arrived in March, April, May, June and July......the Due in June ladies babies have finally all arived

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The endless cycle of feeding, winding, pooing and crying has finally arrived......and we all couldnt be happier :) The due in June babies have all been promoted to the post natal thread at last

Misshooha, I don't have much of a sleep solution either. We're taking it day by day, sometimes hour by hour. DS normally gives me one 3-4 hour stretch, then another 2-3 hour stretch, then a couple of 1.5-ish hour stretches in the morning. If we have plans in the morning, I get up and get ready during one of those last stretches, otherwise I stay in bed snuggled up to DS, feeding from the side-lying position and snoozing. It's absolutely lovely, and I get loads of sweet smiles from him at those times. It makes up for the broken sleep!

One improvement is that DS used to do his final feed around midnight, but that has now crept back to 10 pm, so I get to go to bed a bit earlier. That wasn't my doing, though, just the routine DS has settled himself into. He now wakes for a feed around 2-2:30 and again around 5:30. The night before last he skipped the first feed, giving me a 6-hour stretch of sleep for the first time since he was born(!), but it unfortunately seems to have been a one-off, maybe because of the heat.

Try not to worry too much, I think most of us are just figuring this out as we go along!

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Hey Lisascat lovely to see you back here. I think if you pm me your email address/fb details, I can add you as a friend and then invite you to the fb group - or maybe only some people can do the inviting, the security on the group is designed to fox Torchwood!

moomin we don't have a tv, so the DCs watch iplayer and dvds. I am a bit of a meanie who only lets them watch for an hour or so at any point between lunch and tea. I never offer, they have to ask and I would say on average they watch something every other day. They are really good at choosing what they are going to watch and taking turns. I think they are aware that I can remove watching privileges very easily (and I have done in the past). Anyway, it's a long way off. I don't think DD1 watched anything at all until she was 2. As with everything, it's your house and your rules. If you don't like the tv on in the day, it stays off :)

My lovely friends had their baby on Weds night. I saw them this evening - tired but happy. I tried so hard to remember what it was like when we brought home our first child, but I really couldn't. Such precious days. kara I laughed about you sounding mental. I get a bit like that most days. I just love being with my babies so much. We've had such a lovely, lazy week.

Percy is lying across my lap laughing in his sleep - bizarre but very sweet.

sasa I didn't know about hormones making it easier to deal with the broken nights. No wonder DH is exhausted and I am feeling generally ok, even though he only has to listen to DS2 squeak a bit and me shuffle about. I went out to the supermarket this evening with baby in the sling. I got back at 9.30 and everyone was asleep. Not a lot of point me going up until Percy has had his last feed - although he looks pretty zonked now, I may change his nappy, offer him one more feed and retire soon. Then he should go down until about 3 or 4am. After that he feeds about every 90 mins so I feel properly groggy by 7.30am when I have to get in the shower or I don't get dressed all day. This morning I missed my window and had to wait until DS1 went for his nap, which he decided to delay until 1.30pm.

Congrats Lisascat
MOSP yeah - have you read 'three in a bed'? I'm sure it's in there (as well as other places)
Apparently you have fancy hormonal changes that mean that your sleep cycles become in tune with your baby so trhat: you can instantly go back into rem sleep, don't roll onto your baby, and wake if your baby needs you. Because of the cyclical changes, you get more efficient sleep and can deal with it.
I'm never sleep deprived at this stage - it's several months later when the hormones have stopped helping out that I struggle with.
I think that bfing is an important factor in all this tho....

I have now had just over 1.5 glasses of wine and am tipsy. DOWN side of co-sleeping - I now need to wait until totally sober before I can go to bed...

Oh - and I am pleased to announce that Colic has now left the building!!!!! :)

Fantastic news sasa, much improved here too.

Great to hear from you lisascat congratulations on Eleanor

Yay Lisa good to see you back and congrats on Eleanor.

Poor little ginger dude is not very well. He slept through from 10pm to 6am when I had to wake him up. He woofed down 2 boob loads, went very green and threw up everywhere. Then went back to sleep still looking very pale. I'm going to wake him up in about an hour and I certainly wont be letting him sleep through like that again for a while - it might be good for me but hes done this before and I think its just too soon to be going for that long without some boob.

