November 2012 - They WERE sleeping, what happened?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1688444-November-2012-Forget-50-books-in-2013-well-have-50-threads

Still no sleep. LO currently laughing on her playmat as I brought her downstairs in the end. How can she go so long without sleeping?!?

First feed of the night already - I'm starting to lose hope that he will ever sleep longer than 4 hours, I am so so tired. This is his longest stint of the night too, history tells me that I will be lucky to get another 3 hour block tonight.

Really thought he would be better at this by now

Sweetpea same here . He fed at 6.15, then 8.20, finally got him to sleep at 9.30 but he woke at 11.30 screaming blue murder. We were in the middle of doing the bottles so we didn't have one ready. He had to scream for 20 minutes while I got frostbite desperately trying to cool a bottle to fridge temp. It didn't work so now he is fighting with a bottle full of lumps. Ffs.

It all started to go wrong at 12 weeks - pinning my hopes on some kind of growth spurt/wonder weeks style regression.

Back in cot now so off to try and get a bit of sleep. Fingers crossed you get some decent sleep Detective from one Oscar mother to another

Midnight? Unbelievable, he didn't even manage four hours for his longest sleep of the night. Humph I'm too tired for this.

Feeling your pain guys :(

N fell asleep at half ten, which is really good for her, and is awake for her first feed already. I used to moan at the mere four hour stretches - now I dream of them! I'm hoping this is a late 12 week growth spurt.

Hope you're all too busy sleeping to read this :)

Arghhhhhh. I've just syringe fed him with a 1ml syringe, cup fed him, given up on both and now giving him a carton of cow & gate out of desperation. I'll take the vomiting over up all night.

Except he's choking on the fucking milk because the thicker milk needed the size 3 teats but he's screaming at them now hes having the c&g. Size 2 now in steriliser.

Nervous breakdown here.

DP in doghouse for not doing bottles WHEN I FUCKING ASKED .

Twatting men. Twatting milk. Twatting twatty twatter.

Gaaaaah.

Well he took 3 oz of the gloop autocorrect fail changed gloop to floppy!! and 1oz of the carton and he now appears to be asleep after being wide awake 10 mins ago and flashing his most winning smiles at me knows he was pushing his luck!!. Good job I lost the receipt for him!

Exciting news for DS1 in the morning. Got the secondary allocation email just after midnight. He got in our 1st choice school! Yay!

Gah we're up for first feed too after going to sleep at 10. No chance of another 5 hour stretch then.

Detective well done with tt although can't believe they didn't have the courtesy to email you and yay fir school choices.

No bath poo here yet but L is prob storing it up for when i bath her as it is usually dh's job.

Know there was more i wanted to say but brain is fried and stupid phone won't let me look back at what has been said.

Oh well prob see you again in a couple hours :(

Nightmare Detective but yay for school success!

Up for second sodding feed now. 2.5 hours, but been awake at least half an hour listening to him stir.

What is wrong with him? At my wits end now. I would say 'This too shall pass' but I genuinely don't know if it will

Sorry to everybody else having crap nights. Something in the air tonight.

And he's feeding again after another three hours so DM will be on at me to start weaning. He's 15 weeks though, is this an unscheduled growth spurt?

pea I feel your pain, my LO the same, all went pearshaped at 11 weeks, down to two hour wakings from doing nearly all night stretches can't bear to think about it, she has gradually crept back up to fairly consistent four hour stretches, but now 17 weeks so not much to shout about, she is four months tomorrow so am shitting myself for this famous regression and worry her sleep will be crap forever

oh wait Detective fab news on the school! yay for happy morning with DS1! hope you get to enjoy his excitement. and there would be lots of in my house over bottle fuckwittery too, wonder wtf is wrong with blokes quite a lot of the time, why can't they just bloody do what they're told

Nearly 15 weeks here as well stunt We appear to have gone back to waking up whenever she's put in the cot as well. I'm just about to try for the third time. Only a bottle fixes this but I just cant express enough to give a bottle every night.

Yay for school decision detective :)

Here we are again 2.5 hours later. On the up side she has been in her cot rather than sleeping on me, onthe downside she seems to sleep better on me.

I share your pain rooty, stunt and sweet. She slept better than this at 5 weeks :( at 8 weeks she started waking all the time; too long now to blame a growth spurt and no sign of much improvement.

Being positive it gives me time to catch up with mn

I'm awake, LO isn't. Wonder when he'll put in an appearance! Sorry to those who have had crap nights :(

Can't believe it's march already, madness!

Howcome you had to do syringe feeding etc detective? Was o being difficult?

Finally got her to sleep at a quarter to 1! 15 weeks here too so maybe it's their age?! Hoping she'll go back to sleep.

Hoping the rest of you get some more sleep too

First half decent sleep for a week - definitely having a 15 week growth spurt/wonder week fussiness going on here the past wee while!

What an awful night . And DP has now told me that I can't look after him when I'm tired so he has to look after him at night's now

Well today is a new day, let's hope it is a good one for all

Had a whinge to DH at about 4.30 this morning because 'DS is wanting feeding every 3hrs' & he kept spitting his dummy out etc etc However, the first feed was 4.5hrs & this feed is 5.5hrs ish Even more given some of your nights... I'm so tired though. I fell asleep feeding A & woke up over 2hrs after I started to feed him having forgotten he was there. It could have been disastrous :(

Hope those that had bad nights have better days today...

I must say I'm relieved that the 15-week madness isn't just us. I don't think the wonder weeks have applied here, J's periods of fussiness and wakefulness have been completely different. J is messing about in the boob: sticking his thumb in his mouth, popping off and talking to me; staring in fascination at the pattern on my dressing gown. Now my dressing gown's pretty awesome but surely not that worthy of detailed examination? These are not the actions of a starving child. So why such frequent night feeds?

The HV is coming today so I'll be able to get the wee tub of lard baby weighed. I need to ask her about the problem they found with my blood after J's birth which will no doubt confuse her. But the hospital were supposed to send me a card to carry in case I ever need a blood transfusion so it sounds quite important.

Right must go change his bum again. He had five dirty nappies by 11 o'clock yesterday! I don't know how he does it.

Yay for mini detective and school!

LO has been up, had breakfast and is now back asleep in bed. I too am off back to bed as he fed at 4 and then wanted to get up at 6!

Stunt we have had 12,13 and going into 14 week madness. Feels likes growth spurt each week for like 2 days.

Morning ladies ! Can I rejoin?? Haven't been on for ages but had still been keeping up with our Facebook group. When I read the title of this thread I thought thank god it's not just me. Bubba had been sleeping T least one 8 hr stint for weeks but suddenly she's waking every 3-4 hrs during the night for a feed!! Why??? !!!

Gonn go catch up on this thread now... Wonder how many I've missed .?! Are you ladies still as chatty as ever??! :D