December 2012: 8 hour sleeps and chubby chops all round

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New thread for us ladies

Yay Seymore! Glad you got some sleep. Whereabouts in NZ are you going?

I hope I lose weight soon

I started a diet yesterday, it's 6 weeks til I'm a bridesmaid and I am fat! Nothing fits and I feel so uncomfortable.

We had an hour of horrific wailing at bedtime last night followed by a mucusy vomit. He's then coughed loads this morning and sicked up his first bottle.

Very jealous of all the trip planning

That is a lot of formula eggs, hungry boy.

We're going to Queestown, I've never been to NZ before! I'm really looking forward to some cooler weather, I can wear DS without sweat pouring down my forehead!

ski hooray for rolling! DS rolls onto his side and flops back at the moment.

Oh poor DS willyou is he unwell? What diet are you doing? I'm keen to try 5:2 but it's not recommended for breastfeeding! I should just lay off the snacks really.

Ds doesn't roll or giggle yet

I've been to NZ twice I hope you have a good time. Buy some perky nanas mmm yum.

Well our night was ok down at 7, dream feed at 9 (I was tired!), feed 1:40 and 4:30 up 7:20. Dd on the other hand is still asleep she usually gets up at six!

He's fine in himself, just projectile vomited the feed. He's refused any more so we'll see how he is later.

I'm MFPing Seymore, I'm short and have just over a stone to lose so I only get 1300 cals a day. And there are still Easter eggs in the house Made lots of butternut squash soup yesterday and my friend is cooking me brunch today, she's doing slimming world so hopefully it'll be healthy but tasty. My problem's chocolate, cos I gave it up in pregnancy I have been stuffing my face with it ever since.

No rolling here Spotty and we got one giggle 2 weeks ago and nothing since!

We got a proper belly laugh this morning! Well-timed, as she was up at 10.30 (woken for a dreamfeed but refused bottle, so I had to wake to feed her), 12.30, 3.30 and up for good around 5.30am. Am bloody exhausted. She's down for her nap right now.

Why refusing bottle WHYYYYY.

Ispy, I have really prioritised travel in my life. Lucky my husband is the same, and lucky we're fortunate enough to be able to save to fund it.

Seymore, Queenstown is lovely. Any chance you can hire a car and see some of the surroundings too? The South Island is pretty much flawless.

Am not dieting as seem to be shedding weight a bit drastically. I think C is a super hungry baby and sometimes I don't eat much of a day. Stocking up with cakes probably not the healthiest option. Good luck to you chaps who are being disciplined!

spotty ds2 is extremely stingy with his giggles and it's normally at completely random stuff. And he's rolled front to back (the easiest way) once and from his look of shock it was complete fluke!

NEWSFLASH last night ds2 slept 11.15-4 and 4.15-8.20!!! I completely missed DH leaving for work this morning and leaked through my breast pads all over my bra Fx that we have turned a corner after last weeks every 2 hrs (or less). It definitely feels like there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

In other news DS is now being choked by my let down

Willyou I think corrected our ds's are similar age?

Hope WL is ok?

IsThat when I had that it lasted nearly a week it's a right pain

it's dh who wants me not to feed at night :( gets me down. thinks he's doesn't need it but if it's 2 hours later and breast milk is digested in that time he must need other. bloody no cry sleep solution book.

it not other

clarella I've always fed at every waking. Even of they're not starving what harm is it doing? It's not your DH having to wake, tell him to mind his own! I have also been known to feed DS even when he's not particularly hungry if its convenient for me (ie if we're going out soon etc) if he's really not hungry he wouldn't eat but that's only happened once

I need batteries for my scales so I can weigh DS. He must be pretty huge by now!

Yay well done mini IsThat hopefully a sign of things to come.

I think they are Spotty, DS was due 22nd (although my dates said 18th and I was already in slow labour on 15th).

clarella Tell him that your DS hadn't read the book and if he's hungry you'll feed him.

My DP was driving me mad at bedtime last night. J was screaming the house down and it was a pain cry. He kept saying give him here I'll try, give him to me. I think the crying was really stressing him out so he thought it must be getting to me too but I was fine. He then managed to fire calpol into DS's lungs as the syringe got stuck and he just brute forced it . It was just an accident and I told him so, but it could have been avoided if he was just a bit more patient.

We put calpol in next to my finger as ds likes to suck my finger ds is a bit younger than J (technically) then he was due 27th dec.

Oh we're going out today to gunwharf. Wish us luck with a grumpy baby and potty training toddler

you will never guess what just happened!! DS just self settled! It won't happen again so I'm going to savour it. I was trying to feed him to sleep but he unlatched and sat up, so I popped him in his bed and went off to get the other DCs in their pjs. I could hear him sucking his hands, then 5 mins later he was fast asleep.

