Night feeders thread part 3 - Up all night feeding? Come join! [title edited by MNHQ]

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Part 3!

Quick recap - DS, 17 weeks, EBF (stubborn little bottle refuser), crap sleeper! Super knackered Mummy, surviving on 1-2 hour sleeps :(

So I am hoping for a better night tonight seeing as bedtime went smoothly. Last night was hideous and I've eaten a twirl, a bounty and a salted caramel brownie today just to get through the day!

No cake for me! SW this morning!! Ds2 didn't want to go back to sleep after his feed, i was so tired by that point that I just put him in his cot and he took about 10 mins to settle himself. My own biggest stretch of sleep was 4.15-7.15!! Running on empty today

And no Calpol for DS = back to waking every 2 hours! I don't feel too bad though as we had some solid sleep from about 630 til 9am. Debating whether to go out for a small walk before it gets too hot or just have an indoors day.

No sleep had at all last night. Could actually hear her little belly rumbling before her second feed. She had us both up so often, we're both exhausted. Had to beg my parents to take DD for an hour or so.

Feel like such a shit mum right now

Sympathy to all who had horrible nights. Seems like all the babies are pretty miserable one way or another and I'm sure the heat isn't helping.

We had a very slightly better night (from the point of view that the night before was the worst night ever and would be difficult to top!). Still very unsettled until about 3am, lots of crying and shrieking. I got very little sleep. But on the plus side at one point I managed to rock him back to sleep rather than feeding him, and when he woke at 3am he managed to put himself back to sleep after 20mins of grizzling and shouting (but not full on screaming). These are the straws that I'm currently clutching at.

This hot weather has turnd DS into a DEMON CHILD!!

I'm the opposite Cariad, heat making DS sleep all day and therefore - you've guessed it - feeding all night. What's he doing with you, crying ir just unsettled?

Kate, that still sound like a rough night! When DH asks how was my night (he sleeps in spare room) if I say 'good' then he assumes DS must've slept all night, while 'good' for me means he woke only 2/3 times instead of 10!

Polly I hope you are getting through the day ok, you are NOT a shit mum ??

Parents surprised us and took DD for 5 hours! Such a needed break and of course she wss good as gold for them.

I'm guessing on a wonder week as she's stopped feeding to sleep again. Anyone got any tips for when bubba stops this? Last time I was so frazzled by it I was in tears most of the time

Up doing a feed - DS has been thrashing around kicking his legs into the side of the cot for ages. I'm not even sure he was awake but it was doing my head in and no amount of gently re- positioning him was making him stop!

hi all, can i join? this seems like a good place to be right now!

im currently sat up watching peppa pig with dd4 (nearly 1 yr old) whilst feeding dd5 (1 wk old).

dd4 is teething so has woken every night for the last month. We've been up since 2.30 tonight and no amount of milk, teething gel, cuddles etc would make her go back to sleep and just as i was about to give up dd5 woke up so we came down.

I can guarantee that she'll go back to sleep soon, wake up late, not nap properly in the day and then do this god awful whinge/moan from 4pm till bedtime due to lack of sleep and hunger (has also stopped eating properly lately).

The next decision will be whether to even bother going back to sleep after i put the babies back down. The middle 3 girls will be up and raring to go by 6am.

hope everyone is getting better sleep

So a pre 3am feed - it's the earliest we've done since the start of out good run. Between the thunder and the heat he just would not settle back off to sleep in his cot so I brought him in with me at 4am and gave him the other boob which he took willingly (thirsty maybe?) and settled down straight away until 6:15 when I fed again and we got another hour. So actually not bad by our own standards although not the perfect one-feed nights we're growing accustomed to!

