we can consistently do the settling every time she wakes now, and she will eventually go longer between wakings, especially if I only feed her a couple of times. DH can use this method too so can work when he takes over, phew.

chilli I was up 1-5 as well, that is the worst spell!

My 3 week old is waking every hour too. I was about to start a thread asking why and what I can do and then I found all of you! So I'm not the only one then!!

Do any of you properly wake baby to feed in the night? I mean, mine cries for food about every hour but stays asleep for the feed. Trouble is then its a short feed and maybe not enough. And because I'm so tired I don't try to wake her as I know I'll at least get another hours sleep before the next feed.

funch little man was due Sep 19

Welcome birdies

Welcome birdies I have not had any success waking to feed because. Babyloo always refused to wake up-he will feed when semi awake but I couldn't wake him if he was flat out.

We had a horrible night, the worst since he was born, awake between 10.30 and five unles asleep on me, dp disappeared to the sofa at three ish so I could try having him in bed with me but that lasted about an hour-at five I took him down to dp and he had him and managed to get him to sleep in his bouncy chair until 8.15 so I could get some sleep.

He is really poorly temperature only controllable by calpol and roaring up to 40 when its near medicine time, spectacularly threw up his lunch which I knew I shouldn't have given him - rookie mistake. I've been on the phone to nhs direct and will need to take him to the drs if his temperature is still high tomorrow-we have decamped to my mum and dads because dp is watching the football, dreading a repeat of last night but have decided to just accept it will be rubbish and read my kindle and hope I don't lose wifi so I can come on here and tell you my tales of woe!! Keep resting to myself that I will sleep eventually!!

susie I sympathise, poor you and poor babyloo . it is amazing what you can cope with though, try to keep reminding yourself it won't last as hopefully he just has a bug and will be better very soon. Hugs!

Welcome birdies, we had the same problem with not taking enough at night feeds. It is a bit better now at 15 weeks but I am not sure there is much you can proactively do, they need to sleep and they need to feed and some babies just don't prioritise these two things sensibly! Having said that I think our sleep problems are fairly extreme and 3 weeks is very young so keep trying to keep baby awake a little longer at each feed and see if it helps...strip down to nappy, stroke cheeks, paddle their palms, rub feet and stroke them shoulder to foot to try and keep them up! Good luck! This thread is great for the sanity too

Welcome birdies and congratulations on your little one! Seems so long ago baby loup being 3 weeks old, she was actually a good sleeper then, used to do 4-6 hour nightly stretches.... fondly remembers those days

funch I think I need to follow your lead and try and settle loup without feeding particularly since she is now on bottles and I am sure must be Getting enough food to do longer than a couple of hours..... I need to try shh and pat without resorting to shoving my boob in her mouth to shh her

Poor baby susielou hope the fever ones down soon and LO feels better, horrible times.

Baby loup has just taken 6oz and I've expressed 4 for a dream feed (will persist in hope it sees her through one day!) off for supper and a few glasses of red before collapsing, sending baby dust to all

Ladies, a couple of people have been sprinkling baby dust around here....isn't that what you want when trying to conceive?! Could we maybe stick to sleep dust for a few months?!

Or am I alone in thinking if I got pregnant right now I would have to seriously consider running away from home....I can only cope with one under one!

Poor you and baby Lou susie! I hope you have a better night! Try some nurofen too, lasts a bit longer to keep temp down.

We had a nightmare at my mums getting babybee off for a nap even she was shocked. So anyway he slept in car coming back then I thought right for pm nap I'm gonna go for it & do pick up put down. Put him in cot walked out, 5 mins later he moaned, I went in, patted 3 times and he went to sleep - for 1.5 hours ! I was amazed! Going to stick with doing it. He has been chomping everything today so I'm dreading teething now! It was only last may that DD finished teething those last back molars were an absolute nightmare coming through

Well, my little piggy is beached now after bottle, hoping for peaceful night! An hour of tv then bed for me and DH - we are so rock n roll! Not! X

Ewan question! He just made a beeping noise and cut off but now fine? Does it mean his batteries are dying? And yes funch def nooooooooooo baby dust! My plans for no 3 are hanging in the sleep deprivation balance at the moment! X

Welcome birdie. I definitely woke babybrain to try to get more food in him, though at that age their tummies are so tiny they can't take much. Waking was quite hit and miss and sometimes it ended in wailing often by me.

Feeling for those with temperatures. Hope calpol or other helps with sleeping.

babybrain is finally falling asleep after much chatting, arm waving and grinning. Sigh. Very cute but not really conducive to bedtime.

Sorry funch that's me negligently spreading baby dust, I of course mean sleepy dust - can only blame the endless sleepless nights

Baby loup has been down an hour and a half and I so want to hot the sack but thinking I should wait until 11ish to dream feed. Hope babies are sleeping well, congrats on the shhh pat breakthrough amey

My little monkey will not go to sleep tonight - he doesn't want food, to be rocked, or to be lying down in his cot

amey that sounds like progress re napping - Yey! My Ewan beeps when the batteries are going, in fact he is doing it at the moment too, annoying!

Yes no baby dust for me for a few years!!

3rd wake up in under an hour-it's going to be a long night.

Evening all,

Gosh there's a lot to catch up on, I've been in a bit of a haze these last few days following babylump's decision to remind me just who is boss through means of a carefully structured sleep deprivation and conditioning programme...

Hope everyone's well, I'll be back later once I've caught up. In the mean time hoping for liberal amounts of sleepy dust (I agree funch, no other forms of dust required around here for a good while yet!) spread around for all.

Heff xx

Think if I got hit by baby dust at the moment, I would actually die I do want to be hit again in about four years from now though, despite the crappiness of last night.
Sleep now while all still quiet. No doubt see you all shortly. Hoping for better nights all round.