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!

A crappy night!

DS finally slept 3:30-6:30 but won't go back down as is still squirming and writhing and grunting to try to fart bless him.

DH has only been asleep 3.5 hours, I've had 6, broken hours.

Give me strength!!

Writer - he brought him back in to feed and he feeds to sleep so really no point in handing over a sleeping baby to Dad to hold while he drifts into a deep sleep for him to then somehow put him down on my side of the double bed for sleep.

Plus, he has work today and his job is our business, our future so I can't afford for him to be off his game at work as it's out livelihood. It's already costing the business having me off, so while I'm off, my "job" is the majority of the childcare. That's the reality.

Morning all.

Franken i really admire you.

Cottage i can only offer a hug.

A rough night here, oh was working,4 dirty nappies, lots of wind and feeding Fin back to sleep only for him to fart himself awake again! I'm exhausted! Think I've had about 4hrs of broken sleep.

Thanks folks, yes DH should get 2 weeks off, probably in September as he prefers to take his leave nearer the end of the deployment so that he doesn't have long left when he goes back out there!

Sorry for the tough nights people have has. Thankfully DD is a pretty good settler otherwise I think I'd go mad over the next 6 months!

Sorry mrsmugoo - I didn't mean to offend you.

notadoctor - my DS had his first jabs last week and he was fine. However, the Rotavirus drops have caused horrendous wind and we had some really tough nights. I searched on the internet as to whether the drops could be the cause of the wind and a lot of women reported there babies had the same problem about 48 hours afterwards. I'm sure all babies are different and they don't all suffer but just something to be aware off. Personally I think DS was only so badly effected because he's prone to a lot of wind anyway.

Sounds like we've all had rough nights again for one reason or another. I got about 5 hours in total (a 3.5 block followed by a 1.5 block) but at least I've woke up feeling better than I did yesterday.

I'm off to my Breast Feeding support group now, just quickly feeding DS beforehand and he'll no doubt sleep through the entire session like he does every week...

Ahh don't be silly, you didn't offend me, just explaining why it's a slightly different scenario for us when it comes to DH helping out at night.

Spoke to The breast feeding network and I can take a 2mg of diazepam 3 times a day for 2-3 days. So happy, first step to actually getting better and closer to being able to look after my baby. Also had some good tips on adapting a cot to use like a bednest.

DS slept most of the morning away and has been awake since 3.30pm. He started to get really grizzly at about 7.30pm so we bathed him and I managed to rock him off to sleep. He was perfectly content in my arms, in a nice deep sleep but as expected, the minute I put him down in his MB his eyes were wide open and the grizzling recommenced. He's still awake now. I'm having a cup of tea then I'm going to feed him and hope he settles off. In the meantime my DH is on 'dummy duty' to try and control the grizzles!

DS has had good naps today including a ling one from 2-4:30 but he was super tired come bath time at 7pm and had a bit of a meltdown

He fed ok and went down fine at 8:30 and now I'm about to join him.

He had a big poo and a dose of gripe water before bed so I am hoping that he isn't staining to fart all night again!

Evening all. Could be a rocky one for us tonight as dd had her tt cut this afternoon and has been inconsolably crying this evening :( it seems like it hurts to feed so she's hungry and sore poor thing. I've also never heard her cry like this, a pain cry I guess, and it's horrible.

Cold cottage - so pleased you got some good advice! You must be really relieved.

Misty - sorry to hear your little one is in pain. That sounds horrible. Hopefully it will all be worth it if the tongue tie being snipped makes a difference.

Tough evening here - DH came home from work ill, he was full of cold last night and it's escalated so he's been in bed since 7pm. DS has been v grizzly, he's usually a really placid baby but has cried all evening - I don't know if it was having the jabs or more the fact the jabs interrupted his nap. DD refused to let DH bath her (I was dealing with DS) and ended up falling asleep in her jeans! She then woke 2hrs later undetstandably confused! I had to deal with both of them crying at once - she cried if I stood up from her bed, he cried everytime I sat down! Eventually DH came to the rescue and lay down next to her. Everyone is finally asleep and I'm going to turn in too - hoping that it's plainer sailing from here...

Aww Misty hugs for you.