Hooray for sleep isthat!

clarella I would tell DH not to worry, you will all get more sleep if you feed at night wakings and it's not forever.

mama we've hired a car! We're there for 6 days. Any tips??

I'm feeling a little fragile and sleep deprived. Had a long day yesterday and made a special effort to go for a walk and cook dinner. DH didn't get home til nearly 8 which is when T should be in bed, so I had no break at all, a grumpy baby and had had no lunch. Then I was up feeding at 10, 12, 2:45 (woo, nearly 3 hours), 3:40, 4:20, 5, 6 and 7. Tried keeping my eyes closed this morning after T woke but was still happy, and he was sick everywhere. Cue me bursting into tears :(
His sleep has been awful this last week, waking every 1-2 hours all night long. Last night I realised he's maybe not even hungry, as he seems to settle so quickly and not really drink much. Have I 'trained' him to keep waking for nipple and comfort? I've always fed as soon as he wakes so as not to disturb DH. I'm wondering if ice broken my baby and am doomed to years of this now? He used to sleep so well! Birth till 8/10 weeks he'd sleep 4-6 hours at a time. It's been getting progressively worse since, and at 14w I'm ready to collapse or explode.
To top it all off my dad went in for major heart surgery last week, so I've been worrying about him and the main contact for all my family giving updates to people. He's doing ok now, but there's a chance they'll have to put him back under anaesthetic and try and shock his heart back into a normal rythm. I can't get down to visit him easily, and the hospital really haven't looked after him very well. He's lost over 10kg in weight since last Thursday, and he didn't have any extra weight to lose (he was only 68kg to start with). I really hope they send him home soon, he's got a good friend waiting to take him under her roof and actually look after him.

Sorry for me me me. Just so stressed and tired. I'll go catch up on some of the last few days of posts I've missed.

stacks DS is 17 weeks now and we've had 2 weeks of awful, awful nights (waking every 90 mins or less) and he hadn't done a 4 hr stretch for a month. We've also had hourly wake ups from 4am. He had a good night last night but he's got a cold so I don't think it's going to last! My older 2 woke every 2 hours until they were 5 months old and I fed them every single time. At 5 months they started doing the odd the 5 hour stretch and it went from there, by 1 year it was 7-7. It's so hard but it will improve and you definitely haven't broken your baby!

I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad, hopefully he can come home soon. Can you speak to his consultant about his weight loss?

Hugs hugs hugs. Haven't time to write much but you haven't broken your baby! You have loads on your plate and baby's going through a challenging time. Can you cut yourself some slack, get ready meals for a week, get someone to take baby for long walk while you nap? So sorry to hear about your dad. You poor thing, I hope things pick up for him.

However, tsk for breaking the rules - no apologising for me me me posts! :)

Thank you for reassurances. Feeling better having read the posts from everyone else over the last few days. I guess it's true 'misery loves company' so many of us having sleep problems just now. It's kind if nice to know I'm not the only one.
Also just got off the phone with my dad. They're looking to send him home today hopefully :)

Stacks 1) their brains aren't big enough to learn stuff that complicated yet 2) 4 month sleep regression. Every tim Rs sleep gets fucked, he does something big - babbling, laughing, rolling, finding his feet and willy etc. It's the brain struggling to assimilate all the new information. Imagine starting secondary school every minute of every day

I reduced calories and my milk reduced massively so I decided dieting could wait!

Stacks any chance you can feed lying down so you get some rest too?

So sorry you're having a tough time stacks. You have to remember that it WILL get better. In a couple of months things WILL be easier. You WILL get there eventually. In the meantime get rest when you can and accept as much help as is offered.

I still need to lose a lot of weight too, but don't want to diet while bf. My plan is to do as much exercise as I can and eat when hungry but try and eat healthy food as far as possible. I am still losing weight but vv slowly!

Stacks, hugs and kisses sent your way from me and H . I hope your dad is ok and that he puts weight back on soon. Your LO isn't broken but sleep deprivation is a horrible thing for you. I've been trying the 90 minute since last week and sometime she literally closes her eyes and wakes up a second later. However the last 4 nights she has slept for a 3 hour period from 1am till 4am then up every 40-60 minutes this is a huge improvement

Willyou hope your LO is feeling better soon

Isthat yay for sleep

Clarella i also feed every time she wakes of a night. But people keep telling me to stop i have to remind them shes only 4 months old.

Also i'm not dieting although i need to i'm starting exercise as soon as i've eaten all the easter eggs haha