January 2014 - hoping for more sleep

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I am soooooo tired today. Archie has been really unsettled the last few nights from about 4am onwards. Sometimes he's hungry, sometimes he wants to play, sometimes he wants his dummy. The last two nights he's ended up in with us as it's easier to replug the dummy, pat etc.
YAWN.

altered do you have to do all those things? Or can some wait/not be done? Like the painting?

I'm walking to Asda right now. H woke up at 4 and co sleeping wasn't settling him, so i figures I'd go to Asda with one child, much easier as he's awake. But I'm going to crash later!

altered could some of these visitors come another time! or stay somewhere else, or maybe help out? You seem to have loads of house guests all the time, I don't know how you manage! Especially as you have two dc to look after. You deserve a medal!

getting everyone else has already said wise things, so I'll just agree with them and say that I know you and H will be fine even though it doesn't always feel like it

That sounds like a hard day toby I hope she slept through to make up for all that!

DH is on his second day off sick with a cold not hay fever, oh no Persephone finally has her third set of jabs this afternoon as well, which I'm dreading. DH has also arranged for a plumber to come and quote for a new bathroom an hour after the jabs, and at the same time as the Tesco delivery. Good job he's sick as he didn't bother to check the time of the appointment with me . Oh, and a roofer is coming to give a quote tomorrow. AT 8AM.

Good luck, Percy!

Good luck Percy

Altered I echo what everyone else has said! I really hope your guests can give you a hand.

Book that is A LOT going off at once

Sorry everyone who is having a hard time at the moment Sylvie was up at 3am kicking her legs and wanting to play and it took me an hour and a half to get her back to sleep. And the batteries in the tomy starlight ran out!! NOOOOOO! She's still waking up every 2 hours to feed but I'm hoping the weaning will help once she's eating more. Yesterday she had avocado. Very messy!!! Also she rolled over again twice yesterday and I missed both times. I swear she does it on purpose..

The feeding every two hours is so hard felix, you have my utmost sympathy. Percy only practices rolling over at night. She obviously thinks it is in secret, but she doesn't know that I'm only pretending to be asleep.

She just vommed on her fourth outfit of the day. So far it is vomit 2 - poo 2. Which will win?

Thanks everyone. I have now stopped being a self pitying bore but still indulging in procrastination.

getting your love for Henry shines through in every post you write. You are his favourite thing in the whole world. You are amazing, you can do this and when it feels too much we have got your back.

Toby I comiserate. It is really hard.

Thanks everyone for the support. In the end I picked DD up from school and we went to the park, where she raked around in the dirt and then she and N bumped heads when I tried to catch her on the slide. I then took her home and fed her a chicken sandwich and chips from the kebab shop. We sat around in the filth pit the flat had become until DH came home, then I went for a nap and had him clean up.

Good luck to Percy with her jabs, and my money is on the poo.

Thanks everyone. I have now stopped being a self pitying bore but still indulging in procrastination.

getting your love for Henry shines through in every post you write. You are his favourite thing in the whole world. You are amazing, you can do this and when it feels too much we have got your back.

Toby I comiserate. It is really hard.

Thanks everyone for the support. In the end I picked DD up from school and we went to the park, where she raked around in the dirt and then she and N bumped heads when I tried to catch her on the slide. I then took her home and fed her a chicken sandwich and chips from the kebab shop. We sat around in the filth pit the flat had become until DH came home, then I went for a nap and had him clean up.

Good luck to Percy with her jabs, and my money is on the poo.

Why is my baby suddenly the grumpiest person in the world?! She won't nap properly, she wants to feed all the time, she's awful to get to bed, and when she's awake she's just whiny and grumbling. Aaaaaarrrrrrgghhhh!

Same here Toby. I dunno what's wrong with him. It's murder to get him to nap, white noise helps, but he's just so nosy. He also grumbles constantly, usually with his fist in his mouth. He wants to be held all the time. It's doing my head in to be honest

Mine too. It's bloody hard work!

Me three! She's been bloody whining all day and hasn't napped at all.

Also, the score is currently vom 3 - poo 2. Still all to play for with the jabs later...

I know I'm late to this but you guys have just made me feel better! Thanks

I have a DC2, born early Jan. He is waking for the day any time between 4.30 and 6 (if I'm very very lucky) as well as feeding twice in the night.

Last night DD (2.3) woke as well.

I'm exhausted.

And DS is so grouchy and won't nap today without a lot of fighting either. Been trying to feed him to sleep for about an hour and a half. Feeling a bit of a failure :(

Whinge over and another thanks

Hi make

Henry was born 8 Jan, and Toby's little girl was born the same day. It makes it easier when others are going through it doesn't it?

The whole "misery loves company" is true

It certainly is.

Finally got him down. Checked wonder week app, not that :( just a bad day then.

NOOOOO. NOOOOOOO,

I got her to sleep for the first time today and then some phone marketing bastard called and woke her up. I cry.

Hi make. My DD was born 10th Jan and is currently a bit of a misery guts that refuses to sleep. Sounds like a common phase!

Hi make

My ds was born 1st jan. He is currently swinging between dream baby sucking his thumb off to sleep on his playmat to terror baby who can take hours to settle off to sleep and then eyes ping open as soon as I put him down. He also has the shits, which is lovely.

I also have a 2.3 year old who still wakes in the night at least 50% of the time. She has a cold but on a positive note is losing her voice and therefore less (audibly) whingy.

Oh more misery company!

DD isn't really supposed to have an afternoon nap anymore, just quiet time.

Took so long to settle DS she's fast asleep. Made the mistake of waking her yesterday and am not doing that again. Who knows what tonight will bring...

Poor you dealing with diarrhoea too :(

Ds1 is 2.9 and is normally in bed after cbeebies ends at 7, yesterday he woke from his nap at 5 (i forgot about him.. Whoops) so didn't go to bed until 9!

We have a dietician apt on Thursday at my house around 3, finally!!

AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH! NOW she's a-bloody-sleep. It'll be bathtime in half an hour.

Hi, make :)

Just to make us all feel worse, my cousin and his wife are visiting from Scotland. They have a baby boy born 1st Jan. He sleeps every few hours in the day. She just feeds him and then puts him down in his cot awake and leaves him to sleep. At nighttime she does the same, then dream feeds him at 10pm and he sleeps through. He is the smiliest, sunniest baby you've ever seen. I am going to do a stealth swap.

Thank you everyone :)

Sorry everyone else is struggling too

Hi make

Hi Make! This thread has made the whole pregnancy/FTM thing so much easier for me - everyone is really supportive and it's an ace place to vent. Welcome

Can I add F to the Vile Babies Gang? Don't know if it's the hot weather, but he's been all over the place the last two days. Sometimes suddenly starting to scream and shriek his head off for no apparent reason, it's horrid. Feeding v frequently (every 60-90 mins) seems to help - might be a thirst thing I guess? He's also decided that 5am is soooooo the best time to wake up for the day... I look absolutely awful at the mo, so knackered!

Then he smiles at me and I forgive him for absolutely everything

Shit, Angel, I hadn't even thought about thirst
I've just been silently annoyed at being pinned to the sofa while she cluster feeds like a newborn. But she was probably thirsty. I am an idiot.

At least Meredith sleeps at night. For that I am eternally grateful and I'll put up with the whingeing and non-napping in the day.

Glad it's not just us, then!

Henry isn't fussed about the heat, he's mostly just been in a vest for the whole time. Nor has that made him drink more. He's just Henry

Joining the non-sleeping baby club! She is tired but won't stop whinging and wriggling. I've tried everything to get her to sleep. AHHHHHH