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

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mrsmugoo · 08/07/2014 20:45

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!

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Cariad007 · 09/07/2014 08:00

DS woke up for feeding THREE times between 1.39 and 5.45. FML, I am beyond shattered. Might take him to the vh today as this can't be normal surely??

midnight1983 · 09/07/2014 08:04

Cariad, our babies are same age and my one does still have nights like this sometimes. Maybe he's teething? Or too hot? No harm going to hv if you feel it's out of character.

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mrsmugoo · 09/07/2014 08:35

He woke again at 6, I fed him and brought him in with me and we both slept until 8am yay!

If every night was like last night it would be great!

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redcaryellowcar · 09/07/2014 08:38

Please May i join you ? Ds2 is 19 weeks old and was sleeping better but i think we hit the four month sleep regression at 3 1/2 months and are still in it! Just to make those of you with a baby who wakes twice a night feel better, he is currently going off to sleep ok then having a reasonable first stint from 7 ish to maybe 11,.then perhaps another and then he is awake on and off until i get up with ds1 at 6.30, i am struggling a bit!

KateTheShrew · 09/07/2014 08:53

Morning all!

My recap: DS will be 6 months next week and is bf (we've just embarked on BLW too). He likes to keep us on our toes sleep-wise. Sometimes he will do a nice 5 hour stretch... Last night, however, he was up at 11, 2.15, and 4. He is a terrible napper.

My insomnia reached new levels last night: couldn't get back to sleep after the 2am feed until 6am. WTF!!??! Then DS wanted to get up at 7. DH took him for an hour and had just brought me a cup of tea. Here's hoping it will make me feel a bit more human...

Writerwannabe83 · 09/07/2014 09:38

frank - brilliant news about your husband!!

A big welcome to all the new joiners!!

I'm feeling pretty tired. After waking at 4am DS then didn't go back to sleep until 6am! He was having major issues with wind! I had to feed him again at 05.30am to calm him down and I think that's what eventually caused him to go back to sleep.

I managed to fall asleep myself pretty instantly and DS has only just woke up so at least I got another 3.5 hours.

I'm feeding DS now and he still seems really tired so I'm hoping he will go back to sleep again when he's finished.

TwentiethCenturyGirl · 09/07/2014 10:06

Urgh, that's grim Kate - insomnia is worse than being up with a non sleeping baby in my opinion :(

We had a bad night by our standards. It sounds like Frank's in that DD was just really restless; tossing, turning and grunting and constantly waking me up without actually waking up herself. Quite odd really. Things weren't helped by the fact that DD1 was up and shouting for 45 minutes on the middle of the night about god knows what...

Anyway, the baby is currently having her second micro-nap of the morning, so I'm going to investigate the poor nappers thread. See you there MrsM!

Cariad007 · 09/07/2014 10:14

Once again, hats off to those of you with more than one DC. I don't know how you do it!

DS managed a couple of hours sleep and just woke up. I dozed alongside him but every time I felt like I was properly falling asleep he would stir and want to suckle. Still, it feel better than I did at 7 this morning.

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mrsmugoo · 09/07/2014 10:19

Oh Kate - that was me yesterday! Awake from 2-6 it's the most hideous thing. Last night I had camomile tea and a banana at the 1am feed and turned dibs the brightness on my phone and thankfully slept a bit better.

Oh, also I have lavender oil on my hot stone for relaxation. I used it a lot in pregnancy (he was breech so I spent 3 months in agony with rib pain)

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Schmoop · 09/07/2014 10:25

Hello everybody
DS is 17 weeks (4 month exactly today) Night time sleep has improved this last week and he's going to sleep between 8.30-9pm and generally waking for first feed between 4-5am. The last few weeks he had been waking a few times in this stretch, I thought it was the heat but as its still warm maybe it was the 4 month sleep regression early?
Totally crap napper so I might have to look at that thread too! He will NOT nap for more than 30-40 mins regardless of where he is!
Anywho now I'm registered I can get on here on my phone for those pesky night feeds!

redcaryellowcar · 09/07/2014 14:37

Just thinking about this 4 month sleep regression, and whilst its nice to give our exhaustion an excuse, but does anyone know how long it will last and if there is a cure for it, i'm tempted to try calpol, but only because its my first 'go to' for most things? Ds did roll for first time repeatedly on Monday so i was thinking maybe his restlessness is due to a developmental leap? (once again hoping!!)

