Calling all night time feeders - always up feeding when we should be sleeping! Let's keep each other company PART 2!!

[Writerwannabe83]

I think to start the new thread off we should reintroduce ourselves and our babies for the sake of our own memories and also for any newbies who may join

I have a 10 week old DS who is EBF. Has been sleeping through the night for the last week and I'm just waiting patiently for things to go downhill as I'm sure they will

Not posted for a little while as I'm trying to stay off my phone at night - now that I am less bone-shatteringly exhausted too much night time screen time was stopping me dropping off.

DS has fallen into quite a predictable pattern of sleeping between 4-6hours from (when he and I both go to bed for the night) and then waking at 5ish. After that point he'll only sleep on me so we snuggle and doze until DD1 wakes up at around 6.30am. It's feeling quite manageable but I'm sure something will happen to change the pattern now that I've got used to it!

It's 22.50pm and he's still crying and grizzling. I'm just about ready to throw myself out the top floor window. He's been awake now for 10 hours straight!!

Calpol has had absolutely no effect - not that I expect it too because it's such a piddly dose. If anything it makes him more annoyed.

Over the last week every single night has been a case of him crying, screaming and grizzling for hours on end - its driving me mad.

Asleep at 11pm, up at 3, just fed for 24 mins and back down in cot now. Hope he goes til 7ish

Hope everyone else's night is going ok

Up at 2, up at 3.30...and need to be up early for 16 week jabs...oh dear

I hate it when early mornings are needed! I remember when DS was about 6 weeks and so I was still feeding constantly through the night and the HV was coming to do his 6 week check at 09.15am

DS went just under 6 hours. I'm feeding him now and then as soon as he's backing his Crib I'm rolling over and planning on getting some more sleep. I must have been and to get up at 5am yesterday and think it was a good idea!

Oh writer it's so stressful sleep deprivation and screaming are a recipe for despair sending hugs your way.

Good luck for the jabs midnight.

As silly as it sounds I think we might be having the 4 month sleep regression here a month early! Fin is 12 weeks on Wednesday but for the last 3 nights he's gone from sleeping 5-7 hours to waking constantly crying, only wanting me and refusing to nap during the day! Last nightwear slightly better he woke up crying roughly every 15mins between 9.30 and 2am but then he slept till 5.30, hallelujah!

Writer, hope your little one is feeling better.

Thanks Puggy, I am dreading it. I ended up getting up with him again at 4.30 and then he did one more hour asleep and we had to get up properly at 6

Were you overdue with Fin puggy? I know that the Wonder Weeks is based on your EDD rather than actually date of delivery and they have it down as starting before 16 weeks anyway. I know that DD1's sleep definitely went to pot before she was four months.

We had another good night with just the one feed when i woke her before going to bed. However I'm absolutely knackered for some reason. Roll on bedtime!

A better night here thank god! He fussed at bedtime but I think it's because we are at PIL's and he had a late nap in the car on the way here but he was down by 9:30. Feeds at 1ish and 4ish and up for the day at 6:45 which is a positive lie in in our world.

I feel so much better for getting a couple of 3 hour stretches in. If I have more than a couple of really sleepless nights in a row that's when I start to lose the plot a bit!

There's also a 12 week growth spurt that can affect sleep puggy, so it could be either. I was reading some more on sleep regressions and not every child goes through all of them, there is also one at about a year old and another at about 18 months. I spoke to my friend about her little boy and she said he didn't go through the 4 month or one year regression, but had a horrendous time with the 18 month one which lasted two weeks

There's also a 12 week growth spurt that can affect sleep puggy, so it could be either. I was reading some more on sleep regressions and not every child goes through all of them, there is also one at about a year old and another at about 18 months. I spoke to my friend about her little boy and she said he didn't go through the 4 month or one year regression, but had a horrendous time with the 18 month one which lasted two weeks

Thanks for the advice twentieth and Frankel Fin was 1 week overdue.

Glad you had a good night mrsmugoo.

Hope everyone has a lovely day.

We didn't get the 4 month or 12 month regression with DS1, don't think we will be so lucky this time!

A better night here. DS dropped off around 1030pm, we put him in th crib and he only woke twice after that for feeds. He was up around 8 this morning so I put him in the crib again and he played by himself a little and then dropped off again. This has never happened before!!

That's great cariad!

Morning all.

That's good news cariad

Glad you got a little bit of a lie in mugoo

We drove home from my parents' yesterday so had quite a late bedtime as DS slept a lot of the way. Not a bad night at all. Up for feeds at 10.30, 2.20 and 6. Then back to sleep (self-settled no less!) until 7.20. I lay awake between 2.20 and about 4, but it wasn't too bad as he didn't wake me up again until 6.

