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!

Hope you settle him mrsn! And heff hope baby lump behaves!!

I've come to bed now. Have felt really weird & a bit low today :( maybe just sleep deprivation making me over think stuff xx

What's up amey? Hope you're ok, if you want to write it all down sometimes that helps, you know we're here to listen if you need it xx

In bed now watching the snooker final with DH, she woke on transfer so feeding now and hoping praying, begging that she'll go back down without a fuss.

Please no baby dust here! My uterus tore having baby chilli (sorry tmi) and I was told it would take at least 18 months to heal, so baby dust would be a bit of a disaster.

susie how is babyloo tonight? Hopefully better, poor wee thing.

amey I've also been quite low today, I think it's a combination of sleep deprivation and.anxiety. I've started panicking about how I'm going to cope at work if baby chilli is still waking this often. I hope you get a good sleep and maybe feel more positive tomorrow.

We had the extended bedtime feed - transfer fail - feed - transfer fail cycle tonight which normally means he'll sleep through until at least 1 but no, here we are awake and I'm not feeling hopeful about this transfer.

Second feed here. Very sleepy no name checklist I'm afraid.
Going to put down & head to bed soon as eyes are drifting shut.

Good luck all.

Fail.

chilli I think that sleepy dust hit me and not babybrain!

Up again.

Brain I apologise for my crap aim. Should have saved some for myself as I'm having trouble sleeping in between feeds.

First feed here, I thought he was just making noises in his sleep so I put Ewan on and went to the toilet, but no, when I got back his little eyes were saying feed me!

amey sending hugs - yes, it might help to write it down here, it always has done for me! If not, I really hope you feel better in the morning.

chilli sorry you have been feeling low too!

The wanderer returns welcome back heff

Hello everyone. Second feed and successful transfer here. She bounced about until 10pm though after being woken by dh when she was feeding to sleep at 8pm.

Sending sleepy dust to all those in need.

No baby dust though, oh no couldn't do that just yet, haven't had a full nights sleep since 2008, I need some respite first after stitch!

Amey and Chilli sleep deprivation does strange things to you, my tip is to eat lots of bananas, oily fish, leafy greens, hemp seed and take a good post-natal vitamin complex, helps your body cope with the huge demands being made on it. Plus lots of chocolate helps.

Susie - hope babyloo is getting better.

Second feed here.... Just don't understand....dream fed at 1030 she was then awake at 1245 for food and now.... Tried putting euan on but nope, eyes open and looking to suck. Am so concerned that this might never end.

Sorry to hear of feelings chiili and amee sleep deprivation definitely makes things seem worse, I think iron course for an argument with DH unfortunately...

Please please let me get sleepy (not baby) dust until morning

Hi all. Can I join? My first baby is a week old now and I'm on demand breastfeeding. I was all perky at the beginning but I'm flagging already. Dd is having differently timed bouts of a half hour feed every hour from the late afternoon through to the following morning. No established pattern yet (perhaps unsurprisingly). She now appears to want to force herself to stay awake all night. DH has to return to work tomorrow and I'm apprehensive about doing this alone. It's good to know others are out there too.

Poor babybrain has woken with unhappy grizzling which I think is due to is teeth. He's also getting a cold which is no fun

A bit more awake this time!

amey and chilli sorry you are both feeling low. I hope you're getting good sleep and if either of you still want to talk things over, we're all here for you. Sleep deprivation is a weird thing and wears you down.

mrsn hope you got back to sleep

stitch might have a look at what's in those foods. There are definitely some essential vitamins and things that it's important to keep up with while pregnant. Frustrating about dh waking dd while giving her sleepy feed... And frustrating when you have to fix the consequences of their forgetting to be quiet!

Hi all, feeding my 19 month old and bored. We're having a few teeth/regression issues so am up a lot at the moment!
Muffintop101 - congratulations! Enjoy the newborn snuggles It is very hard work at the beginning but you are doing great. Drink lots of water and eat lots of cake and you'll be fine, you'll get through it and you'll be amazed at how little you can function on. Feeding lying down helped me a lot in the early days too - midwife suggested it to me, and said it was great because you can have a little doze whilst feeding. Saved my sanity! Lie on your side with underside arm up (goes over their head), position baby on their side in front of you, and you are sorted

Thanks Bigwhoop. She's up again after a 20 minute put down. Will try feeding lying down and see how that goes. My poor DH is currently dancing round the room and singing to Dd because if she comes near me she starts rooting and getting frustrated if I withhold the boob.

Spectacular transfer fail of full on wide awake, big eyed 'who are you and where am I?!' with throwing arms around by babybrain. Followed up by some coughing and farting.

Back to rocking chair and starting again. At least being awake means he's willing to feed again.

