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

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An hour has passed and he's still awake...

Sorry writer

We are up again to feed now. Will make DH take both boys when they get up for the day so I can grab my extra hour or so

He finally fell asleep after I bought him into bed with me (naughty DS) and he went just over 3.5 hours.

I woke up to find DS hovering over me with a HUGE grin on his face and my DH standing next to the bed with an omelette for me. Yummy!!

I'm just about to feed DS and then DH is taking him downstairs so I can have a lie in

Standard night for all of us then, I barely slept past 12 as per normal DP took him this morning InThe hope I could get more sleep, DS had other ideas.
Planning to get out today with DP and DS as DP back at work Monday .
What a Tula? I have a sling (moby)

Not a great night for us last night. The 2am waking was so irritating as he'd had a really good day with a fair bit of solid food and plenty of breastfeeds. He's slept through to gone 4 plenty of times on much less food.

We tried to resettle him with a cuddle and some water but he started to really properly kick off and I just wasn't up for the battle so I fed him and he went straight back to sleep.

It seems like he is genuinely hungry - but surely eventually they have to learn to not eat in the night?

And I've just eaten an entire large bar of salted caramel chocolate. Oops.

That sounds very tasty mrsmugoo!!

Hopefully last night was just a one off - I don't think I'll ever get out the habit of feeding back to sleep if he wakes. My general rule is that if he wakes and it's been less than 4 hours since he last fed then I try to rock/sing him back to sleep. If more than 4 hours have passed I will feed him.

Last night was the best night we've had in a while, even though none of his sleeps were 4 hours or longer, but it was a definite improvement. He's done well on his naps today too but that's only because we've been back and forth in the car a lot.

I'm hoping for another good night, even if I could get a few 3 hour blocks of sleep I would be thankful!!

Writer Hope it is better tonight!

I have set up the spare room with a napping chair (for baby) to FX soothe her right down even if it takes an hour of me then hour of DH.
Frustrating - she sleeps flat just fine during the day !!!!!!!!

My DS has been a pickle today, and yesterday very demanding on the feeding. DP has just gone to the pub to watch the football I could tell he was getting annoyed today so thought it best to let him do what he needs to, no point in both of us being aggy. I just had a few little tears, over tired I guess and wish I could just escape, but alas with breast feeding there is no chance of that

Oh Sammy - I'd give you a hug if I could. I went through a horrible phase of feeling really angry towards DH as he always had the option to 'pop out' and live his life as normal whereas I was tied to the baby. I began to really resent DH and it led to many arguments Even though DS is 6 months old I still get frustrated about my DH's freedom but now that DS's feeding is much more regimented and predictable it makes it far, far easier for me to go out for 3-4 hours and just leave DS with DH.

I don't blame you for the tears, I still cry every now and then due to feeling exhausted and feeling like I've got the rough end of the deal and DH has it easy.

Sometimes the mentality of breast feeding and bring tied to the baby is very difficult to cope with and I wish our DH/DP's would understand that better and go more to help share the burden of having a baby.

We're all here to lend you a supportive ear whenever you need to rant. There's a very good chance that whatever your emotion you're feeling we have been there too

Teething starting here he's gumming down hard on everything

He's fed for 7 mins and now refusing so let's see what the evening brings!

Mine won't stop rubbing his gums together and his cheeks are so red. Poor things, he's been really bothered by it today whereas normally he carries on regardless. I've given him some calpol and I'm doing the bedtime feed.

He's had almost 3 hours worth of naps today so hopefully he's more settled in himself in order to have a good night's sleep.

Fingers crossed anyway.

Yeah calpol here and I put him to bed as he would just not feed. But he was screaming so I went in to cuddle him the poor boy he's been asleep nearly 10 mins. Hope he can at least get to midnight.

My DS has fallen asleep on me - I'm also hoping he goes through until midnight. I won't hold my breath though

Yes mine has napped like an absolute champion today! A plane went over and woke him after 40 minutes and I was soooooo annoyed but I left him in the cot and after about half an hour he resettled and then went on to sleep another hour and a half. Then this afternoon did another hour and a quarter. He's also eaten 3 meals today - weetabix and toast for breakfast, pitta bread and a fruit pot for lunch and weetabix and pineapple fingers for dinner. I was going to give him something savoury for dinner but he keeps wasting food because he hates being spoon fed and I don't feel so bad about chucking weetabix in the bin. Plus I know it's filling and nutritious.

He went down about 7:45 and I'm really hoping he sleeps until at least 3am tonight. I woke up with a sore throat and I'm not feeling 100% so I could really do with a decent sleep. Plus my DH left today and isn't back til Thursday for work.

DS only had two short naps today and is now steadfastedly refusing to sleep, grr! He has a bit of a cold so I've dosed him wth Calpol to see if it'll help.

Sammyviv why is your DP getting annoyed? Newborn babies are hard work - he just has to deal with it!

Sammy sorry to hear about the DH situation.
My DH is changing DD. She will settle in basket for 20 minutes, but is quite awake and yells for attention. I think she may have day and night bloody REVERSED!! Is that a thing?

Well DS has been soundly asleep since about 9pm but me? Bloody insomnia has struck again I am knackered and could use the rest as I'm feeling like I might be getting DS's cold but can I sleep? No!

Cariad yes the day night confusion thing is very common. I refer to DS an an owl ?? most of the time.
Thanks for the kind words ladies, DP has been great up till now, maybe today was a blip but we had a mini argument tonight as he came back from the pub 3 hrs later and then I was all ready for bed at 9, DS was sparko on a cushion so is did to DP you stay up with him I'll grab some sleep. I said to DP don't fall asleep as DS on a cushion (it's not really safe we agree we wouldn't sleep if he was on the cushion) and DP said "I can't guarentee not to fall asleep, oh he'll be alright"
Well I'm sorry but I'm not prepared to take that risk with my son. So I got DS send changed him and he's kept me awake EVER since he will only fall asleep on me, screams every time I put him down
I am sooooo exhausted

Squiz sorry it was you that mentioned day and night, see how tired I am.

Did you ladies all recommend the sleepy head? Im tempted to try one

I've just done a feed but I've started to tactically reduce the milk he gets in the night now.

I've started off by restricting to one side but with no time limit. Next week will be 5 minutes max, then 4 etc...

Hopefully I can then cut off night feeds without too much of a shock to his system.

I'm fed up of it now!

A stretch of 6hr40 again so not too bad, he woke after 1am and settled himself too. Just feeding now. I hope the lack of posts means that most of the babies are sleeping well

Sammy read the reviews for the sleepyhead on the John Lewis website! I personally think it worked very well for us and DS was in his cot from day one

I am still up! So pissed off! DS for up for a feed and dropped off immediately after but I still cannot sleep. We have a fan in the bedroom that I have on because the noise helps me sleep but DP managed to damage it during our house move and one of the blades now hits the edge and makes a noise. So I am now annoyed with him as I can't sleep and he is fast asleep in the spare room!

Sorry cariad

Up feeding again

I got DS in bed and managed to few him laying down and fell
Asleep. But it can't of been for long at all. This Is the first tint ive felt this exhausted
He literally has been feeding alllll night