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

Mine is in a long sleeved vest and 1.0 tog sleeping bag.

He was asleep before 7.30pm but outside noise just woke him up. Grr! I'm using the opportunity to try and get some more milk into him as his feeding has dropped off a little throughout the day.

Mine is in a sleepsuit (no vest) and 2.5 tog grobag. He probably could have gone in his 1 tog but I'm sure he'll be ok, it's 22 in the bedroom and will drop later.

Thank you sammy that's a lovely idea... at a recent family gathering they all swapped/shared photos of mil.

DS is currently in his vest and sleep suit - I haven't been upstairs yet but I usually wrap him in one blanket and cover him in another but if the bedroom is warm I may just use a sheet (I wrap one arm in the wrapped blanket and when he's asleep put the other one just inside the tucked one so if he jerk he doesn't hit his hand on the crib... my son has weird preferences and will end up kicking it all off anyway!)

Dd is in a sleep suit and a 2.5 tog sleep suit. It'll get cooler later.

Thank you for all your input
I've gone with the same vest and sleep suit and blanket out bedroom is 20.9 and like you say will drop.
I've just put him down after his last feed, I'm ever hopeful but he's grizzling already
Night ladies may catch some of you on here in the wee hours x

DS awake and grizzling. His crying woke me up and as I was tending to him I thought it was approaching the early hours of the morning so I couldn't believe it when I saw it wasn't even midnight.

His nappy was practically dry for the second time running and yet again he's refusing to feed.

He won't go back to sleep either!!

Still awake and he just won't feed. I'm actually crying I'm that frustrated with it

Hey writer
It must be frustrating, so cry you've had a bit of a week with your pickle. Just remember your not alone in your tears although it probably feels like it right now.
Where's DP/DH can't you wake him?
I'm here feeding DS If you wana chat

Hope he did eventually feed and go back to sleep writer

Well DS up feeding now so the other night was a fluke

Oh no cannot
Last night for me was too good to be true too, although DS a Just gave me 3 hrs, crazy how since I've had a baby that 3 Hours sleep is acceptable , I always needed 8 as a minimum.
Why on earth do we let our DP/DH Get away with the night feeds!

Not much choice when bf Sammy haha! Although I still did all night feeds when DS1 was little as he was mix fed and DH had work and I didn't

It's just started to thunder here and now it's tipping it down with rain. Typical DP still doesn't wake up.
Yeah I don't have work so I feel it's only fair I do the night stuff, I do worry DP (darling partner right as we aren't married yet) would drive tired and that's dangerous.
I really want a cup of tea and haven't quite mastered the art of the one handed tea making

Yes DP is correct! I'm really struggling to keep my eyes open as I type!! Hope DS can go til 6.30-7am now!

Just put him down after a feed - he went 7 hours. Hoping for a decent stretch now because the thunder has kept me awake on and off since I went to bed at 10

Up again feeding! Wtf?

Totally hear you on differing housework standards and DPs/DHs gravitating towards the housework-based tasks! Also, I completely agree that it always seems to be the case that there needs to be a reason for DP to take the baby (other than 'he's yours'!). We have had all this with every baby! The good news is that as your babies become toddlers and then pre-schoolers and schoolers, it becomes harder for DPs to 'hide' and things do get more even (esp of course when you're both working). That said, even with 2 older kids, DH will find ways to sneak off and leave them in in the care of the TV set!

I had a very fractious evening. Writer, I hope things settled back down? DD wouldn't sleep OR feed either. It was driving me up the wall; you can usually always rely on the boob and some peace and quiet at least! She was arching her back and going really red and pulling away and crying. I am guessing wind but who really knows....

This thread is helping me no end. It means such a lot to see that others are going through the same stuff at exactly the same time. We often bemoan the internet and smartphone age but it certainly makes night-feeding a hell of a lot less miserable!

I've fed every hour since 2am and when I put DS down he winges, he's asleep but wingey. Boob is the only thing that works buuuut he will only feed for 10mins
So tired....hoping DP will wake soon and take him off me
Can't keep my eyes open

Please may I join in? Have been referred here by dilys after having had to don a hard hat on my own thread due to a certain poster.

Morning all. I've only just found this thread - may I join? DS is four weeks (he was 2 weeks early). DH does the lAst feed at night (ff) but otherwise he is breastfed. Last night I think I managed sleep between 1030 and 1230 before he needed feeding but he doesn't feed for long and then want to sleep - ON ME. The minute I put him in his Moses basket his eyes open and he starts making all these funny noises. I was up from 1230 until 4am when DH took over because I was getting stressed (DH gets up early enough for work so I was really grateful ) but Ds was up again wanting feeding... Attention.. Cuddles. So all in all I got maybe 3 hours sleep and he is still awake!

Does anyone else's baby make these grunting straining noises ? We call it the death rattle....

Welcome Mitsu and Olivia!

Welcome newbies and yes, my baby still strains and grunts! His breathing also sounded v congested for the first few months, apparently it's quite common.

After being a grumpy non napping nightmare all day yesterday, DS didn't have too bad a night. He fell asleep on DP's shoulder while I was out, went into his cot around 845 and slept til 1. Quick feed and then slept til 645. Another quick feed and he's still asleep.

Re housework and DHs/DPs, I have to admit that DP and I are not the tidiest people around! We do make an equal effort when we have the time though. And he's always shared in the non-feeding aspects of looking after DS. Waking up in the night to hush him, taking him in the morning so I can have a lie in, taking him for walks to give me a break. And when DS was born he did ALL the meconium nappy changes - bonus! He bathes DS every evening so that's their special thing too.

Welcome !!
Hey Olivia sounds like your baby and my baby are in cahoots! My DS IS exactly the same! He's only a week old mind you. But he let me sleep 10:30-1 last night then I had him on the boob every hour as soon as I put him down the same, squeeking and girgling and eye wide open.
Apparently this is alllll normal and we just have to play the patient and long game here.
Anyway welcome

Good morning and welcome to the newbies - sounds like some tough nights. I remember what those early days are like - utterly, utterly gruelling! I say that like it's a bed of roses now haha! At six months he still wakes once or twice for a feed so although I do get a little more sleep now, it's still broken and very, very tiring. No one can explain how tiring having a baby is!!

He did well last night sleeping 7pm-2am then up for a feed. Up again at 5:30 and then up for the day just before 7. Chuffed with that as he went to bed early after a 2 nap day yesterday.

What happened on your own thread Mitsu?

Morning all, and welcome to the newbies!!!

Mitsu - No need to don a hard hat on this thread - we all empathise with each other's strains when it comes to sleep!! I hope you weren't too upset by the other poster on your other thread

Sound like we all had tough nights in one way or another but it's another day now and all we can hope for is a better night tonight. Take things one night at a time

I'm feeling much better this morning - I think I was upset and tearful last night because I was so tired and everything seems worse at 1am in the morning DS still didn't really feed but was back to sleep by 2am and slept until 6.30am when he then had quite a good feed. I kept him in bed with me and he slept until 8.00am. When I changed his nappy this morning it was really, really heavy so I feel more reassured now. He's very reluctant to feed again though in it I'm just going to stay calm and not force the issue.

Why are babies such a nightmare!!!