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

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funchum8am · 03/01/2013 14:05

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 Hmm 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!

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sweetpea1112 · 05/01/2013 22:16

hello all Smile
I would love to join if I may.
I have an 5.5 week old baby boy (dc1) who is completely wonderful. He currently feeds at 10ish which is when we all go to bed, then again at 12:30ish and 3:30ish before getting up at about 7. I'm assuming that's about right for his age?

The whole feed/wind/change cycle can take over an hour though so not getting huge amounts of sleep. Babypea also prefers to sleep on us rather than in his cot but am trying out Ewan for the first time tonight so fingers crossed....

MrsNPattz · 05/01/2013 22:46

Welcome sweetpea! Lots of new little babies keeping there mums awake at the moment!

That's little man finally gone down so off to sleep myself, hope it's a good stretch!

BrainGoneAwol · 05/01/2013 23:20

Welcome sweetpea. That sounds pretty good for 5.5 week old. Of course you will always get those who say their dc slept through by 1 week and were bringing them breakfast in bed by two weeks, but yours sounds much more normal.

Unfortunately we are on second feed already. Ho hum. Hoping this one lasts a bit longer.

goat ugh. Nasty having to start your day at 5am. Hope you get some decent sleep in there somewhere.

So many new babies Smile

HeffalumpsAndWoozles · 05/01/2013 23:29

Welcome all newbies, and congratulations on your new babies :) Hope we can help keep you company through the nights, although you need serious willpower to resist all the food porn!

Only one accident today toilet training wise, are we getting the hang of it?!

Glad you got home safe mrsn, it must be difficult having to leave your family but you will be back, not the same I know but I hope you're feeling ok tonight.

funch that's awful is he really unintentional about it? You're a better woman than me for letting it go over your head, I'd be so upset if anyone commented on my weight, for my own good or otherwise

I've just watched 'Shutter Island' with my sister, she's been on at me for she's to watch it so I gave in after triple checking that it was definitely suitable for me in my emotionally wobbly and scardey cat state. For those who haven't seen it, don't. It's horrible :( I was so annoyed with her that she didn't think to maybe warn me a bit of the content and now I will probably have nightmares :(

How has everyone's day been?

Susieloo · 05/01/2013 23:47

1st feed of the night so not bad going, hoping he will drop the next feed and just merrily sleep until 7 ish never going to happen

Welcome sweetpea your feed times sound great for your lo-I would be happy with that now and ds is nearly six months!!

heff -it is a really disturbing film, I saw it ages ago and it stayed with me for a while.

tea nice to gear from you and hope your improvements continue.

larlemucker · 06/01/2013 00:05

Evening,
first feed of the night done although I have had to wake him up and he only fed for 10 mins. Not worried about that though as I am sure he will be awake by 2 and then be feeding all night as this seems to be his routine!!

Sat watching pirates of the caribbean with ds on pillow propped up by me and chair arms as he wakes if I put him in basket, must purchase a swaddle tomorrow (tried to do it myself - not a good result!) Either that or he may end up with a dummy!!!!

DontYouJingleMyChristingle · 06/01/2013 00:07

Welcome Nettleton, Larle and Sweetpea. :)

Glad you are feeling a bit better now you are home MrsN, pizza and cheesecake always help I find.

On third feed already, but this one is for comfort as littlejingle has a cough and upset tummy from all the mucus from her cold.

Just eaten lemon cake and custard to help me through nightshift, yum :)

Should have been on here last night but was on Namechange live birth thread, but she had her baby tonight so I will be checking in later.

Dd2 slept better when she was newborn than she does now, she is just teething constantly at the moment.

StuntNun · 06/01/2013 00:35

Hello newbies! First feed of the night here but on a second lot after transfer fail Hmm

I know what you mean about too fragile Heff. I have three episodes of the Walking Dead to watch but I just can't handle it at the moment.

