June 2013 (2) - attempting to get into a routine!

[MrsBri]

New thread for us ladies. :-)

[Mrs81]

Sunny, we have maybe come out the otherside. DS slept from 11pm til 6.45am last night. We've probably had best part of two weeks of crap sleeping...I hope this will be the new norm as off to stay with inlaws for two nights at weekend!

That's brilliant about the weight gain and yy, its def the silver lining to all the wake ups

[curlyclaz13]

dreadful night last night, an hour feed before he went down then every hour after with me not sleeping really between 3-5 worrying about work.
But he has learnt to blow raspberries ! this is hilarious and part of why his feed took so long as he kept bobing off to smile and blow raspberries

[rrreow]

I don't know what to dooooo anymore with regards to sleep. I think it started with sleep regression, but now it's caused Z to completely switch around his feeding patterns. He feeds every 2 hours in the night (proper feeds) and then just isn't interested during the day. I have NO CLUE how to reverse this pattern?? I haven't really got the option to try and soothe him without boob in the night as he'll just cry and it would wake up DH and DS1. [tears out hair emoticon]

Sarah, how about 12.30pm, would that work for everyone? I'm fairly flexible myself though so fine with any other suggestion.

[Sarah2506]

1230 good with me. Though disappointed that means actual lunch and not an excuse to shove cake in face.

Sleep regression was passing here. Back to one wake up. Then last night we dared to go out for our wedding anniversary. She wanted feeding when we got home at 930, then didn't sleep and wanted more food at midnight. And four and six thirty. Then did a massive poo. At which point I just gave up.

Obviously will never leave the house again.

[Sunbeam18]

Respect on the flights/travelling, Oli. With regards to the sleep regression, ours started early at 13 weeks and he is now 16 weeks and I think we are finally turning a corner. He was going down at 8pm then waking 12, 3, 5, 6.30..... Christ. We just couldn't do anything during the day as were relay sleeping. Last night he slept from 8 till 2.30 and then woke again at 5.45. My mum took him till 730 (visiting at the mo) and he then slept till 1015! I put something on Facebook asking friends about how long the sleep regression lasted and some kindly souls replied that it continued until age 2 and beyond...

[rrreow]

Sarah, I'm not sure if they still do them, but they used to do crêpes at that John Lewis café, and you could get a Malteser crêpe. That counts as lunch....

[rrreow]

And anyway I use breastfeeding as an excuse to have lunch AND cake.

[Sarah2506]

Frankly if they make Malteaser Crepes you wil have to drag me out of there kicking and screaming....

[rrreow]

I should obviously complain more.. last night we had only 2 night feeds!!! It was quite weird, because he had real trouble going to sleep, lots of crying, and then in the night after one of the feeds there was crying again. So I wouldn't have been surprised if he'd had a really bad night, but it was fine. Although unfortunately DS1 was up crying at 4.30am... so it kind of killed any short term gain but at least now I know that DS2 can go longer stretches so hopefully we'll see the end of this phase soon. Fingers & toes crossed!

[RueDeWakening]

My ickle baby boy nearly has his first tooth! He's been miserable as hell the last couple of days, and when I was getting him to bed earlier, I found a sharp white line visible under the gum on the bottom right. Waaaaah!

[pinkapples]

Has had just enough of this night waking! That is all

[MadameJ]

Feeling so SHIT this morning, as previously mentioned babies sleep has gone to pot, toddler was up 3 x so in total I was up 8 bloody times. Absolutely no support from the husband (I refuse to refer to him as darling husband because he is a twat!!!) He then told me despite the fact toddler dd was still exhausted that I should let her get up at 5:45 to watch tv. I have had enough that is all!!!!

[Mrs81]

Oh dear. Broken babies (and broken parents) are everywhere. DS's one good night this week was clearly a one off. This morning I am dizzy with tiredness

Hope everyone gets peaceful weekends!

[Olimoss]

Up every 30-40 minutes from 3am. Heaps fun.

Tonight it's CRYTIME. This must end.

[Sarah2506]

I'm tired. Polly is ill and she's teething so she's grumpy as hell. I really need something to look forward to that gets me away from the same four walls. Some of you have been on sunny holidays. I want one.

I've been an extensive traveller in the past but I find it so overwhelming now. How do you manage? sunny when you went to Greece how did you manage to actually sunbathe etc? And read a book? And go for dinner? Our baby doesn't do daytime sleep and certainly won't settle while we eat dinner- anywhere other than her bed anyway.