I've decided we need a new mattress though. I had far fewer problems getting back to sleep while at my mum and dad's and now we're back home I think our mattress might be a factor. I like a nice soft mattress but this one feels like a brick but of course it's good for our spines as DH insists on telling me

Sounds like there's been some good and bad nights then,

DS was back asleep by 05.30am and I think I fell back to sleep straight away too so at least we've had another 3.5 hours. He's woken up all smiley, has had his antibiotics and is now feeding.

The weather is gorgeous overs here, I definitely think a walk through the park is in order

Jealous of your nice weather writer - we've woken up to grey skies for the first time in days up here.

I didn't notice any sleep regressions at 12 and 18 months with DD1 - so struggling with one definitely doesn't mean you'll be hit with them all. And we seem to be over the phase of night waking that she went through just after DD2 was born. I just wish she wasn't such an early bird!

DD now 25 weeks. Slept through (8 - 8.... amazing) from 12 weeks until two weeks ago when she stopped with a vengeance. Back co sleeping and constant mummy dummying. So depressed.

Oh dear madcat - it must be hard to go from such a good sleep routine (I'm jealous you had that) to being a dummy again. I had a few weeks of DS being a good sleeper, settling nicely by himself, asleep by 9.30pm at the latest, sleeping 7-8 hours etc and I think I got a bit complacent. Things have now gone very backwards and it's so disheartening so I feel your pain!!

Well if no one minds me joining in with my giant child, here we go.

Last night toddler went to sleep fine after a busy day running about, slept 8.15pm until 12.30am when we had to walk across the landing to go to bed, which wakes her up. I did an hour of shushing and patting, dh did a half hour of rocking her, she fell asleep on him so he put her in the cot but she woke up and had a meltdown. That woke eldest child at around 2am, who also got the rage about being woken up. Tried taking toddler into our bed to keep her away from eldest child but toddler thought this was playtime and kept stamping on our heads. Gave toddler some milk to calm her down and eldest went back to sleep. Tried putting toddler back in bed but she cried every time we left the room and we were worried she would wake eldest up again. Dh took a blanket in her room and laid by her cot for a while but got pelted with all her bedding constantly. He tried ignoring that but she climbed out of the cot and landed on his head. At past 3am and no one having gone to sleep yet, I took her downstairs for twenty minutes and re-did the bedtime routine to give her the idea she was to go back to sleep. Including more milk and a story. This worked and by 4 am she was back asleep.

At 5am DH's alarm for work went off and woke toddler up for the day. He dealt with her for thirty minutes before leaving for work, so I slept for around 1 hour 20 minutes last night, and he got around 2 hours.

This is not an unusual pattern. If she stays asleep all is fine, but she wakes up very very easily and once up starts a new cycle, like it is morning. Meaning nightly wake ups are easily four hours long.

Do I need to start a toddler sleeping thread?

Bloody hell Ida!!! And we all thought we had it bad!
Wake ups lasting 4 hours....sounds horrendous.

The only thing that keeps us going it thinking things will get better in the future but I guess your post has proved otherwise

You have my total sympathy.....it sounds exhausting and I felt worn out just reading your post!

How old is your eldest child??

Evening ladies, doing bedtime feed here. DS hasn't slept well today, just a handful of catnaps so god knows how he'll be tonight.

Same here mrsmugoo - DS has had an horrendous day in terms of sleep. In the last 9 hours he's probably had two 30 minute naps. He's been grizzling and crying for most of the day. It's definitely the antibiotics that are upsetting him, he was exactly the same when he was on them at 10 days of age. His stomach is constantly gurgling and he just looks so uncomfortable all the time.

He's fell asleep on me during his feed but I'm too scared to make the transfer as I couldn't face it if he woke up.

Has anyone else been that desperate for their baby to sleep that you'd happily hold them in your arms for hours on end just so you can get some peace without risking waking them up??

Oh yes! First 6 weeks of DS's life if he wasn't feeding or sleeping he was screaming so I'd hold him in my arms for ages and watch Netflix just for peace. Can't do that now he's distractable though!

Haven't had too bad a day apart from a frustrating trip to the post office to sort it DS's passport. Was told that because I'd dated in 2 days after my friend countersigned and dated it it would not be accepted. So I have to fill in the form AGAIN and get my friend to re sign it! Am so pissed off. And we are moving at the start of August but they a) can't guarantee the passport will be ready by then and b) won't send it to an alternative address. So we are just putting DP's parents address on it. He still gets some mail there so if we have to prove we live there it won't be a problem. But how annoying!!