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

Oh dear

Thankfully DH is off work that week so come 6am I will hand DS over to him

DH had the boys and I had a sleep til nearly 10

DH off to a football match now and boys are both fighting naps and generally being whingy

DS is currently on a roughly 9-9 routine. I know I'll have to start altering it a couple of months before I go back to work but he will be over a year by then and I've heard that toddlers tend to be early wakers.

Your lie-in sounds lovely Cannot

I've had a baby free morning (well 3 hours) as I left him with DH whilst I went to get some beauty treatments

Napping has been pretty poor, only two 30 minute naps since he woke up 6 hours ago

I really wish I could find a way to get DS to nap in his cot, life would be so much easier!!

Is he self settling at night now Writer?

I just tackled day and night sleeps all at once and we did cc. I just put him in the cot and walk away now.

Sometimes he feeds to sleep but other times I put him in the cot when he's awake and he will settle off. His daytime naps have ALWAYS been a result of being fed to sleep, being in the car or taking him for a walk. I'd love to just be able to put him in his cot in the middle of the day and for him to go to sleep

God me too. My nieces both took to sleep training like a duck to water and all you'd have to do was put them in the cot with their comforter and off they drifted. Once my mum was babysitting my older niece and put her in the cot just so she could use the loo and when she came back my niece was lying down with her comforter as she thought it was bedtime!

That's so sweet!!!!!

I have just fed DS in the bedroom and took him off when he was comfort sucking as opposed to eating sucking and although he protested and grizzled he calmed down again when I popped him over my shoulder. I swayed him a little and rubbed his back for a few minutes and then popped him into his cot whilst he was on the verge of falling asleep. He stirred when I put him down and had a little reshuffle of his position but he very quickly dropped off to sleep. He's been in his cot for 20 minutes now and no movements as yet but we shall see....

My DS has been asleep since 1:30!!! Why doesn't he do this at night lol
Had someone take some baby photos today I think it knackered him out.
DP Is annoying me, talking about money and just claiming the child tax benefit and it's a silly annoyance over what bank account to put It in. Just because he's good with money and I'm not. Grrrrrrrrrr I think I'm tired!!!!!

My DS is still asleep too - I'm trying to decide when to wake him,

Me and DH didn't even know we could claim child benefit until DS was 17 weeks old We filled out the application forms once we realised and got a bulk back dated payment

Last feed and hoping he will be in bed soon! x

Mine is refusing in to feed again - it's driving me mad.

As a result I decided to just put him in his cot and he is moaning and grizzling away. He isn't crying though so I will just leave him there for now.

DS was just nodding off when DD (who has a 7pm bedtime) woke up screaming (she really suffers with nightmares). Sitting with her until she nods back off and can here him gurgling in his cot... He's now wide awake and raring to play!

DS had his first solid food today and I've been feeling really emotional about it. My teeny baby is growing up!

I'm giving DS his first taste of solid food tomorrow and I have a feeling it will upset me too

Woke DS in the end as started to get worried but typical he hasn't stopped squeeking and crying since lol should of left him asleep
Have a feeling I'm Gona have a difficult night

I'm having a shit night too. I've been trying to get DS to go to sleep for almost an hour now. He just won't stop grizzling. Every attempt to put him in his cot has failed and it just leads to him crying.

I've swapped with DH now because I need a break.

He's been so, so good for the last week and now we are back to it bring hellish.

I think there is a common theme emerging: he was a nightmare at bedtimes and naps during the 6 weeks of Summer and he is also a nightmare most weekends for napping and bedtime. It can't be a coincidence that it's whenever my DH is home all day. Can it??

We've had a great day... I had a trip to sainsburies boots and mothercare this morning while DH looked after ds. This afternoon we had lunch with friends and ds slept the whole time. He is now asleep again and has been for a few hours ..... So guess he will be awake all night!!!

Good news is I am picking up the sleepy head tomorrow from john lewis so I am hoping our nights might improve but I shouldn't forget ds is only 5 weeks tomorrow

Good luck everyone.

Writer - weirdly, I think mine are sometimes harder work on the weekends when DH is around, it's not his fault, bless him - he's genuinely brilliant with them both. I think it's just the change from routine/ different levels of stimulation etc. Hope he settles for you soon.

My two are finally both asleep. DH is out for the evening so am going to catch up with the Corrie omnibus before bed. Good luck for the night everyone!

Ds has had lots of cuddles todays (grandparents met him for the first time) so I imagine he'll be unsettled for the night as his feeds were staggered to.

Ho hum. Dh has him now while I catch up on some sleep. See you later ladies :)

Well after two hours of crying and grizzling (and a recent dose of Nurofen) he had finally given in and gone to sleep. I doubt it will last long.

I think it's his silent reflux playing up again as he had to go 4 days without his medication due to prescription problems Thankfully we were able to restart it on Thursday afternoon but it can take a week to build back up in the system and start to have any noticeable effect. Poor DS

My nephew used to settle himself from a really young age - you could swaddle him and put him in his cot and he'd close his eyes and go to sleep. Even when he was 3/4 years old he would do that and if you told him to go to sleep (I did playfully on one occasion in the car) he would squeeze his eyes shut and go to sleep and is the only child I know even now at 9 that asks to go to bed! Thinking about it now its surprising as he had severe reflux so really should have suffered at night but he didn’t. I naively thought I could replicate this with ds... Though I just remembered that he would settle better when in the hospital if dp swaddled him and put him down - maybe if he'd been around more in the first couple of weeks after we got home we could've continued doing that and he would settle better now...

ds finally pooed today after a couple of days without - I expected some disruption to his routine when trying formula but not for a week!

Just feeding ds now as we had a nap earlier which was supposed to only be half hour but was 2 and a half. I needed it though as I feel really off today - not sure what it is but expect it's my medication.

Awww writer hope you get some sleep. I think your right about DH being home all day it probably does upset thier routine. I have this to look forward to.
Well DS is in his Moses basket but the squeeks are starting already!

I love being able to come on here and read all of your posts ladies it really really helps deal with motherhood. I'm glad I found you all.

It's a good support isn't it Sammy?!

DS woke at 9.30 and cried for 5 mins and for some reason I decided not to go in, he went back to sleep! I would have gone in and fed him aswell!

First feed of the night

Me too Cannonbelieveit.....

However he has come off after five mins and seems to be settling back again......