So how does it work. I want a holiday:-)

[Olimoss]

Sarah - we are taking Joe to Morocco on 30-10. He's just going to come with, and we will just sleep and feed him as needed so we can all chill. I am not going to stress about it.... Otherwise it all gets a bit gah.

[Sarah2506]

What are you staying in? I can't fathom how a hotel would work right now? We went to the lakes with a boot that hardly shut and used literally every thing in it and had the washing machine on every day!

[SunnyL]

Ah Im lucky that lil one sleeps in her pram (only her pram though) during the daytime. We also put a rug on the grass near our pool for bubs to roll around on. She also slept in her pram at night when we went out to tavernas. We transferred her to the cot when we got home and sat on the balcony to drink more.

Not sure that helps you Sarah. Next weekend we're off to the Lakes with 16 others. Will either mean lots of helpers or hinderers (thats if they even notice us as DHs sister is going and she doesnt like the attention to be on anyone but herself).

Can feel our first tooth today.

[Olimoss]

After trip to Oz I learnt we don't need as much as we think, and if you're lucky enough to be breast feeding then all the better! In Morocco we are staying in a villa (not our usual style) and I'll take bare minimum of clothing for J on basis I can do a quick hand wash if needed - otherwise it's formula, nappies, wipes, stroller, a few toys. Thassit.

[curlyclaz13]

Hope you all get a better nights sleep tonight, we are back on every two hours after about three nights with an initial longer sleep.
Oscar properly freaked me out earlier, I tried a little hat on him and was above his head, he did his 'plank' but must of been trying to look at me but it looked like his eyes were rolling and I thought he was having a fit. I still feel sick. he seems fine and I am sure it was just the angle I was at and the hat was on.

[SunnyL]

Curly - lily has done this horrid thing a couple of times where she bends backwards just a little too far. The scream that came out of her was horrid. Just flipping horrid. Made me really worry I'd hurt her.

Oli I'd agree re. clothes. Thankfully as Greece was still quite warm Lil barely wore any clothes during the day. I did find a laundrette in the resort that I could use should the worst happen though thankfully we didn't need it.

[Sarah2506]

Hmm I suppose the lakes are a bad example as we really did need loads of stuff; boots, poles, baby carrier, endless clothes as we were getting hot and sweaty every day, and so was she being carried by us.

But I think the major issue is the lack of daytime sleeping, and the fact she won't sleep other than in bed at night. Last week at a wedding she was wide eyes and cranky after bed time and until she eventually got to bed at 10. So we certainly couldn't go out in the evening. Sigh. And the likeliness of sun in Europe now is fading so it would be next year now. Sigh again. Oh well!

[SunnyL]

So she just never sleeps in the daytime? Not even catnaps? No advice but complete bloody admiration. I LIVE for lilys sleeps. Restores my sanity.

Lil is also a monster if we miss bedtime. We've got one of those travel sleeping bags which are useful as we can change her into pjs and plug her into the car seat which helps calm her.

[Sarah2506]

Only when we are moving. So she will sleep on a walk or in the car etc. But not stationary. She will pass out and wake 10-15 mins later max. I don't feel like I can moan about it as we do pretty well at night. Until the sleep regression hit anyway!

[pinkbear82]

moan alert

Got up at stupid o'clock yesterday to go and sit in a field to watch DP race. This was after dd had 1.5 hours awake during the night. Spent the day cold and un comfy in the van. Came home, did housework the was promised to be done, knees it wouldn't be.
DP falls asleep at 9 as he's exhausted..... Dd up every hour feeding. She wakes fully at 6, I fed and changed her. DP wakes up, here I'll have her. So dd all smiles and giggles with daddy.
I say I'm going to try and get a but more sleep as out for lunch with his mate today.
Just as getting off to sleep he puts the bloody tv on, opens the bedroom door so cat and puppy up on bed jumping round and yapping. Ugh. I gave up and came for a bath.
Would one morning in 5 months have been so much effort for him to let me try and catch up on some sleep. Bloody useless man.

moan over

Morning ladies... Let's hope this sleep regression backs off soon. I'm running out of matchsticks!
Got my best friends wedding at the end of the week, being bridesmaid I kinda wish I hadn't given in to cake and chocolate so much shape wear will hopefully make me feel a bit better.

Hope sleep was a bit better for you all last night. To all