Night Feeders Part 5. Calling all women who find themselves feeding when they'd rather be sleeping!!

[Writerwannabe83]

This is a thread for anyone who wants support when things seem tough - especially for the women whose babies don't like sleep!!

We'll do the usual introductions:

I'm a first time mom to my 6 month old, EBF son. It's been a rocky few months, lots of ups and downs but we've finally reached a point where he's asleep by 7.30pm and only waking once during the night.

He very rarely naps in the day - and when he does it's only when he's in the car or his pushchair. It's very frustrating!!

And the last little thing about us is that we have just started the weaning journey - it's fun but messy!!

Actually now that I think about it it wasn't at six week, probably more like 8 weeks.

Thanks.
DH is both super hands on and very pro BFIng so expressing would make both our days! Me so I can have my nails done, him for daddy time! Will try in a few weeks.
Poor fella just gets the literally sh*tty jobs at the moment! Like today she did a huge poo all over her baby grow and the car seat on the way back from NCT new baby club mm mm nice! I wiped her bum he cleaned seat and did emergency laundry!

Just having his bedtime feed. Ok naps today totalling just over 2 hours. Every night I'm hopeful this will be the night!

Just having bedtime feed here too. We are staying at my mom's house tonight so I'm hoping the different environment doesn't unsettle him. Mind you, his sleep is so crap at the moment that I don't think it could be any worse.

He's only had 1 nap today which lasted 1hr 15 minutes. Hardly anything really.

Good luck for tonight everyone

Just finished a feed.
DD has had a two-poonami day. Stinky! Almost took out her car seat (may still need a dose of febreze).
Experimenting with sleepy head ON BED as a bridge from sleeping next to me. We will see ...
Right now she's being cross as DH. Bet she's hungry.

My DS pooped today for the first time since Saturday morning and was crying from the pain again as it was quite sizeable and hard, poor thing. No,blood though, which is good. He's had prunes, lentils and lots of water today so hope he gets a bit more regular. Not sure what else I can give him tbh, he isn't keen on prunes and I really have to shovel them in his mouth sometimes.

He had a long nap from 2-5pm and is grouchy again now so hopefully he won't be up late like he was last night.

Cariad - dried apricot soaked in fruit juice can have a similar effect and tastes sweeter (she says from her own knowledge during pregnancy). Maybe he would like that?

Phase 1 of "the sleepy head is nice" about to start. Got her nap grade sleeping in it as per. Is now on bed where she usually Co sleeps and can see me. FX she finds it easy to feed and change abd accept the bed after...

Apparently there is something in dried apricots that babies shouldn't have, sulphuric something?

Btw squizita, you were asking about a sling earlier? There are a few along libraries in London that let you borrow different ones for about a fiver for two weeks. I've used the North London one and I'd been really good, I think there is a south London one too. But DS is a monkey and never got on with slings so good job I borrowed rather than bought one!

Along libraries, SLING libraries ffs. I swear autocorrect has got worse with iOS 8!

Ooh thanks. Yeah I'd be north London too.

Too bad about apricots. Blimey the stuff they add even to "whole foods"!

DD is in the basket and has slept for 1 hr. Had a snack boob at 8 ish so 10-11 I'd expect her to feed. Gonna try to feed her sleepy.

Squizita I've already given DS expressed bottles, only the odd one but he's getting used to them. I can't get more than 1 oz out at a time though! Super frustrating! Threw my breast pump across the table tonight.
I've decided to try a dummy again...does anyone else use one? He can't hold it in yet, so I assist but it does mean he's not comforting on the boob. I'm just unsure when to give him a dummy exactly....
He's just fallen asleep so attempting transition to Moses basket

She was fine till 10.45. Did a poo and when I changed her did another between nappies. Soaked herself and shocked herself wide awake. Now still wide awake in spite of feeds: neither Co sleeping nor sleepy head working at all. Just wide awake and will cry without attention.

Oh Squizita that's the worst I hope she gets off soon
DS woke wriggling around and then came a couple of loud pop tarts bless him think he woke himself too. Change fed and asleep on my chest, awaiting the deep sleep mode before I move him back to the Moses basket

Oh no ths night is still so young and yet our babies are already causing us a worry!