MOSP Will laughs in his sleep just as he's dropping off, a real belly chuckle and it has us in fits every time. Yesterday I blew a raspberry at him and he did it for the first time when hes been awake. I hope it carries on as it brightens any day up.

Sasa great news shhhhh, dont tell it..it might not know its gone...

I was given the most BEAUTIFUL smile at 3.50 this morning :). It sure makes the night feeds easier! Oddly my first smile from DS was at 4am as well. I guess my kids know how to butter me up

No laughing here, but DD often grins in her sleep, or while she is on the boob!

Lisascat - congratulations on the safe arrival of Eleanor!

Jasmine - oh no poor W, hopefully it is just a 24 hour thing and he will be over it soon.

Sasa - yey for no colic!!

Belated congrats Lisa

Great news Sasa

Well complete rollercoaster of a week here - dd has been unwell although we're not sure what with but seems to be picking up now, ds' 3rd birthday party today and we were visited by a rather large black snake in our garden earlier in the week

OMG at merlion's snake.

So the colic def appears to have gone - it lasted a few weeks and has now just disappeared. Really hope it stays away

We're getting sleep smiles too, but also awake ones obv - and she seems to be massive now altho haven't had her weighed in a couple of weeks.

Ugh. We appear to have hit our first big growth spurt. Awake 4 times during the night and asleep all day (apart from more feeds of course!). I did get the first laugh today though, so that kind of makes up for the bad night sleep (me not her).

MASSIVE shudder at your snake Merlion.

Yay for colic ending Sasa!

I am praying for the summer holidays to end now...

Morning ladies, hope you all had a good weekend. DD went to her first wedding and today she is exhausted......she was so good was passed around, cuddled by complete strangers, spent hours in her car seat as we got stuck in traffic. Last night we bathed her at 6.30. bed at 7, woke her at 12 for a feed, slept til 7, back to sleep until 11 and shes asleep again now...........Me thinks we may have a broken night as she will be wide awake. Will try to keep her awake after her next feed for a little while :)

merlion still concerned about that snake - ugh!

sasa what's up with your summer - too many kids??

moomin loving the sound of those sleeping times, we are still trying to find patterns and establish routines but getting better (fingers crossed, pretty please) :)

Supersunnyday - DD is also a greedy guzzler, she would prefer it if I had 4 breasts

Moomin - hope you had a lovely day at the wedding!

Melion at the snake! Do you know what kind it was, hope it wasn't venemous!

Sassa - sympathies, and the weather doesn't help, had 10yo DS up last week and some days hard to find something to do that was free and he didn't turn his nose up at. Still had complaints about how bored he was. Don't mind admitting that with DH working 3 of the days last week it was hard.

Hey guys, can I join? Didn't join MN until after LO was born! I do however have no idea what to do...... x

Welcome boobarella!
If you scroll to the bottom of this thread you'll see our stats and that there are other first time mums, and those who have had 2nd (like me!) 3rd and 4th babies
Feel free to ask questions and join in with the chat or just lurk! What did you have?

Had a little girl on 26th June- Alexa Holly. Will check out the stats when I'm not on my dodgy iPhone app, thanks!

welcome boobarella and congratulations on your little one!

Hi everyone,

Hows it going with everyones LO's? Hope non of you are being affected by the riots. My DD is 6 weeks and has decided that everything is far more exciting than sleep . She's fine at night but getting her to nap during the day takes forever, i try not to let her go over 2/ 2.5 hours without a snooze but she'd stay awake all day if i let her. How often do your LO's nap in the day?

Hi Pearl- my DD is also 6 weeks and sounds like yours- is not a fan of napping in the day so by evening is really cranky, yet sleeps fine at night. However- she's still really variable, some days she will sleep ALL day, others she will point blank refuse and barely sleep at all. She was like that in the womb though- days with barely any movement and then days where I felt like I was giving birth to Michael Flately Junior. Does your DD sleep in something different in the day than she does at night?