Night Feeders Part 4 Up All Night Feeding, newborns, sleep regressions, toddlers, every knackered Mummy welcome!

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Here's a fresh thread!

Let's start by introducing us/babies again

Eww, don't mention the c word!

I hate the term too - I don't even understand how it relates to having a younger male partner. I might google it

I'm feeding him already, waaaah

Evening everyone I tend to fall asleep writing to you all on here
Right I neeeeed siggestions, I put baby down in his Moses basket and 20 mins later he's awake
Tonight I've tried a muslin with my scent on, hot water bottle in Moses basket and swaddling. He wakes and gurgles is put my hand on his chest to reassure him and still he wakes looking for boob! I put him back on an he's asleep in seconds
Help!!!!!!

Following on from earlier today
Cariad - I'm 39 and DP is 27! I think I beat you all hands down !!
What does dp stand for and what's babies DS I'm very confused I'm always so tired when I come to talk to you guys

DP Dear/darling partner
DS dear/darling son
DD dear/darling daughter

I've got no other suggestions as to how to get him to stay in the moses. Is co sleeping an option for you?

3 hours almost to the minute til the first feed tonight. I need to remember to wee before feeding him!

Got it ok so I have a DP AND DS. Thank you all the advise I'm a bit slow in catching up.
Well DS just gave me a hour and halves sleep I'm so grateful!
How's everyone else tonight?

Auntmaggie how olds your DD/DS? To be sleeping 3 hours?
Cannot believe it - thank you for the abbreviations.

Cannot believe it
Co sleeping- do you mean in bed with me or on my chest? I'm obviously new to all this and hear it's a massive no no, although DS falls asleep on me all the time during the day

Ugh he's awake. Too early!!!

Sammy - my ds is 11 weeks old. and he's now awake for his second feed.

Auntmaggie I've hardly slept soon as I put DS down with 15 mins he's squeeking to be fair he doesn't cry just makes noises and I peer in and he's wide awake. I've got my hand on him in the Moses basket but alas I'm failing think I'm Gona have to pick him up. He only feeds for 10 mins then falls asleep was your little one like this in the early stages

Hi Sammy - the first few weeks/month are so difficult aren't they? It felt like all I did was feed DS and it was physically and emotionally draining. I was recommended to google "the fourth trimester" and some of it was discussing the baby's need to be near it's mother and it helped me find things more bearable. Co-sleeping does mean to share the bed with your baby and if you look at reputable websites there are ways to do it safely. I know missmugoo co-slept when her DS was young so maybe she could offer you some advice.

Auntmaggie - I completely understand about the going for a wee before feeding!! I'm feeding DS now and I'm absolutely busting!!!

Missmugoo - I hope he settled down quickly for you!!

Cannot - how did your night work out?

DS slept until 05.15am so another really good night. He's wide awake now though

Co sleeping can be done safely, have a look online, it will mean you can get more sleep too.

Writer although he fed again before midnight he's only just up now for a feed so actually an ok night?!

Though DS1 was up from 11.30-1.20 with teething pain but DH sorted him

I still cosleep with DS. I had no intention of doing so but he just would not go in his crib and it was the only way I could get any sleep. He starts the night in his cot now but winds up in bed with me eventually! He slept 1030-530 again last night which is good. But if he's cutting down on his feeds now then I'd better cut down on my cake consumption otherwise I'll pile back on all the weight I've lost!

DS didn't go back to sleep until 06.10am when again I bought him in bed with me to try and calm him down.

However he woke up at 7am due to a huge projectile vomit, I have never seen anything like it. He was on his back and a huge wave just shot out his mouth and then it happened again. My entire side of the bed was covered, the sheet was they drenched it has all soaked through to the mattress and his sleeping bag and baby-gro were drenched too. It really freaked me out and I had to shout for DH who was downstairs in the spare room. He couldn't believe it when he saw the state of the bed.

I knew something was wrong with him, he wasn't himself at all yesterday, wasn't really feeding and even his bedtime feed was really poor. When he woke up at 5am this morning I expected him to be ravenous but again he just wasn't interested

I think I may have a poorly baby

Oh no, poor him. My DS spits up his milk occasionally but has never actually vomited. Are you going to take him to the doc Writer? Have you started him in solids yet? If so, maybe something didn't agree with him?