Muffintop101 - there's a big 1 week growth spurt, she'll be feeding constantly at the moment. As much as it is terribly hard she'll be doing a great job upping your milk supply. Your DH sounds great for trying to help Try not to worry about how you'll cope tomorrow, you'll be a pro and happily leaving the house/getting showered/eating food in no time

muffin out of interest is there a reason you're withholding if dd is rooting? At a week old she could well be hungry that often and it also helps get your milk supply up and flowing. It probably is too early for any pattern other than constant!

I suggest installing yourself somewhere with a BIG book, a selection of drinks and food, and a tv tomorrow and don't worry about doing anything but looking after dd.

Sorry if you know all this/dd isn't your first. I couldn't believe how much babybrain fed in the first few weeks or how I survived

Brain, I was only withholding to check there wasn't something else wrong. There wasn't. I have just fed her again and she appears to be asleep, finally. So now I can crash. Phew! Unlikely to be venturing anywhere tomorrow due to snow anyway. See you all tomorrow night!

First feed since 10 here- woo hoo!
susie hope baby loo is ok? Don't give nurofen I he has a poorly tummy as its ibuprofen and likely to make it worse. Paracetamol will be much better at keeping his temp down. My sad told me off for giving baby small nurofen when he was teething and said it really was better to stick to calpol, he's medical so I always do what he says!
I don't want baby dust for 2/3 years please! I would however like a bit more sleepy dust.
It's been snowing hard here since 9 ish and I daren't look outside. Was supposed to be having the nct girls over tomorrow but think they won't be able to get to me.

Hi can i join you? Dd is 7 weeks and seems to be going backwards when it comes to sleeping! Waking every 3 hours atm and taking half an hour to get back down if she decides to go!

Would be nice to have someone to chat to as Dh is snoring!

Welcome muffin big and lilliana!

Why does little man keep insisting it is up time at this time, he used to sleep until after 8

Hope you got some sleep susie!

Hello all and welcome to new people

I'm knackered!!! My mum and dad had babyloo between 11 and 2 and then I had him in bed with me from two until six thirty with a feed at five-his temperature has dropped back to normal and he's had some breakfast and grandpa has managed to sing him to sleep (he's the only person that can do this-its amazing) so I will see how he is for the rest of the day and then decide whether to take him to the dr-he's still very clingy and now quite pale but I think he's just really tired. There is another little tooth next to his first one that seems to have shot up so this maybe all about teeth. Going to try and get him to have as much sleep as possible today-I'm on KIT days tomorrow and Wednesday so hope he's going to feel better otherwise I won't be going anywhere.

Will catch up on thread during the day, hope everyone not too tired today.

Well that wasn't much of an improvement :( Not sure how often we were up in the end as tried not to look and further depress myself, I don't understand why she's suddenly gone backwards. A few days I'd just put down to growth spurt or teeth but this has been about a week & a half of sheer rubbish ness. Any ideas anyone? She's 3.5 months now, she hasn't slept like this since she was newborn.

Welcome to all new posters, and congratulations on new babies :) Hope you're enjoying the snuggles despite the sleep deprivation.

Ouch chilli that's a scary sounding injury I didn't know you could tear your uterus hope you're healing up ok.

What are everyone's plans today? We're going to have a walk up to the common to meet a friend and her LO who is roughly dd2's age while dd1 gets to run around in the snow for a bit. Hope the roads clear up soon, I've had to give DH the car to get to work so at risk of going a bit stir crazy if we can't get out soon.

P.s get well soon babyloo xx

Thanks MrsNPattz. Thankfully baby lil went back down ok and didn't wake when dh's alarm went off so i got another couple of hours of much needed sleep.

Hope everyone has had a good night.

Can i ask does anyone else let their lo fall asleep on them before putting them down? Baby lil will not settle herself no matter how tired and not sure I'm ready to let her scream that long. It would give me another hour and a half sleep if she would and i'm worried i'm getting her into bad habits.

muffin hope you got some sleep in the end.

Welcome lilliana

susie glad babyloo seems to be a bit better. This teeth business is so hard on them! DM was telling me they always come in pairs so I'm aware poor babybrain has more sadness to come before any respite

mrsn it amazes me how babies can have awful nights and still wake up at silly o'clock, even if they do have a nap again afterwards.
Babybrain slept from 4-7 this morning and I didn't go into him as he was bumbling quietly to himself in the hope he'd go back to sleep. DPs alarm goes off which disturbs babybrain and what do I find but a grinning, giggling baby! So very cute. I love it when they wake all happy!

big hope it's a short lived phase.

dark at 4 months babybrain had awful nights for about 2.5 weeks. Think growth spurt spread into teething and regression. I get the impression it's a particularly bad one then. Maybe you are getting it a bit early?

Babybrain always falls asleep on either me or DP. I'll deal with any problems when I not so sleep deprived! Right now anything to get him to sleep, and therefore sleep for me is worth it!