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!

We're trying to feed in the rocking chair in the bed room tonight so I can put him down in the cot and hopefully sleep in bed.
Managed 3 naps in cot today but at night he can feed for 2 or 3 hours so could be a while till I make it to bed, yawn

Babyloo still asleep-since 6.45-I've just had to wake up to express because boob was going to explode - I think this is the longest night time sleep ever, will now spend the rest of the night checking he's breathing every ten minutes!!

Will catch up on thread at first feed.

Fed again at 1:10 but awake again now and refusing bottle and wide awake

Babylarle just woken up after an hour in his cot, which meant I got an hour in bed!!!
Heaven!!
Bloody cold though as I've been wrapped up in a duvet!!

Congrats larle, hopefully that's the first of many.

Agree about the weirdness of being apart from dcs. Very liberating but also acutely aware it doesn't feel quite right.

Not good so far. Fed at 8.30-10.00, second feed at 12.00, woken at 1.30 .
I can't tell anymore if it's teething or straining to poo or reflux or all three. Really hope this isn't the pattern for the night...

Hope the rest of you are doing better

They will write on my tombstone, "But he was asleep when I put him in his cot."

DH has decamped to the sofa so I can co-sleep. I hope somebody gets some sleep tonight. After ages of intermittent screaming in pain, J decided to be wide awake and lay in his cot talking to himself.

Second feed here, alarm is set for 7:30 so I can be ready to leave for WW at half 9 so I hope it's a quick one!

susie that's a great stretch, hope you got a decent sleep!

funch glad your day went well - I think it's great that you are so focused!

amey aw don't be so hard on yourself, I'm sure it will resolve itself!

Transfer fail!

Think we have finally cracked it! Well baby larle has woken every hour to feed and then slept in cot.
Hope to god this isn't a one off!

Sounds like if one of us has a good night the others don't! The sleep fairy is not doing her job properly!

Agree.

Third feed here. Guess I knew this would happen when I rocked babybrain to sleep last waking rather than fed, but it's still no fun. Feeling a bit like we're back in the newborn days.

Hoping I get some sleep before the next one. Seriously in danger of falling asleep on the job.

Oof, it's the 5am feed that's the killer, isn't it?

And the 1am, 2am, 3am And 4am feeds!

Lol larle

Bit knackered to post much bit wanted to pop in and say hello.

That's great funch, sounds like self congratulations were well and truly deserved :)

mrsn really glad your first session went well, hope they continue to help.

Baby small up every two hours. Fed a full bottle at 2 and now but just wish I could eliminate the 12 and 4 wakings. Am wondering if he might be ready for food.........wanted to wait until the end of this month when he'll be 5 months but he seems so hungry. Might try some hungry milk.
Congrats on your big sleep susie

Up for the day it would appear and oh my gosh I feel so unwell :( We had Chinese last night for my dad's birthday and I felt a bit rubbish during the night but thought I was just tired, now I'm up I feel like death warmed up. How on earth am I going to manage the girls today I can barely manage myself :(

Hope there were some good nights last night x

Hmm DH took babyfunch downstairs about 3:15 in the end as she was wailing and I was losing the plot a bit. So I got a bit of sleep, then he brought her back up. Great news is that she decided to like the dummy and slept til now save waking when it fell out. And she took a bottle very happily from DH so that hasn't stopped working either despite earlier refusal. Phew.

I have sore huge boobs so am expressing like mad but it is making my nipples sore!

Heff so sorry to hear you are ill, do you want me to come over? I am completely free today.

Larle

Feeding again at 7, so that's only 2 hours. 4 month growth spurt maybe? Only just recovered from the 12 week spurt!

Hope you feel better soon heff.
Did an hour and a half feed at 5am, hubby had to take him at half 6 as I was aching all over. Ds is now awake again and feeding and hubby has gone back to sleep, I really hate him right now :(

Morning feed here, I had a shower and breakfast while little man was quite happy in his cot. I was hoping to walk to WW but it's absolutely pouring down so not happening!

Poor you heff, is it food poisoning? Hope you can get some help today and are able to rest!

Hope you feel better soon heff.

Sorry to hear you are worrying amey, I'm sure it will pass.

Well we had a great night, he woke at three and after a transfer fail and half an hour playing with the man on the moon he slept through until 7.20-no idea why but hoping for a repeat performance tonight.

Have a good day everyone.

Up again at 6.45, asked dp to see if babybrain would just settle. Ended up in bed with me but at least I got another hour. What a rubbish night - no longer than 1.5 hours sleep in any one go. Really have to get this sorted. I'm sure it should be better than this by 5 months. He's getting worse!

Hope others did better

Hi

Hope you feel better soon heff chinese did that to me in my pregnancy and I have been of it ever since

we had a reasonable night the usual 4 and then 7:30 feeds bedtime was annoying I do a nice bath at 7 for him, he dozes of straight away and then wakes up 45 min later for a fun time of let mummy hold me and watch me while I sleep . Then usually around 10 we have a sucessful transfer and thats him then some nights its closer to 11

fun why are you expressing so much are you moving baby onto bottles of expressed milk only?? that must be exhausting for you

so far this week I have been given the "give him one bottle at night" advice along with "isn't he taking food yet"

Amey don't feel bad about your daughter stammering, I think its just one of them things and hopefully she might grow out of it soon we need to be kind to ourselves as parents its tough enough as it is. I was in floods of tears when I thought I had missed that my son was being bullied at school, but then it turned out ok in the end and I am still always feeling guilty re the amount of time I spend with my other two being reduced or me being grumpy from lack of sleep and hoping they don't notice their mum has pnd its alot of pressure, but the reality is that they are ticking along just fine

I just glanced now at baby pip and omg he is actually grabbing his toys on his play gym, they really change so much at this age don't they he is 17 weeks now

ok I'm starting my weight watchers today again there has been so many articles in the paper about how it really does work so back to it I guess

hope everyone has a nice day

I sometimes feel a bit hungover after a Chinese takeaway Heff. Maybe there's a lot of salt and fat in them that's hard on your system.

I think it's the salt I had a Chinese on a sat night after being so good on weight watchers the next morning I weighed myself I had put on someone said its the salt in Chinese

Baby pip isn't taking proper feeds today it's like he is too nosey to feed properly any suggestions or maybe he isn't hungry enough and I should wait longer before offering the booby

Babybrain went through a phase of doing that toodle until recently. I found patting his bottom or jiggling him gently made him less distracted.

Agree on the rapid development. Ds is 19.5 weeks and has suddenly really got the hang of his hands and using them more accurately. Feet are beginning to come into play now. Getting trousers on him is... Interesting...