October 2014 // thread 4 // a lot of night feed chatting!

[sazzlehopes]

Welcome everyone. You're doing a good job by the way. Remember that.

I'm sure it's nothing, fuck I hope it's nothing. Just a bit weird that those two things appear two weeks after we started shagging again.

pregnant I've just got into bed. Need today to be over, it's been fucking hard!
Constant mummeeeeeeeeeeee from ds1 play hide and seek, basketball, jigsaws, build a marble run, races, cook a roast, tidy up whilst looking after the baby and having a pounding headache!
Broken.
And being harassed about Christmas plans from the inlaws!!

Roll on tomorrow hangover ladies nothing worse eh?

Eeeeeek goats that would be some christmas suprise!!

Jeanne. Lol at your mum "he sounds cold" love it

Goats there's one on every post natal bus that sends the rest of us scampering for contraception

Yellow there were 3 on my last bus...me being one of them...all born within 3 months of each other..

Ours yielded a lady with a 10 month age gap that said her DSs are incredibly close now, even if she has a nervous twitch and manic stare now . I have my coil chat with the doc tomorrow and next year DH is getting the snip. In the interim I'm nervous as I fell preggers first try with both DC

4am. Just me, then?

(Admittedly DS's previous feed was at 8.30pm...)

I'm up! Anyone else? Bit early for us but actually works better as I'll get a bit more sleep if he wakes later than 5am I may as well stay awake, so he needs to make it to 6:30ish to make it OK for me!

I'm just up, DS been asleep since 10.30! Nice. Owchy boobs though.

splendide that's good sleep! :)

I'm going for a quick turnaround tonight. Trying to cut our hour down by 1/2 as I think me DS is doing a lot of comfort sucking & not drinking!
How are things after a rest splendid?

Oops I forgot your e

Things feel a little brighter, thanks.

I've done it! Bit of a rocky transfer but think it may have worked. FX!!
splendide your LO sounds very, very like my refluxy DD. She was my first & I was totally confused by this crazy, screaming bundle. I could tell she wanted to be happy as I saw little glimses of it but the pain was obviously a lot for the little sod. As soon as she was on the right medication I had a dream child. I remember at 4 months my MIL asking if she ever cried as she hadn't heard her. We went on holiday with my MIL when she was just over 5 months & she cried once in a week! Little miracles can happen.

I hope that can happen for us, I just want him to be happy!

FX for your successful transfer! I've never managed to get DS down after his early morning feed but maybe tonight's the night. I'm just feeding him the second side now.

Thank you for thoughts on Christmas and routines. Anyone's supply gone a bit mad? Generally don't express in the mornings at weekends but spent all this weekend with full to bursting boobs! Now the same and thinking should express one side (but usually don't til 8 ish)

Wow i have a different baby! Think meds are working? She slept from 10.30 to 5.30 with no grunting or choking, her feeding is becoming regular and she is taking a full bottle instead of dribs & drabs. I just need to learn to relax now and not lie waiting for her to wake up, i basically lay awake from 3 till 5 thinking "she's going to wake soon"

I didn't manage to get pip anywhere near the sleepyhead last night. She went in asleep three times but woke up yelling within 5 minutes. Never has this issue until Saturday night while we were away. I can let her off that one, but last night was just annoying! She ended up sleeping on my bed, about 6 inches from the sleepy head - ridiculous. When I pulled her out for the third time and put her on the mattress next to me she immediately stopped howling, looked straight at me, wiggled a tiny bit closer, shut her eyes and went to sleep. And stayed asleep for 6 hours, weirdo.

Being pregnant not would put them in the same school year - bit embarrassing. I'm sure it's nothing bit I might go buy a test anyway. Pregnancy's hormones will be out of my system yes?

tatty I studied music, so not a scientist .

I've been mostly lurking on here recently, but just wanted to moan about how jealous I am of all these babies sleeping long stretches. Ds is 9 weeks and even after cluster-feeding all evening still has never managed longer than 4.5 hours (and for the last week has been waking after 3). I can sometimes settle him without feeding at the first night wake up, but rarely manage to transfer him back to the Sleepyhead.

Last night he slept 10.30-1, 2-4.30 and 5-7 all in the SH, which counts as a pretty good night for us, but what I wouldn't give for 10-3...

Resolution for this week- get baby to nap in the daytime. Wish me luck.

splendide and stigz Yay for better sleep!

goats We have nights like that. DS will wriggle and squirm for hours in his cot (a cosleeper, he's two inches from me) with not a sign of going to sleep. I eventually shuffle him over into our bed next to me and he's out like a light. His record sleep in that position is 9 hours (obviously I laid awake for most of that because I was totally paranoid about squishing him)
... and, erm, good luck with the test !

lebkuchen I started to see a definite increase in DS's feed intervals at about 8-9 weeks (he's now 11+). Fingers crossed it's the same for you.

May I ask a stupid question?

How do "normal" babies spend their time? Mine is happy for maybe 20 minutes at the absolute most then he's crying again. I'll feed him and he'll feed until he's asleep. Then he'll often wake up 5-30 mins later and he's angry again. Naps in the day now almost non-existent. But then he's not too bad at night, he'll do an ok stretch from about 11 pm. But by then the poor thing is so tired! It's crazy. I spend all afternoon trying to get him to sleep but nothing works for long.

splendide that's not a stupid question- I'd quite like to know the answer too. Here she wakes up, has a feed, is happy for between twenty minutes and an hour, gets a bit grumpy, I think sod it I'll just feed her again, then either equilibrium is restored or she goes to sleep. The longer she goes without a good nap, the shorter she goes without moaning. In the evening, though, all bets are off. We try and distract her but a lot of the time I let her suck because then she's quiet and happy. We keep trying her on a dummy but it makes her gag. I'm slightly worried this description makes me sound like a really crap mum.

splendide I think it's fairly normal for babies to only be awake and cheerful for very short periods at this age. Ds enjoys nappy free time for about 30-40 mins with plenty of attention from me (2mins on tummy, then held standing, then 5 min on back staring out of the window, then standing again, then on back, etc). He'll also put up with a massage without fussing (15 min, perhaps) and will sometimes lie under the baby gym for up to 10 min on his own . As far as I can remember, dd was worse and required constant adult entertainment when awake until she reached the age of being able to empty containers (9-10 mths) .