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

Mrsmugoo, well done for giving it a go. I am too chicken!

I'm not up for sleep training just yet, but it's good to give him the chance and just see how he gets on.

He has fallen asleep drowsy a couple of times but he was SO drowsy there wasn't much self settling going on, he was already well on the way to sleep.

Well, rather excitingly DD managed to roll from her back to her front yesterday afternoon and hasn't stopped doing it since! I'm wondering if this might be the start of the sleep regression, as it usually coincides with the development of a new skill, as last night she woke at 4.45am and didn't go back to sleep till 6! It's very unlike her, I fed her at 5 and put her back in her cot at 5.20 but she stated awake kicking and cooing - she's never done that before she usually nods straight back off. We'll have to see what happens tonight!

Midnight - my DS always start crying and screaming like crazy when he's overtired. The way I deal with this is pick him up, put him over my shoulder and sing his favourite nursery rhyme into his ear until he calms down. I will sway with him for a good 5 minutes, still singing the nursery rhyme and once he has gone quiet I put him back in his Crib but still quietly sing the nursery rhyme to him for a few more minutes. Sometimes he drifts off during this process and sometimes he doesn't. Once he is back in his Crib I wait and see what his reaction is, sometimes he will just nod off and other times he will grizzle. If he grizzles I leave him and this is usually a precursor to him falling asleep but if he really starts crying again I pick him up and repeat the process. It can be a bit relentless but eventually he does fall asleep.

I also find that when I put him back in his Crib if I give him one of Muslins to hold it will settle him down as the smell of our milk is really supposed to calm them. Or sometimes I will drape the top I have worn that day over the side of the Crib, again because he can then smell me. Once he has fallen asleep I take the muslin/clothes away to ensure he doesn't pull them over his face in the night.

At the end of the day though, some babies are just ready for self settling earlier than others. I would say try it for a few nights and if it really doesn't work and leads to complete melt down then knock it on the head, wait another week and then try again.

Frank congrats on the rolling! it's so exciting isn't it? DS learned to roll and sprouted two teeth in the same week I felt like we were in development overdrive!

Just to offer a glimmer of hope about the sleep regression, I found my DS's sleep got really unsettled just before he learnt to roll, and settled down a bit afterwards apart from waking himself up rolling in his crib. It was as if trying to learn the skill was keeping him awake and once he mastered it he was like "Ahhh, I can relax now..." So maybe your DD will escape the unsettled sleep?? Of course, now I've said that, I've probably jinxed it... sorry

We've had a couple of decent nights here, hence my absence from the thread. He's been doing a couple of hours before we come to bed, then a 4(ish) hour stretch, then a 3 or 3.5 hour stretch, and then sometimes back to sleep for another hour if he's feeling generous. Napping's become a bit of minefield though. It's often on mummy's lap or not at all. In other news we did abdominal exercises at my mamafit class yesterday and this morning I can hardly move!! Hoping for abs of steel

Thanks Kate, thankfully she's not tried rolling in bed yet - but I've read about the rolled up towel solution to try and prevent that! This morning she's started trying to go for a secondary roll, so I suspect it won't be long before I have a little bundle rolling across the living room floor!

Evening ladies. Just about to put sleeping DS down, eat some food and them clamber in with him.

Hope you have a good night mrsm, we had a better bedtime today - no screaming like yesterday so I'm hoping she sleeps better tonight!

Terrible unsettled day he hasn't fed longer than 10-12 mins since 10am this morning.

That's the first time the boy's settled down without crying for ages! Hoping this is a good omen...

Good luck all!

DS was up far too early at around 730ish and I'm hoping it was just a random occur acne as 9ish is more usual for him. He hasn't had a bad day - had a very long nap in the middle of the day, a shorter one around 7pm and still bright-eyed but reasonably cheerful. Hopefully he'll settle after his next feed.

Today I left him in his bednest with one side down on our bed and when I came back into the room he was on the bed and on his front! So I have to be extra vigilant now!!

Well we are up feeding already :(

Yesterday he slept til 1, today he's up by 10:30. No two days are the same!

Oh great. Now he's wide awake. He won't feed to sleep or be rocked. I have no way of getting him to sleep. I'm currently ignoring him and trying not to cry.

He's nearly 4 months FFS. WHY won't he just sleep at night??

I have just had to pace the floor rocking him like a newborn - he weighs a bloody tonne!

This is not good.

Why are some nights amazing and some utterly, utterly crap? It's only flipping midnight as well, who knows what horrors I have in store for me over the next 6 hours...

I'm only thankful my MIL is visiting tomorrow so I will be able to get done time out and a nap.

Mrsmugoo, I ask myself exactly the same questions! Did he settle back down for you? We are up for a first night feed...

Oh just seen your new post. Hopefully he is on his way to sleep now...I still have rock mine to sleep every nap and nighttime so I feel your pain.

I find him too heavy and cumbersome to rock in my arms really, so it's boob to sleep then in the bouncer for naps so I can rock to keep him asleep.

Yes he's finally down. Now to try for some more sleep...

Oh we love our bouncer too and I'm dreading the day he grow out if it.

Time to put mine down too...

Up again here!

Us too. It's still very close and warm in our room so I guess he's thirsty.

First feed was 2am so we got a 4.5 hr stint, we got up for the day at 5.30 tho

It's my first SW meeting this morning, hoping both boys behave!! Parents here later so will try to nap when my dad takes DS1 out for a walk

Morning all - sorry for the rough nights. Definitely take advantage of your MIL today mrsmugoo

DS slept loads last night. He went from 17.45pm-22.00pm then woke up for a bit of a play and a feed. I put him back in his crib at about 22.45pm and he was asleep within 10 minutes. He then slept for another 6.5 hours, had a quick feed at 05.30am, straight back to sleep and has only just woken again.

In the last 15 hours he's been asleep for 13.5 of them

I think he's just catching up on all his missed sleep over the last few days - when he was on the antibiotics his stomach was giving him that much trouble he never seemed settled or comfortable. Now they're out of his system he seems to be able to sleep much better.

He's feeding again now and I definitely don't think he will be falling asleep again like he usually does

Well I was wrong about that - he's gone back to sleep again...

Wow writer you do have a dreamy baby!

This morning he woke up about 6:45 and instead of getting up I just gave him some toys and dozed next to him til about 8. Then I fed him and he played a bit more until 9 when he had a nap still in my bed and I dozed next to him. Pretty chilled morning!