Izzybuzzybuzzybees · 06/01/2013 00:36

Just brought j upstairs. He woke up a bit as I needed to change his nappy so I fed him a little and he fell asleep. Had successful transfer and he's snoring away so I'm going to try too. Not overly tired as I slept a lot today as felt rubbish after a bad night. Speak soon no doubt!

larlemucker · 06/01/2013 01:58

been feeding on and off since 12. got some sleep before hand but still really tired and ds has just been sick in sleep so will probably be feeding again soon

MrsNPattz · 06/01/2013 02:36

First feed here - I jumped out of my skin as we have a new projector and he somehow managed to put it on! Was having such a nice sleep too.

heff I've not seen that one, hope you are managing to sleep with no nightmares!

I have been reading threads on here about putting garlic up your bum and everything.......... Not seen a live birth one though!

NettletonMummy · 06/01/2013 02:54

First feed for NettleBaby, went 10.30 until 2.30- here's hoping for another 4 hour stretch. (Wishful thinking probably)

MrsN we also have new projector and screen just below bedroom. Sounded like bedroom floor collapsing when dh rolled the screen up just after I had gone to sleep - bit unnerving...

Smallgreenone · 06/01/2013 03:06

Well he's moved the 1am feed to now and taken a bit more this time, does mean though that our 6 hour sleep will disappear if we're getting up at 7 like we are supposed to do Hmm. Baby small has a dummy for sleep amey and it is a godsend as my nipple used to be his dummy and it was exhausting. I'll wean him off it eventually if he doesn't do it himself but it has been useful.
Hi to all the newbies! Sorry not to name check, too tired. So
many new names though that I feel I really should have graduated Sad
Attempting transfer

Susieloo · 06/01/2013 03:06

2nd feed so not too bad, we are in the dreaded 3-4 zone so hoping for an easy transfer then through until 7.

StuntNun · 06/01/2013 03:10

Second feed here as well so there's not much space between feeding. He's only feeding for a few minutes then popping off so it hardly seems worth getting up for.

sweetpea1112 · 06/01/2013 03:18

Wow, isn't this thread a godsend? If nothing else, it really helps to know that I'm not alone during the lonely night feeds and that my fecking SIL and her magic sleeping through baby may be the exception rather than the norm

MrsNPattz · 06/01/2013 03:21

Transfer fail! And little monkey was lying playing with Ewan rather than sleeping so up feeding again! Wah I want to go back to sleep. An hour awake during the night seems to be becoming the norm - no likey.

Susieloo · 06/01/2013 03:21

Transfer fail

BrainGoneAwol · 06/01/2013 03:40

Third feed. Got a nice 3 hour stint if sleep though which feels amazing after the last couple if nights. Babybrain is being extremely fidgety though so I'm not overly hopeful if how long this one will last...

nettleton unnerving sounds like an understatement! I'd have a heartattack!

Garlic up the bum mrsn?! Intriguing! Presume that's for constipation?

Hope transfers are working...

larlemucker · 06/01/2013 03:53

small how old was your LO when you gave them a dummy? not sure how it might effect latch.

have not attempted to move ds to moses basket yet!!! I'm chickening out!

sweetpea1112 · 06/01/2013 03:54

second feed of the night - started an hour ago, now on the post - feed cuddle to sleep before attempting transfer if I don't fall asleep cuddling him first

GirlOutNumbered · 06/01/2013 04:18

Second feed of the night... Those of you using dummies, which do you use? Baby2 has been taking longer and longer over feeds and I fear he is teaching himself to suck to sleep. So how old are all the LOs. Baby2 just hit 17 weeks and is doing a great sleep regression.... He used to wake once at 4am! Sigh.....

larlemucker · 06/01/2013 04:27

my ds is now 10 days old! so we're very new to all this and up most of the night feeding.
If I could just get him to sleep in his moses basket instead of on me I could go to bed!!!

GirlOutNumbered · 06/01/2013 04:36

Keep trying larie, he'll get there. I found swaddling with a swaddle me blanket worked wonders.

BrainGoneAwol · 06/01/2013 05:02

Fail Sad
larle what about cosleeping? I would have loved to have coslept but our bed is too small for 3 (sounds like a nursery rhyme!)

Ds is 19 weeks today. Once got down to one wake between 10-7, but now I count it as great if it's only two. 4 month spurt seems to have brought lots of other things with it such as reflux and teething.

Hope silence from others is due to happy sleeping