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

[mrsmugoo]

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!

Evening all ( )

Well, all was going well until my f-ing cough woke DS up! Aaaarrrgggg. So pissed off. DH has gone down stairs and I'm syringing sniffing olbas oil to try to loosening things.

writer my thoughts are also that he maybe over tired. DS can have a nap that finishes at 6 but will still need to go to bed at 7!

Its soooo hot here

DS patterns of naps are crazy, some days he will have naps of 5 hours long and other days he will be awake for over 8 hours in a row. What I have learnt though is that his bedtime routine doesn't seem to have any correlation with his nap times, sometimes he will sleep loads in the day and still settle early at night and some days he'll have no naps at all and still settle early at night - and vice versa. It just seems to be hit and miss.

He ultimately went 6 hours so I can't complain. He's just finished a huge feed and is now back in his crib - I'm hoping for a few more hours!!!

Leap 3 is finished, another 9.5 stretch last night. Not sure why I still feel tired? My back is in agony am gonna have to ask for physio, it's not been right since being pregnant with DS2

DS didn't settle til close to 11pm last night but only got up once before waking again at 6.30am. That was far too early for him so ed him back to sleep and he's been sleeping fitfully since. Am not pleased as he usually goes til 10am. Apparently he's due for another Wonder Weeks leap so the next few weeks will be fun for me. Not!

Another late settle for us last night but only about 3 wake ups. So I actually feel human again!

I am now going to enforce a new bedtime thing - at 5pm I want everyone in my house to bugger off and DH to disappear. Its so much easier to get DD to sleep when it's just me and her

DS did fall asleep after his 05.00am feed but was awake again at 06.50am. He fell asleep again at 07.30am but was up by 09.00am. So it's been a bit crap this morning.

polly - I totally empathise. My DH is currently off work and his presence is certainly having an effect and not necessarily a good one. It also means he's in our room all night as opposed to going to the spare room and when he's lying next to me it makes it so much harder for me to go back to sleep after feeding at silly hours. All my routines are all out of whack due to DH being around. I asked DH to wash and dress DS about 15 minutes ago but he's still sat in bed (watching a programme on his iPhone) whilst DS is curled up in his arms. I'm pretty sure it won't be done within the next hour, if not longer. Grr!!

Despite me gearing up for an awful night we actually had our best ever night last night - he went from
Dreamfeed at 10:30 all the way through to 6am and then back to sleep in with me til 8!

We briefly woke up at 3am and I straightened him up because he had wriggled around 90 degrees and got his legs in the bars but it was barely a grunt from him and then back to sleep.

And my insomnia seems to have buggered off and I actually got good sleep too.

Resorted to putting fan on in the bedroom last night as it was boiling and ds was boiling but would only settle being cuddled. He's been sleeping in just a vest with a blanket over his bottom half this week and the same last night. He slept from 11 til 3! I couldn't believe it! He then slept from 4 til 6 and then was awake for almost 3 hours this morning as usual fussing between feeding, filling his nappy and just wanting cuddles. The other thing I did last night out of need rather than anything else as my wrists are killing me was feed him lying down so when he dropped off to sleep it was easier to move him to crib as I was moving him from one flat surface to another if that makes sense? I'm sure this is a fluke but I'll take it for now!

Hello! Didn't post yesterday as I was so fed up after the worst screaming session yet. But last night was a huge improvement: managed to feed him and put him down drowsy but awake at just before 9. He woke up screaming at 10.15, but I managed to do the same thing again and he then slept 11 to 5(!) And 5.30-8.30

I actually had to wake him up so we could get to sing and sign on time!

It might be a one-off because he was so exhausted from the previous night's shenanigans, but at least we had one excellent night

Another one here who had a relatively good night last night! Inspired by mrsmugoo's post yesterday about self-settling I tried to settle DS back to sleep whenever he stirred in the night instead of feeding him straight away like I have been doing, and it worked. He went down at 10 and I actually went with him for the first time ever so got a good 2hrs sleep before he woke for a feed at 12. He then lasted until 5:30, woke up twice in between but I got him back to sleep with Ewan the sheep and rocking his crib. So chuffed that he can actually go that long without a feed, means there's hope for me yet!

