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!

He's still awake 1.5 hours after feeding.
I'm exhausted.
Nothing I do will make him sleep and he keeps crying.
I'm losing the will....

I know it's hard writer but he will sleep soon, he will, he will, he will. Every minute is a minute closer to him falling asleep. That's what I'm telling myself anyway....

Thanks for all the clothes advice guys. I think we will gofor a whole size shift on Thursday.

Hope there is some good sleeping tonight. We had the first day of baby massage today, hopefully it will help calm him after a bath!

Done first feed here - I think he ended up doing a 3.5 hour stretch. He didn't feed for long (again) and although he is asleep in my arms he seems a bit fitful and unsettled. Hope he goes back down for a decent stretch.

Having one of those nights where I am so grumpy about bring woken up all night. I LONG for a whole nights unbroken sleep. How long will it be??

Argh...just out him down, switched the light off and closed my eyes...and he's awake.
Sometimes I really hate this and think "what have I done?!"

Some nights are so much harder than others. My friend said to me today that it won't last forever and that we will sleep through as he gets older and is weaned and is developmentally ready. It is so easy to lose sight of this when you are tired and getting woken every few hours to put someone else's needs before your own. It's relentless. But logically I know she was right. Keep on trucking Mugoo, we can make it.

Owlina - baby massage is lush! DS loves having his feet rubbed, it makes him go really still and coo.

Has anyone else moved dc out into their own room then reverted back and brought them back into their room? I'm in two minds, think I maybe put him out too soon. Don't want to confuse him though.

I'm on my first feed of the night which is good for DD. We'll ignore the sneaky settle feeds at 9pm.

She's 20 weeks today. Surely she should be sleeping through soon!!! Or I'd settle for just one feed!!
So tiring.

Woke up again here. I've been awake 2 hours now. Really want to sleep!!

He seems to be in tummy pain - trapped wind again maybe?

I always pick up put down wearing my fleecy dressing gown. As I lined the cot with a thin fleece, I found the continuancy worked. After about six months.

DS hasn't really settled for more than about 20 mins since his first feed at midnight. I feel like shit and can barely swallow. Am with mrsmugoo on the "what have I done?" thing :( And then of course when I think that I immediately feel guilty as I love him so much and so many people want babies but can't have them etc etc.

cariad and mrsmugoo - sorry you've had such a crap night. There's nothing worse than being absolutely exhausted and not understanding why they just won't sleep!!

DS eventually fell asleep at 22.15 and has slept through until 4.30am again. I'm trying to feed him now but it's not going very well as I think he has trapped wind so is being very fractious. He keeps pulling on my nipple and constantly detaching himself as he strains, all I can hear is his stomach gurgling.

Back up from 4:30 but fed properly this time, done an enormous fart and back to sleep in my arms.

Praying for another couple if hours!

Feed two - I can hear a very cheerful blackbird. Not yet blackbird, please!!!!

I hate hearing the birds. It means morning is far too close.
DS has just finished his feed and I've put him back in his MB. He's usually quite quick to settle after his 4.30am feed but I don't think that's going to happen today....

And he is still awake....

Crying and grizzling...

I may aswell just get up I think, I doubt I'm getting any more sleep.

I think I finally put him down about 5:30 but I was too tired to post! He slept til 6:50 but that was with me settling him a bit as he was grunting with wind. He also had a blocked nose do I have him some saline nasal drops and he sneezed out an enormous green bogie haha! He's cooing and gurgling away to himself in his bouncer now, happy as Larry.

Have a good day everyone - nap time soon!

Difficult one here. Slept fitfully from 10 until 3am then up until 4.30. Ds also up then and still running a temperature :( dh out this morning and so far ds still asleep so I'm desperately trying to keep the baby quiet. She's fussing on the boob and needs a poo i think. Hopefully we can all veg on the sofa this morning.

Yes definitely a quiet day here too, maybe a walk out later to get him to sleep but other than that a snuggly day I think.

Same here - staying in. Have a good day everyone. Hope naps go well!

Mine went down at about 06.15 and slept for an hour before waking again. He's just so windy. He's in his MB and he won't stop squirming and grizzling. He hadn't been this windy in ages! I'm thinking that after his next feed I'm going to give him some Gripe Water.

I hope everyone enjoys their snuggly days. I've got my BF support group at 10am, then I'm heading to ASDA, but when I get back I also plan on having a lovely lazy afternoon

Those of you that have DC older than 4 months I'd be interested to know how the infamous sleep regression worked for you. Is it a case that they start waking up more frequently or are harder to settle? Also do they start wanting more food when they wake? I'm very lucky with DD, she is pretty consistent in that she goes down after a feed between 7-7.30, I feed her again when I go to bed at 10-10.30 then she'll sleep from about 11 till anytime between 4 and 5 before settling back down till about 7/7.30. I'm making the most of it as I'm sure it will all go out the window in 4 weeks time!

Morning all. We had a better night -- the usual two wakeups but I managed to sleep better between them (which is good cos I've got a mummy fitness class later at the children's centre).

Huge sympathy to everyone who had a bad night. mrsmugoo, I frequently feel like that too. Hear him shuffling round in his crib with a sense of dread and think "No. No. You cannot be waking me up again, this is just cruel!"

pidgy my DS is 20 weeks today too! And he sounds exactly the same as yours in terms of night feeds right down to the sneaky settle feeds that we don't count cos it's too depressing and I want to tell myself that he did a 4 or 5 hour stretch for once

writer just been catching up on the thread. So sorry to hear about your MIL. We lost mine a couple of years ago (when she was relatively young) and it was really, really tough. Hugs and