5 DDs mamachelle? Wow!

Welcome :)

Hello to the newbies.... I'm glad things are looking up for people. I had continuous sleep from 11-4:15 which is amazing. I'm putting it down to now breast feeding during the day and not giving Olivia EBM, the only time I can't BF is at night- the last one before bed. I express and only get 30ml so if she was latched on she would only get that much right? Or is it possible that she would tap into another source that I can't get to when expressing? Is should say that I have only returned to bf,ing this week and had previously expressed. Thanks

Aargh! Another 3hour screaming session last night -- 8.30-11.30. Then he finally gave up and slept til 3.30, woke for a quick feed and then straight back until nearly 8. So not bad in the end. But why, why why the evening screamathons??!! He is perfectly happy in the day. SIL is staying so we went out for brunch. He was all smiles, sat in his pushchair watching the world go by and let us eat our meal in peace AND read the paper. This is all very lovely, but I could really do with that happy, relaxed child to stay with us until bedtime instead of transforming into some sort of evil twin. There were points last night where I briefly considered walking out and checking into a hotel for some peace

Johull - what you can express and what baby can drink are not the same!

I can barely express a drop except first thing in the morning after not feeding for a few hours. In the evening I can't express anything but he is so much more efficient at bfing than a pump can ever be.

Me and DS stayed at my mom's house last night and he was much better. I put him in his basket at 21.30pm (his timings were all out of sync as we'd had a crazy day) and he happily lay there for 45 minutes just talking to himself before eventually falling asleep. There was no crying or screaming at all so a huge improvement from the last week.

He first woke at 01.00am so not even going 3 hours which is very unlike him. I don't know what woke him up but all he wanted was a cuddle and he was straight back to sleep. He then slept for just under 6 hours and after feeding him at 07.00am we both went back to sleep.

My mom heard DS stir about 1.5 hours later so she came into my room and took him- I didn't rouse at all whilst this was going on, I just woke up another hour later to find DS was not in his Moses Basket where I had left him

So definitely a big improvement on how things have been. He was just like this after his first lot of Rota Virus drops and it lasted a few nights, so I think we've just had the same. I'm glad they don't have the drops alongside their 3rd lot of immunisations!!

kate - you have my complete sympathies. I honestly have no idea why settled daytime babies can turn into screaming monsters at night and scream and scream for hours!!! It's insane!!

DS has just gone down for bed an hour late due to a late sleep in the car on the way home from family lunch.

DH is out at a wedding reception and I'm enjoying a beer by myself - lovely!

DS has only had a few short naps today and is still full of beans. I think it's going to be a looooong night...

Oh FFS! He drifted off, I sneezed, and the baby who doesn't stir when ambulances drive past with sirens blaring is wide awake AGAIN!!

We are rapidly approaching the 'over tired' stage over here.

Constantly crying, only stops when I pick him up, just the usual.
He lulled me into a false sense if security last night.

I have a feeling it is going to be a long night ahead - made even worse by the fact that because I'm at my mom's I'm super, super aware of the noise he is making and feeling guilty about it!

I suppose one good thing about DS only ever doing 3 x 30 minute sleeps in a day is that he always goes down easily at bedtime because he's shattered! Small blessings!

Hi everyone. DH is taking DS in the spare room tonight...and I can't sleep, because I feel like I've lost a limb ?? What the frig is wrong with me!

Totally normal Batmam - there's no way I could sleep if DS wasn't next to me, I can't even bring myself to think about transitioning him to his Nursery I'm staying at my moms at the moment and eve though my bedroom is massive and I have loads of extra floor space, DS's Moses Basket is still squashed up as close to my bed as is possible

I was the same when he was a very tiny baby, if I couldn't see him it really used to feel like part of me was missing.

We had a better night last night in that even though DS screamed for ages he was asleep by 22.15pm (early by the weeks usual standard) and didn't wake until 05.45am. A nice 7.5 hour which is something we'd haven't had in a while!!

I'm just feeding him now then he'll hopefully have a few more hours.

Well the 3 weeks we had of sleeping 7-9 hours is over. Last few nights it's been one get up and a stretch of 4-5 hours and last night 2 get ups tho ds1 had a better night and didn't wake at all 7-7 so he's getting back to his normal at least!

Ds2 was 11 weeks yesterday so I'm hoping it's just a growth spurt

Morninng everyone. Total of about 8wake ups last night, 4 for me snd 4 for DH. My eyesight keeps going blurry.

DD has taken to evening/middle of the night screaming... its a bit like before she had the lansoprasole. Though in the evening I can just about get her to feed to calm down, this doesn't work at night unless shes hungry.

Please say this is a growth spurt - waking up twice is a godsend by vomparison to this