Dh has ds in the evening so I can have a nap before the long slog that is night feeds, ds was fed around 7 and then I assume 10 or 11 not sure what time ds was brought into me but he didn't stir till 1.20 am and is now having a bottle. I am not sure if he got his 10 bottle and really want to ask dh who is sparko next door. If he didn't have it, it means he's done 5+hrs!

Just thought I'd say hello
Baby is a week old here and feeding going fine- am still on a bit of an oxytocin high after birth and so delighted not to be sodding pregnant that I'm not minding the night feeding at all- this may change!

Would be nice to have some company at 3 am though :) DP is brilliant and insisting on doing all nappies etc and any night time toddler duties but he is like a big sleepy bear- not exactly chatty :)

Hi!

Hello wee - and many congratulations on your new baby!!! How old is your toddler and what is his/her reaction to the baby??

DS's first block of sleep was 6 hours so a huge improvement on the last few nights. I fed him and he was so sleepy but then I had to change his nappy and he sprang back into life. I'm trying desperately to feed him back to sleep. We are staying at my mom's house tonight and I'm so paranoid about DS waking her if he starts crying.

(6 month old son, first baby)

Welcome wee.

cariad is he old enough for prune juice?

DS slept for over 6 hours :) he is now on the second boob so I think he's really hungry! Here's hoping he goes back to sleep for a couple of hours!

Hi wee
I have a 4 week old DS and found this thread a god send. You are probably a bit more confident with it being your second child.
My DS is asleep on my chest at the mo, he tends to get a bit of wind in the night so sometimes I pick him up burp him and then he's sparko again! But I kinda like him snuggling on my chest if I'm honest.

Hey ladies the problem I sometimes find is DS doesn't feed much in the night and he falls asleep feeding this is why he probably wakes every hour sometimes? I've tried stroking is cheek to keep him awake but it doesn't always work...any theories on this? I was planning to introduce a bottle of formula for night feeds at around 6 weeks, hoping to get longer at night.

Thanks I am over the moon!!

DD2 is a pretty easy baby so far- she feeds a lot, but painlessly and easily- and settles easily too. I swear I didn't put her sister down once till she was. 6 weeks old! We are doing a combo of co sleeping and Moses basket. She has been all newborn - snuffly all night though... Not crying but has kind of kept me semi awake and given me weird dreams....

DD1 turned 2 the day she was born :) and has been frankly awesome, all she wants to do is cuddle 'her' baby and help me change nappies... She has also slept through all week thank god after a pretty shit summer sleep-wise...

Writer- god it's really hard in other peoples houses isn't it?!? I promise you they notice crying far far less than you do and I don't think most people notice it at all unless a baby is crying for a long time without being comforted.

Thanks for the welcome sammy and maggie. I bf DD1 till 20 months so it is kinda like settling back into a familiar milky groove... I am lucky in that both my girls are greedy for milk and feed pretty easily. This will probably be my last baby?? So trying to enjoy it as well rather than whinge endlessly

I did whinge through the entire pregnancy though, god I fucking hate being pregnant!

Hope everyone gets an hour or two more sleep! DD2 has just passed out on me like a tiny drunken tramp. Zzzz

Sammy a couple if things I've tried are

Tickling feet
Changing nappy then feeding on the other side
Squeezing boob as you feed(I think this is called breast compressions, gives them an easy mouthful of milk and sometimes wakes them up again!)

I found stroking their head/cheek tended to send them off to sleep actually!

Sometimes I think they do just go through frequent waking and feeding though whatever you do...

(6 weeks was when DD1 started sleeping really long stretches (8 hours or so) without me changing anything- for what it's worth! I belong to the lazy school of parenting, i just believe babies go through phases and I just go with them- good and bad...)

Gosh, lucky you weebairn, my DS was up like clockwork every two hours til he was 6 months! Then he went through two blissful weeks of sleeping through but the last two weeks he's been up once or twice in the night again, sigh. Think it's a growth spurt.