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!

Pasta - you're so right about making it to weekend....then realising it doesn't get any easier! At least during the week you feel fired up to deal with it all yourself.

Good luck with transfer from MB to cot - that was a massive hurdle. We managed successfully at 11 weeks. Tried at 10 weeks and it was a disaster, maybe he sensed my anxiety! He slept in his cot twice and I made the brave decision to pack up the Moses basket into the loft then there was no going back! Next big hurdle will be putting him in his own room..... We are going to do that in a fortnight once he is more used to napping in his room during day (ha ha ha! We all know how babies love to nap during the day!!)

Hmm, DS has been good all day but is now acting up - won't drop off to sleep and not interested in feeding either. Am guessing we are in for a bad night...

DD finally down for the night (I think) was hard work for tonight but she had another good day for naps. Going to try specific nap times once shes passed this wonder month week since it worked well for bedtime.

Very sore nips now though :( lots of wind, had to try the dummy and letting her wriggle out to give jyself a break, fortunately she settled when I gave her boob second time.

Now I'm a bit more lucid, have we any bets on how many times she'll have me up for tonight? Was 3 times last night for over an hour each and awake by 5:45am.

Cariad maybe if he knackers you himself out in the next hour he might feed and go down?

Singsong if he gets used to napping in his room you're gonna have to tell me how you did it

If I can get him to nap in his cot in his room...I'll be selling my secret and retiring to the Maldives!! Good luck to those who have started bed time.

DS has been grizzly from about 4pm including the odd screaming episode. I've just fed him and he is asleep in my arms, already dreading the transfer. I have a feeling we are in for a bad night!!

The good news is that he finally released his poo this afternoon - yay!! It was very messy but I'm hoping he will sleep better now he's no longer squirming and straining.

Gah, got DS to sleep and he was on my lap when I noticed his little ear was rather squished up against my forearm. So I decided to see if I could gently unsquish it and of course he's now up and hasn't stopped screaming!

And still no poop. Tomorrow it'll be a week since he last went but he's done that before.

I hate the "Do I or don't I?" Decisions we have to make in terms of thinking something needs doing but not wanting to wake them.

I haven't winded DS properly and I know it should, but I just can't bring myself to do it because I know it will wake him up and I can't face being back at square one

Tried to feed him to sleep again but he's still beady-eyed! He is writhing and squirming and letting off very loud and smelly farts so I wish he'd just poop already!

Mine is asleep too...time to be brave and attempt to put him down....

No poop for a week?! Jings crivens!! Poor babies, their poor tummies cause them no end of trouble.

I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for, mummies or babies.

He's never been regular - usually every 4-5 days is the norm for him but he went 3 days in a row last weekend so I thought things had changed. But nope, not since last Monday. When he does go everything is the colour and consistency it's meant to be so I guess he's not constipated, but it can't be comfortable holding all that in.

How old is DS Cariad?

Nearly 14 weeks. The GP, HV and paediatrician all said there's nothing g wrong with him as apparently it's common for EBF babies to go up to 10 days without pooping. He has plenty of wet nappies so that's good but he just seems so uncomfortable, poor thing.

Sounds like my LO, sadly it is normal and there's not a lot you can do to help. There is a light though, my DD is 17 weeks anf for the last week has gone at least once a day. Fingers crossed the same happens for you

More screaming here. Jolly good. Back to feeding him again.

Evening everyone. DS has been down since 9, did bathtime a bit later tonight as we are staying at PIL for the night and I've got a hideously painful blocked duct and needed a hot bath to try and deal with it. I can't budge it and he's fed 3 times really well on that side and still it's excruciating and rock hard right right up to my armpit. Seriously considering going to A&E tomorrow if it's not better as I have a feeling it's mastitis again. Which means ABs again, which means thrush again. FML.

When will breastfeeding get easier??

Oh god, bank holiday...fireworks on the pier >_< please if there is a god have mercy, don't let them wake my baby!

Argh! Still. Won't. SLEEP!! Next time I don't care even if his ear is falling off, I won't try to be clever!!

Ds - you insist on being held and now you want to sleep with your arm on the iPad.....really??!!!

Attempt 4 coming up...

Baby ears are very squishy - DS nearly always has his curled over.

Evening all. Hope its not mastitis Mrs :( it never rains but it pours with breastfeeding eh?!

We've had a day of long naps so hopefully sleep will breed sleep and tonight will be okay. Evening was screaming when not on boob but we're getting used to that. Lots of puking too, poor little thing. She's asleep on daddy now so I'd better get some kip. Good luck all :)

Good evening all.

Got my fingers crossed for you that it's not mastitis mrsmugoo.

Fed Fin at 9pm and he is still wide awake!

Good luck to everyone for tonight.

DS has finally fallen asleep on DP's shoulder but seeing as he hasn't had a decent feed since about 830 I'm sure he will be up again before long.

DS still isn't asleep and has been crying for over 3.5 hours now.

I've had to leave him with DH because I just can't listen to it anymore.

I'm just so tired and don't understand why he just won't to sleep.

Hope he's asleep now Writer?

We've had a run of good nights and some daytime naps in the big cot . It obviously can't last and I'm taking bets on how spectacularly awful it'll be when it goes wrong!

DD had been asleep upstairs since 7:30 and was just drifting off nicely mid feed when she was woken by another explosive nappy - grrrh. Changing her has woken her completely, so I'm having another go at feeding her again.

DD1 has been a pain the last couple of nights and I'm wondering who'll have me up first - her or the baby?!