How to stay awake during night feeds part 7 - put in your orders for sleepy dust!

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Can't believe we are on part 7! and I'm still here

Welcome one and all

amey hope you finally got some sleep.
Bizarrely babybrain has so far had one his best nights for ages... Weird.

larle it is amazing what they can sleep through. I think someone should make a a monitor extension for dh/dps. A deaf friend of mine had a special vibrating alarm clock that you put under the pillow. it was very effective, though it did also make a racket!

Feeding here, probably first morning feed although some more sleep would be nice.

Oh no Amey - hope you got some sleep eventually. It's so much worse when you are away from home.

Fairly quiet again - I hope that means lots of babies were sleeping!

Didn't get any more sleep - it was hideous!!! I think I will see the gp with him this week just to check his ears and see if he could have a nasal spray or some piriton or something. Can't carry on like this.... Feel like I can't function x

Hope this might cheer you up amey, Dh has just come downstairs having dressed baby larle. We were discussing how cool he looks in his tigger body warmer and Dh said yes but this will probably be the last time he can wear these socks as they only just fit him. I had a look and burst out laughing as Dh had put mittens in his feet thinking they were socks!!!!!!

amey that IS hideous and you probably really cannot function. I hope DH is on baby duty today. huge hugs and very . on your behalf.

Terrible night here too, babyfunch cried for 90% of the time between 2.15 and 5am. No idea why, did bonjela, calpol, Ewan, light show, holding, feeding and had her in bed with me. Nothing worked to get her back to sleep so DH took her downstairs at 5 and has brought her back for feeds since then so I have been having a massive lie in pre The Big Day tomorrow. Still feel crappy though.

mrsn I am still excited about work though a bit nervous about getting enough sleep. Plus a colleague has texted from school last week to say the timetable guy has messed up the changes needed for my return so Monday morning I have to go in early and try to put up notices everywhere telling pupils what room to go to as their timetables will be wrong GRRR! It is a bit like bring a mum, I have to sort everything when there is a problem!

Thanks everyone :( just feel crap about it all. DH sent me back to bed but we are still at his mums & its noisy & I can't sleep. Think I've gone past it. I really just want to go home but we have to stay for chicken casserole...... Groan. I think ill be in bed with DD at 7pm and let DH take over tonight. Sorry for your bad night too funch, sounds similar, we gave calpol, milk, bonjela & nothing worked. X

Rant approaching.....

Went down for a nap with DS at PIL's this afternoon (I let DH stay in bed till 11 to catch up from last night) and I had just nodded off when DD comes charging in waking me up & almost DS, she needs a wee. Go downstairs and they are all sat drinking wine and DH is setting up his grandmas fake iPad!!!

Said to DH that it might of been nice if he had kept an eye on DD so she didn't wake me up seeing as that's what I did this morning so he could lie in & he's just gone in a sulk n basically said whatever making me out to be unreasonable! Really fucked off AIBU?? X

Definitely not amey!! sounds like he needs reminding just how little sleep you are getting. Do you want me to come over and Have A Word in my Teacher Voice?

Definitely not being unreasonable amey, they just don't get it I don't think, when your so tired you feel ill all the time sleep becomes the most important thing and when people don't understand that it's infuriating.

Really hope you have a better night tonight-we have taken a huge step backwards which I'm praying is due to his cold so I'm up 5 or 6 times again which is hideous.

to everyone and scattering sleepy dust as I go. I'm in bed with my book and a cold to keep me company.

Definitely not amey, they just don't seem to get how hard getting up in the night and looking after Dcs are. Really hope you get a better night tonight and that you are home in your own bed.
Hope you feel better soon suzie

Thank you my fellow sleep deprived mummy's! And yes please fun! He's still sodding sulking & giving me the silent treatment. I'm going to bed as soon as the kids do. We never have blazing rows but why he can't just apologise when he's in the wrong I have no idea. X

my DH is rarely out of order but for some reason cannot apologize either. We talked about this a few weeks back and he did apologize for whatever had upset me, but it annoyed me that I had to insist, and it didn't seem all that helpful as I think he was more sorry it became a big issue than for what he had actually done iyswim. Grr. Don't give him any more lie ins or naps as he clearly won't repay the favour or doesn't think they are important!

He's probably sucking because he knows he is in the wrong really and it's guilt.
If it was reversed he'd not be happy either!

Late to bed so have a very unhappy babybrain. Serious crying and chewing of his hands, plus he's started biting me again. Surely he can't be getting his top teeth! He's only 26 weeks - I was hoping for a break after the last ones.