Oh no writer :(

sammy yes my ds was like that but don't pick him up if he's not crying and he might go to sleep.

ds was up frequently again in the night and has just gone to sleep after being awake since 5:45

Poor baby writer. It always scared me when DS1 did it. One night he did it in his cot, it woke him and he screamed and because he was lying on his back it shot up and back down again. It was all over him and his cot and even in his eyes.

Just keep him close today and if you have some old sheets then lay them down where you sit with him or cover his bouncy chair etc.

Hope he's better soon

Weirdly DS has been asleep since 6.15! Is it a nap or an extension of night time sleep? I never know how to class it!

This one was up at 1:45am which was less than 6 hours asleep - i know he can do longer than this! I left him to see if he'd go back to sleep but he started crying quite hard so I fed him and he went straight back down to sleep. He was up 3 hours later at 5:30, again doing a hungry grizzle so I fed him and put him back down.
I heard movement at 6:30 and I'm sure he was awake but ignored him until 7am and had half an hour more dozing before he started to get really grumpy and I got him up for the day.

I'm disappointed that he needed two night feeds but I'm confident he was hungry both times, not just feeling for comfort or feeding to get back to sleep.

I'm having real trouble with getting solid food into him - he started really well but it's just petered out now. He point blank refuses to be spoon fed and finger foods just get squidged around and thrown on the floor. His weight is plateuing, he won't take a bottle, I can't BF him anymore than I do already (every 1-2 hours!!) and he's nowhere near sleeping through the night. When does it get easier??

Hi ladies, I've been lurking on this thread for some time, but feel I need to join in to share my sleeping woes and see if we can offer eachother some moral support...

My DD2 is 5mo this week and for the last week she has been night-waking like a newborn again (every 1.5-2 hrs with the odd 3hr stretch) and I am really struggling. She was quite good as a baby and at times around 12w had been going for 6 hrs, waking up once for a feed then sleeping for another 5hrs! This increased to two feeds at 4m and so I thought it was the dreaded regression and thought that we had come through it relatively unscathed, however just when I thought we should be coming out of the regression, she is doing this She seems to be struggling to stay asleep and then needs boob to help her go back off.

How long did it last for you ladies? I thought things should be improving by 5m???

writer I hope your baby is OK, that sounds awful...

sammy I coslept in the eary days too, but kept persevering with getting her into her basket by trying every few days and also getting her to nap in there. We gradually got her to start the night in there at least and then eventually she was in there for a full night by about 10-11 weeks I think. I pushed my duvet down so it was only on my legs and nowhere near DD, I wore a cardi and used a cellular blanket to keep my top half warm. Oh and DH was packed off to the spare room!

We have just had a 1.5 hour sleep and he seems to have woken up in a better mood and he gave me a big smile. I cautiously fed him before we had our sleep but I only let him feed for a very short while and he kept it down.

Mrsmugoo - hopefully last nights sleep issues were just a one off. Sorry things have slowed down regarding his taking solids. My friend had the same problem during the early weaning stages and she was advised by her HV to give purées that could be mixed with her EBM as a familiar taste would make the baby more likely to and happier to eat it. She gave it a try and she had a good success with it - I don't know whether it's something you could experiment with?

Welcome Curly - you have my total sympathy. My DS is almost 6 months and we have only just come out the 4 month regression. He had been sleeping through from about 10 weeks so when things went haywire it was just a nightmare. He stopped self settling, would cry for hours on end at bedtime and once he did eventually fall asleep he was waking every 2-3 hours without fail. It was exhausting and I nearly cracked up on a few occasions. I even had to start co-sleeping with him to try be get a longer period of sleep and if we ever got 4 hours out if him we were gobsmacked. However, over the last 10 days we seem to have turned a corner and he is asleep by 8.30pm every night and sleeps 8-9 hours, has a feed then sleeps another 2-3 hours. I have absolutely no idea why there has been this sudden turn around and I can only assume we were just in a very long and bad phase that we had to ensure and wait to pass.

I'm iff to change DS's nappy now he I'd awake and I hope it's wet in light if this vomiting as his 5am one was only a little bit damp as opposed to his normal really heavy one.