Thinking about it I kept the fan on last night for the first time so the white noise from that might've helped too.

Hope you're all having a lovely day in the sunshine!

She fed to sleep during the day!! We have decent naps!!

My head my just explode

You ok polly? What's happening?

I've tried a new approach tonight in light of comments about DS potentially being overtired and instead of starting bedtime at 20.00pm I started it at 18.30pm. I fed him at 19.00pm and he fell asleep on me but obviously woke when I made the transfer and started crying. I have settled him and put him back in his crib but the grizzling is starting again...

You started bedtime at 6:30, but what time did he wake up from his last nap?

It's less to do with the specific time of going down and more to do with how long they've been awake.

For a 4 month old it is usually around 2 hours give or take half an hour. My DS is pretty much bang on 2hrs before he needs a sleep.

He woke up just before 4pm. I was going to leave bedtime until 7pm but come 6pm he looked shattered so thought I'd just bite the bullet.

It hasn't worked anyway as he's still awake and crying unless we are holding him.

If there's literally nothing wrong with him (fed, clean, winded, comfortable) then I'd maybe say just put him down and let him cry for a little bit?

I hope he settles down soon for you,

My little monkey fed to sleep about an hour ago, woke up as soon as my nipple left his mouth and is now looking bright-eyed and, I might add, cute as a button but he hasn't had enough naps today so needs to sleep!

His crying very quickly progresses to screaming - we actually leave him for about 5 minutes before we go to him and even that seems way too long

Writer I feel like I had a nearly perfect day. I didn't start out too great but this afternoon was like someone replaced my baby! She feed to sleep (trying to fit more calories in daytime to prolong night sleep) twice and had 2 decent length naps out of it. She then went down at 7 and though wide awake and a little grizzling after a while, once I calmed her down and left her she self settled within minutes!

Best sleep day ever. So happy right now

Brilliant polly - I hope you get a proper rest tonight!!

Well, after 4 hours of starting the bedtime routine DS appears to have fallen asleep. Unfortunately he fell asleep in my arms so I know that as soon as I attempt the transfer he'll wake up again and we'll be right back at square one

Well Fin is fast asleep, I'm wide awake, too hot, in pain with blocked ducts and so exhausted I cried. Oh is next to me sniffling and snorting and watching tv, I'm actually looking forward to him working tonight so I can get some peace!

Hi puggy, I'm up too. Can you express a little to help your blocked ducts? Massage the area til it's gone, you don't want to develop mastitis.

Just had to feed him to get him back to sleep.

Woke at 2:15 because he'd rolled over to his front and was stuck. I thought I'd resettled him but an hour later he'd done the same thing and cried every time I moved him and seemed pretty wide awake.

I'm not sure what's going on now...he's making little grizzle noises in his sleep.

Puggy - have you taken ibuprofen?im the queen of blocked ducts and sometimes if you can dose yourself up enough to sleep they dissipate overnight by themself.

Hello. I'm awake and have my increadibly cute 4 day old baby feeding. Milk came in yesterday and my boobs are very sore and swollen, any advice? She's currently going about 2 hrs between the finish of one feed and the start of the next, into which we have to fit winding and changing.

I'm recovering from a section too. Knackered isn't the word.

Congratulations Talulah!

My advice would be to feed feed feed. Snuggle up with your baby in bed, feed on demand and get to know each other, nothing else is important now! Is this your first DC/first time breastfeeding? Make sure the latch is good so that you don't get sore. When my milk first came in I had to hand express a little at the start of each feed in so that there was enough nipple for him to latch on to fully i.e. whole nipple area not just tip. Drink LOADS of water and massage any sore spots as you feed. I'm not far ahead of you, yes it's tiring but newborns are the best! ??