Oh Misty - what a shame, how sad, it's so hard because they can't rationalise pain like us. I remember sobbing after LO had jabs (in a different room from him later on!) because his little gorgeous trusting face looked so confused and hurt. They can't understand that it is for their good. I really hope your LO feels better soon and is able to enjoy lots of lovely comforting feeds as a result of her snip.

Not doc - well I just don't know what to say....poor you!! Sounds like you had a heck of a time. You just couldn't make it up, could you?!

I hope you are all sleeping peacefully.

Hugs notadoctor you sound like you're having a horrendous night!

Up for second feed here. Did a lying down one at 11:45 which was not a very long stretch from 8:30! And now up 2.5 hours later :(

Hope the night is improving for everyone. New thrush treatment for dd made her puke so she has fed even more often. Desperate to get rid of the thrush but must have had it for about 3 weeks now, 2 wks before I realised it wasn't poor latch. Does that mean it's really entrenched? Daktarin cream didn't work, same with Nystin for her. Now got second course of FLuconazole and steroid cream and Daktarin gel for her. Going to check about probiotics And grapefruit seed extract tomorrow with the dr. Hideous.

Thanks for replying the other night about routines and developmental age. I was really touched.

Hope you all sleep well

Oh York that's awful I hope you get it sorted, I had the same thing a couple of weeks ago and it was agony.

Still up here - put DS down but he was straightaway writhing round with wind so I picked him up, gave gripe water did some tummy massage and tiger in the tree hold and he did a few farts and rocked him back to sleep.

Hate being awake at this time as I know he won't sleep through to morning but the birds are singing really loud and if he does another wake up ill really struggle to get back to sleep. Only had 2 blocks of 2 hours so far and not holding out for much more.

Really though my sleeping would be better by 11 weeks!

There is something about four o'clock times that I find particularly antisocial and taxing. Think it's because you know they might not sleep again or if they do it may only be for an hour....uuugh

Morning everyone

I'm smiling as someone appears to have swapped my 'crying and won't sleep' baby with another much better behaved one

I put him down in his MB at 10pm after a quick feed at 9.30pm and hoped he'd settle off. To sleep quite quickly. DS decided he'd much rather kick about, flail his arms and sing to himself and it actually took an hour for him to drop off little sod. However, he then slept for over 6 hours!! I couldn't believe it when he woke me up and I saw it was light outside. It means he went 7.5 hours between feeds which means there is potential there for sleeping through potentially being on the horizon!

I've just fed him and he's gone. Straight back to sleep in my arms so it's time to attempt the transfer and hopefully get some more sleep myself.

Sorry to those who are having bad nights. The unpredictability of these babies is insane. Good nights followed by bad nights followed by good nights... Every bedtime is like a guessing game as to how the night will pan out!

He slept through to 7:10! Well actually he woke up slightly earlier but I popped him under my duvet and cuddled him back off and he slept a little bit longer - I'm wondering if he was cold?

Anyway, I'm moderately happy with last night in the end.

Today we have hip scan at the hospital for him as he was breech and born with a slightly clicky hip and this afternoon cranial osteopath.

Oh writer that's excellent - you're so lucky your LO self settles and sleeps long stretches!

Sounds like a few good nights were had! DS took forever to get to sleep last night - was fidgety on the boob til about 1030 when he finally dropped off and I put him in the crib. He woke a couple of hours later for another feed so I took him into bed with me and must've been half asleep for the rest of his feeds during the night as I can't remember them! He was up again around 8ish so I asked DP to change his nappy and DS promptly peed all over him! He's happy in his crib looking up at the mobile at the moment - that usually lasts about 20 mins tops!

Was up for the day at 4.50am...

Morning all! Glad to hear there were some good nights. After our v stressful evening I took the path of least resistance with DS and we co slept so I actually got a fairly decent sleep. Luckily he seems himself again this morning!

Its so nice to hear success stories. Finally you're starting to catch a break. Helps to remind me that it will get better.

Singsong can I jump in that bost with you? Haven't had a night that bad since DD was a newborn. This tongue tie is screwing with babypolly's latch so badly she got constant awful wind now :(

Hi Polly... Plenty room in my boat! Am running the hair dryer to try to get a nap.....he has heavy eyes and he is lying still so here's hoping!

TT is such a shame, poor little things want to feed and poor mums want to feed...hopefully practice will make perfect, it'll take a bit of relearning I suppose. Good luck