Calling all nighttime feeders!! Let's all keep us company during those early hours of the morning when we're feeding instead of sleeping!

[Writerwannabe83]

This is a thread for everyone to chat to each other about their experiences of night time feeding, the good, the bad and the ugly!

There are already a few of us who have been chatting about this in another forum for a few months now but we want to migrate over here to meet more sleep deprived parents!!

Log on and post, no whatever silly hour it is, and vent away about how knackered and stressed you are!! There's a good chance someone else is up and feeding crying with exhaustion too!!

Introductions: I have a 7 week old son, first baby and exclusively breastfeed. He's normally a nightmare to settle to sleep, screaming for hours on end, but will go for 5 hour stretches of sleep!

I'm up doing his usual 3am-ish feed. He slept for 3.5 hours since his last feed......where have the days gone where he'd sleep for 5?! Seriously hoping this is just a blip

Are you still feeding love? How long do your night time feeds take and does DS take ages to go back to sleep like most of our babies seem to??

Don't believe this - he's not even fed for 5 minutes and now he is out cold!!

He's disturbed my sleep for a 5 minute munch?! little sod

First feed since 10.30 so she's done 6 hours. Pretty good but at this time the challenge is resettling her so I get the chance for another sleep before the radio alarm comes on at 6!

We're up!
Finished the dream feed at 11ish and DD (9 weeks EBF) slept til 4.15. Unfortunately DD1 has already summoned us on several occasions for various quilt and teddy bear related emergencies, so I've been up a couple of times.

She's wide awake at the mo but fingers crossed she dozes off at some point and I get another couple of hours before DD1 wakes us all for the day.

Well we are up for the first time! Yes tonight he has slept for 6 hours for the first time. Must be the jabs.

I am so glad to be doing all this night time cavorting about in these spring months. Must be so cold doing it all in the winter!

Sounds like there have been some good babies!!

After his 5 minute snack at 3am Das turned into a nightmare. He refused to feed but wouldn't go to sleep. To cut a long story short he was just messing around for an hour before finally dropping off at gone 4am. I predicted that due to him only feeding for 5 minutes he would soon be awake again due to hunger and I was right. 1hr and 40minutes later he's awake and crying so I'm feeding him now.

I so, so tired, I can barely keep my eyes open! DS is also shattered, can't be bothered to feed properly and do keeps loosening his latch and nipple feeding! Ouch!!

I don't believe it - he's bloody fallen asleep after only 10 minutes this time! Grr!

I'm going to try and put him back in his MB and hope for the best!

Fx writer he stays asleep for you.

Well DD decided not to wake up until now. So that's one wake up. Probably won't happen again

Twentieth I know how you feel. Sometimes they are worse than babies

Ugh. Awful night. Have horrid cold. Guess I'm up for the day now too. Just wanted a little whinge before I put the smile on and get on with things.

I'm crap at having minor illnesses - I never get them except when I'm bloody breastfeeding.

I managed to ger her back down by 5 so got another hours sleep. Doing first feed of the day and clock watching as nobody is dressed yet and dh has gone to work already. I am regretting my extra few minutes in bedcwhen I should have been in the shower!

fruit - I completely understand. One of my first thoughts at this time of day is, 'when am I going to get a chance to shower?!'

DS is still up an hour later! He has been sick twice so required a change of clothes which obviously perked him up. Then DH appeared from the room so DS wanted to play with him for a bit. He's since gone back to the breast but only for another 5 minutes and now he's drifting off in my arms. It's times like this that I wish I was brave enough to co-sleep!

Morning all, we ha a good night here. DD fed at 10pm then slept from 10.30-5, bar a bit of grumbling which woke me up a few times but not enough for her to wake fully. She fed at 5 and input her back down at 5.15 but she didn't go back to sleep properly so we both dosed till I gave up trying to sleep and got up at 6.45. We're now feeding again.

On the nappy front, I don't change at night unless there is poo or she's obviously bothered by a wet one. Touch wood she's not really a night pooer and seems happy to stay in the same nappy from 10 till 7ish. I use Aldi nappies, I don't know if they hold more!

Morning all - I wasn't posting through the night as was sleeping hoorah!

Co sleeping is changing my life - we finally settled down about 10:30 and I fed at 1:30 and 5, each time just latching him on and going back to sleep! He just sleeps so much better when he's in with me he's like a different baby.

I don't plan on doing it forever as we're only in a standard double and DS does like to sleep starfish but for now it means we are all getting more sleep and it's surely helping the baby understand day from night. I'm pretty sure he just thinks he's napping when he sleeps alone!

On the nappy front - we don't change wets in the night any more. Pampers baby dry hold 12 hours of wet and start at size 2.

I don't change a nappy at night unless it's dirty either. Unfortunately she's still a prolific pooer though, so we tend to need to change it. I think it's usually pooing that wakes her rather than hunger tbh.

Glad you had a better night MrsM

Yay for sleeping babies! Mine is now asleep in the pram ready to go to school. She did complain a bit but I just cannot carry her round while I am sorting everything else!

I even got my shower as she likes to sit in her bouncy chair and look out of the big window first thing in the morning when she is well rested and full. Go me!

We started off well but then I made the mistake of putting DS down without winding him properly -he went down fine but then woke up squawking shortly after and woke up DD. I ended up co-sleeping with one either side of me. They were both spark out snoring sniffly little snores but I was wide awake after all the commotion. (Including v specific instructions from DD "no Mummy, I want to sleep UNDER your tummy" erm...) Trying to hold on to the fact that I'll look back on it all with loving nostalgia one day!

Aww, what a lovely image notadoctor though probably not as lovely in reality, I realise.

Pretty okay night here. I indeed didn't disturb dd when she fell asleep feeding at 11pm but she was wet through by the 2.30am feed so I had to change her completely and that may be why she was then awake until 4am... Yawn. Then slept til 6ish had another quick feed (I needed her to!) then puked it all back up. Up at 8am and Now asleep in the sling on daddy :)

Anyone else enjoying a bed of wee/milk/sick?! She's in sainsburys size 2 nappies but they don't seem to last her more than 6hrs or so. She seems to have stopped pooing at night already so it'd be good to go through on one nappy.

That's brilliant mrsmugoo - can I ask, with feeding whilst lying down at night, do you use the same breast each time? Or do you swap positions with baby in the night so he feeds from the other one at the next feed?

DS stayed asleep in his MB at 07.30 so I had myself another 2 hours sleep. He's just had another feed and is curled up asleep on my chest - I need to think about getting out of bed really.....

Hey guys, marking my place

Hope you're all well xxx

Writer - when it's just the two of us in bed I switch sides but when DH is in the bed too I jus feed from the one side and use the other side twice in a row in the morning.

Yay for sleeping babies! Mine is now asleep in the pram ready to go to school. She did complain a bit but I just cannot carry her round while I am sorting everything else!

I even got my shower as she likes to sit in her bouncy chair and look out of the big window first thing in the morning when she is well rested and full. Go me!

Hi all. Marking my place. Will be back later. Ds got two vaccinations today and it is bumpy here in our house.

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