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

I was told the lie abut dropping a feed too! I think they just tell us that to stop us throwing ourselves under a bus because of the constant feeding in the first few weeks!

I have no idea how to institute a bedtime for DS as he will only sleep in his crib when we are in bed too. He also still feeds every two hours at night but I've managed to get the hang of feeding him in my sleep so I don't feel too knackered the next day. I think my DSIL disapproves of my methods as she tells me to use the crying it out method to make sure he gets used to his crib (as she did with my nieces) but I think DS is a very different baby to them and needs me more.

Welcome snoozy! Definitely don't have expectations! DS1 was a dream baby and I keep comparing them and I shouldn't! Ds2 is 8+1 and sleeps anywhere between 4-8 hours overnight, very occasionally less than 4 so I can't moan! However ds1 is just turning 15 months this week so I have my hands full!!

Evening all. Doing bedtime routine a bit later today as I took DS to Glastonbury for the day today and we only got back at 7 and he slept all the way home (an hour).

I'm shattered from carrying around in the sling all day!

Ah thank you all writer cariad cannot

I will get rid off the expectations, I'm sure he'll settle in his own time. It just leaves me so tired, we don't much during the day....other than feed him of course

Surely one of Glastonbury's youngest punters MrsM?! I hope the excitement has tired him out! Any highlights?

Welcome snoozy

How cool mrsmugoo, not even a year old and already a glasto veteran!

Both boys in bed asleep (DS1 since 7 and DS2 10 minutes ago), I hate to wish time away but can't wait for ds2 to start sleeping thru so I can have a bit of my evening back!!

He's got his injections tomorrow, dreading it as DS1 cried so much after his first lot but has been fine since with them all.

Up feeding already.

Snoozy you had better not read my posts! DS is almost 16 weeks now and we're still doing the 2 hourly wake ups and he's militantly EBF.

Oh and LOLZ at it getting easier at6 weeks! Did it bobbins! That was when I had mastitis and it was waaaaay harder than the comparatively easy early weeks.

Up again FFS

Sooooo effing tired. Really need more than an hour and a half's sleep at a time :(

Oh mrsmugoo up for feeding now... I did wonder if it was at all possible for such a significant change in pattern at 6 weeks ie. 3 more days, seems more and more unlikely the more I hear from you mumnetters

My LO currently falling asleep whilst feeding so having to wake to remind him to finish fingers crossed this doesn't mean he needs feeding even more frequently than usual!

I hope it gets better/easier for you mrsmugoo

I hope it gets easier you because night after night of this at almost 4 months is actually breaking me.

He only naps for 40 minutes at a time in the day too so no joy on catching up with sleep then.

Ah I'm so sorry to hear that

I'm a total novice to all this so don't have any advice

Is this your first baby? it's been 4months, surely it must settle soon? I genuinely really hope it does for you, the sleep deprivation must be agonising.

Yes first baby.

Surely. You'd think.

Who knows? I never thought I'd still be surviving like this at this stage. Really thought by now he'd be lasting at least 3-4 hours at a time.

I think in one of your last posts you mentioned trying a bottle of formula in evening...have you tried it tonight?

The fact you're surviving is amazing , I am in something akin to awe for you that you've managed so long and I'm already struggling at this stage

Well DS slept earlier from 3.30pm-7pm - he was so tired I didn't have it in me to wake him. I fed him at 7pm and his stomach just kept gurgling which resulted in him being sick about 3 times.

I took him up to bed about 20.30 and spent a good 45 minutes trying to feed him but he just wasn't interested, which never happens, so assumed her had a bit of a tummy bug/discomfort. I put him in his crib at 9.45pm and he dropped off about ten minutes later.

I know that because he hadn't fed since 7pm and been sick quite a bit it meant we'd be up in the early hours of the morning but I'm surprised he went over 5 hours. It's been a long time since my body saw 3am.

He's had a good feed and is now back in his Crib but he seems to think its time to sing and play I'm purposefully avoiding all eye contact and just leaving him to it - he always drops off eventually.

mrsmuggoo - I was also going to ask if you'd had any luck with the formula??

He will not drink from a bottle full stop. I will keep trying but I just can't see it happening.

Well DS went just under 8 hours, fed at 5.15am and went back to sleep at 5.45, he's asleep now but restless and I'm up with ds1

How long does your newborn go between bottle feeds through the night? Is it normal to be feeding every 3-4 hours?

Get yourself a big syringe mrsmugoo and squirt your EBM into him

cannot - glad you had a good chunk of sleep.

moomin - definitely normal.

DS finally fell asleep at 4am and slept for another 4 hours. I've just put him back in the Crib and waiting for him to doze off again so I can grab myself a cup of tea and some breakfast

Morning all.

Hi snoozy, welcome . Sympathy to you, I remember the early weeks and what a shock they were. I don't have any advice I'm afraid, just that things will either get better or you will get more used to it and you won't feel quite so awful all the time. My DS definitely didn't get magically better at 6 weeks, but now at 23 he usually does 3-4 hour stretches and sometimes more and sometimes he decides to wake up every hour and a half but you can't win 'em all

We've had a good(ish) night last night on the back of a hellish one on Saturday. Full on screaming and refusal to settle at all between 3.30 and 5.30. Don't know what the matter was... Either teething or the fact that he's got a really snuffly snotty nose. Whatever it was the poor little soul was NOT happy. I hope we don't get many more nights like that.

Morning!
My DS is being a monkey...rustling in his cot from 4am having a quick suck for about 5mins and then falling asleep. He's been doing this all morning. I just need him to do a proper feed but he doesn't seem interested! I need to get my 4 yr old to her big toddle this morning as well!

He's 6 wks old today .... Not expecting any miracle changes! I'm so tired and have realised that I really hate breastfeeding!!!

Oh no Olivia - why do you hate it? Have you tried a dummy as it sounds like your DS just wants to suck as opposed to feed. Babies are born with a natural desire to suck as it makes them feel comforted regardless of what they're sucking...nipples, dummies, fingers etc...

I introduced a dummy when DS was 4-5 weeks old because if he wasn't sucking he was crying. It was an absolute life saver when it came to getting DS to sleep!!

He discovered his hands about 2 weeks ago and now isn't interested in a dummy because now he just lies in his crib sucking his fingers until he drops off.