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mrsmugoo · 09/07/2014 14:47

Calpol is only infant paracetamol - it's not a magical baby tranquilliser!

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Writerwannabe83 · 09/07/2014 15:12

And the dose we can give is so small that it's practically pointless. I have given DS Calpol three times and it makes him so, so irritable!! It's certainly not a big enough dose to help him settle/sleep and so instead it makes him ridiculously cranky pissed off . I avoid giving it now.

missbluebird · 09/07/2014 15:27

It's probably all the E numbers in the calpol making him irritable Wink

My DS is 17 weeks and usually does 3 to 4 hours through the night but last night we were back to 2 hourly.

He also only naps during the day if he is walked or asleep on me. He is currently asleep on me as don't have the energy to walk him!

He had his first swim today and I was assured / promised he would sleep for ages after (someone even mooted the 2 hour mark..) not my DS...he did ten minutes!

FrankelandFilly · 09/07/2014 16:06

redcar there is no "cure" for sleep regressions, you just have to ride them out I'm afraid! They happen to coincide with developments in your babies mental and physical abilities,so in that respect they are a good thing. They last anything from a few days to a couple of weeks.

This is a good explanation of them, yes there are several I'm afraid but you won't suffer every one - my friend's little boy has just had his first one at 18 months!

Cariad007 · 09/07/2014 16:48

The little ratbagDS has only had 2 half hour naps today and reduced me to tears twice. I took him to see the HV earlier and he's still growing healthily - nearly 8.5kg now, oof! He's now asleep on my lap and I'm going to just leave him as is. Have to leave for another flat viewing at 530 so hopefully he'll last til then.

Cariad007 · 09/07/2014 17:04

Spoke too soon. He's up. AGAIN.

johull · 09/07/2014 17:57

Hello all- I had a good night last night DD woke at 3am & 6.30am from going to bed at 10:45pm. Fortunately not the normal 1-4and 6. I think it has something to do with the way I fed her. I have her 90ml at 8 and then her normal 130ml at 10, I really didn't think she would take it but she did and slept for longer. Has anyone else who bottle feeds EBM done this? She also has terrible wind so I gave her gripe water to help settle and that seems to have worked too- no noisy baby last night. Grin

puggywug81 · 09/07/2014 19:40

Thanks mrsmugoo.

Place marking! Fin is ebf, 14 weeks old and a slobbery teething mess at the moment bless him!

Schmoop · 09/07/2014 21:02

Sitting on the floor next to the Moses basket hoping ds is going to get himself to sleep.
He's started a new habit of humming very loudly whilst feeding. Gone are the days of discreet breastfeeding! and he's now humming whilst sucking his thumb. Hoping he doesn't start doing this in the night, its so loud!

Writerwannabe83 · 09/07/2014 21:15

DS hasn't really had any decent sleep during the day - a few 30 minute naps but nothing substantial and as a result he's been in a bad mood all day.

He randomly fell asleep at 8pm just as me and DH were preparing for bath time so we'd left him to it. He woke up screaming at 9pm so I've now got him in his pyjamas and doing a bedtime feed.

I have no idea how tonight is going to go...

Cariad007 · 09/07/2014 22:03

And still DS won't sleep! He managed another half hour nap at around 6.30pm but since then nothing. DP is trying to get him to sleep now but every time he drops off he wakes himself up and starts screaming. I don't know what's wrong with him, I'm at my wits end and wish I could just sleep and not wake up.

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mrsmugoo · 09/07/2014 22:12

I've had a different kind of night to usual.

DS went down at 7:30 and I followed at 8:30 but could. not. sleep!

Went and had a camomile tea and a natter in the living room with DS and watched DS wriggle about and stir a bit in his sleep on the monitor so decided I might as well lift him out, attempt a dreamfeed and put him down again so we both start our sleeps together.

Dreamfeed was a success. Lifted him out, replaced his fingers with my nipple and he latched on a took a decent feed. I've just popped him back in, he had a little wriggle and now he's flat out again.

Here's hoping for a decent stretch of sleep!

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TwentiethCenturyGirl · 09/07/2014 23:03

Hope it works for you mrsm - I'm a fully paid up member of the dream feed fan club!

Operation dream feed is actually underway here at the moment before I turn in for the night.

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mrsmugoo · 09/07/2014 23:17

Awake after an HOUR Confused

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