Hope everyone has better nights and funch hope you sleep well for tomorrow in your other mummy role

Oh no Susie!! Looking back, we were making progress in the right direction but went back to 2hourlys about 3 weeks ago (I know this because I had a training day the next day); it turned out to be teeth, or so I thought, but it's lasted said three weeks and we were looking to Babyloo as a role model and it was supposed to get better Seriously, Susie, I hope this is a blip for you and you have a better night tonight

Amey, I don't think they do get it. My DH lives with chronic pain, which is exhausting, but he thinks that trumps everything, therefore I do not know the meaning of the word 'tired' FWIW, I think every parenting couple I know has this same tiredness competition. It's ridiculous, but I really think men don't get it, or the fact it takes so long to get over pregnancy and growing the baby in the first place because you don't get caught up sleep wise for about three years! months afterwards.

Waves to everyone. Attempting bed time transfer.... Over and out.

Ooh yeah!

Hope tomorrow goes well, Funch

No Amey, not unreasonable at all. Hope he apologises and makes it up to you! And I hope you have a better night in your own house.

I think it will be bed time here soon, he's shattered.

We go home tomorrow, starting to feel sad about it. Feel so guilty taking little man away from them, especially mum - she has so loved spending time with him

Funch, was last night your last night with us?

Good luck tomorrow funch
Going to try Pilates again tomorrow so MIL having baby larle. Dh spoke to her today about leaving him crying, she said she doesn't agree with cc but will know when he is crying for something or when he is taking the piss. This seems strange considering I've spent everyday of his life with him and I'm just working out his cries, she's seen him once a week since he was born so how the hell will she know his different cries????
Am I just making excuses because I don't want to leave him with her? She's had 2 kids and this is her 3rd grandchild so I'm sure she can cope.

Thanks for all the good luck messages. I will still check in during the three or so bf sessions a day I will still have so I am not gone! DH still not sure he is brave enough to join MN but we will see

Larle, best of luck for leaving baby with mil. I am sure it will be fine but at least if he does cry a lot and you feel you can't leave him again, you will have tried.

Going to bed early tonight but probably won't sleep from whirring brain!

Good luck to all for calm nights, especially Susie, brain, amey and goat...thinking of you

Definitely not being unreasonable amey, I'd be too. Hope you get a better night tonight.

I had a sulking DH for most of today because I asked him to get up with both, yes DH I said both, of the DDs this morning because I was just so exhausted. I thought it was a perfectly reasonable request, he lay in til half 10 yesterday morning and I've never asked him to do it before so figured about time I got a little rest but oh my gosh you'd think I'd asked him to give birth for me the sulk he got on I'm still pretty pissed off actually but I will be asking him to do it again next weekend, babylump is 5 months old next week he needs to realise I'm not a machine.

Sorry that turned into a rant...

funch good luck tomorrow, hope you get lots of ready tonight and don't forget to come back and see us sometimes!

Off for my Sunday night tv fest now, catch you all later on, sleepy dust a-plenty :)

Good luck tomorrow funch!!!

Your dh more than welcome to join us.

Glad you will still be with us Funch - good look tomorrow!

Oh no Heff not another naughty DH - hope he makes it up to you as well!!

I just came across a pregnancy thread for September 2013 babies and it made me feel quite strange - this time last year that was me! It made me feel a bit sad for some reason. I must keep reminding myself that they have to go through the worry of pregnancy, labour and the first two weeks with a new born!!

Aww MrsN lovely to look back, my friend is due in sep. saw her today and was saying how much I miss my bump!!

Just found out that you shouldn't eat peanuts while breast feeding and I've been tucking into homemade peanut butter bar all week, whoops!

larle I didn't know that, what's the reasoning? Might not do me any harm to lay off the peanut butter...

mrsn I felt the same when I saw the sept 2013 thread pop up in active convos, its odd isn't it because we've got the best bit now which is our beautiful snuggly babies but I did feel a pang thinking of this time last year when I probably had my head down a toilet bowl for the hundredth time that day I saw a friend at the wedding we went to on Friday who is 38 weeks and we had the best night of baby talk, our poor DH's were a bit bored though!

Had a DSis related drama tonight so still haven't had my Top Gear fix. DH back soon so if I haven't dozed off we'll maybe have an hours cuddle and watch it, provided he's suitably gravelly after his behaviour today

funch tell DaddyFunch he'll stay saner for longer if he comes to chat with us but probably not if he strays into AIBU Hope he gets a good night too!