January 2016 - Hello babies!

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Thread to share our experiences and also have a chat to someone also dealing with lively babies at 3am!

Oh no! I hope it passes soon it takes it right out of you. I had one day OH was leaving for work at 7.30 and I was just sitting on the couch crying I felt like the worst mum ever but I was just so tired. It's good to know I'm not alone.

It will pass hopefully soon just focus on that!

Hope you have a better night tonight Rpj

Whoooop, think may also be coming out of the 4 month recession which like littleelephant lasted from approx 13 weeks - LO now 18 weeks. This week he has gone back to waking 1-2 times a night as opposed to every 1-2 hours!! I usually feed him (although not dilerbetately) to the point where he is practically asleep when I put him in his cot and was becoming concerned he couldn't self southe as when would put him down still awake, he'd cry/scream. BUT last couple of nights I've put him down awake and he has sleepily played with his teddy before drifting off to sleep. Ok, ok - I know this has happened only twice compared to the hundreds of times I've had to pick him up screaming and feed him to sleep, but it shows he CAN do it!! Really hope we are out of this difficult stage - it corresponds accurately to the wonder weeks app I downloaded. As others have said, hang in there!

Well done Elvi1. You made it! My girl is now playing up again with her bottles not taking much during the day but waking in the night to top herself up for what she's not taken during the day.

I've tried loads of different things to try get her to take a bottle as good as what she does during the night but nothing seems to work. Think she's struggling with a bit of trapped gas.

On a brighter note she's so close to sitting up on her own and has rolled onto her tummy on her own a few times! And is loving splashing in the bath so swimming it is next week!

Good to know it ends! We're at week 1(6 ATM with DD waking up all the time, I don't even know how often, it feels like she's never asleep!! She's so tired and grumpy in the day, I hope it ends soon

I think we are coming out of sleep regression too now. 20 weeks and are back to a 6 hour block, then a half hour feed and cuddle before sleeping for another 2 hours. Much more manageable!

Other developments - last injections were rough, she had a bruised leg. She loves sitting up with us holding her hands for balance but she barely tolerates tummy time and has shown no inclination to roll over yet.

Since writing, baby back to waking every 2 hours!!! 😫 We are on holiday this week, back today. Hoping his frequent wake ups are just due to being in a different plAce each night (have stayed in different places last three nights), having lots of things going on around him, and lack of sleep during the day?? We are back today. Really hopes settles down soon, I'm really struggling as I've been ill all week too. I love breast feeding but feel like giving up with it as I can't cope with the nightly feeds anymore. We have his jabs tomorrow. Hope doesn't affect his sleep further.

Elvi1 I feel your pain! We got 2 good night's now we're waking every hour! I gave in yesterday at 4am and took her in beside us. Didn't help at all she still woke up every hour.

She eventually went for a nap at 10.40 yesterday and slept for an hour and a half. She fell asleep lying on our matress when we were playing so I crawled in beside her but now I can't sleep because I'm just waiting on her waking up. She's been. So grumpy lately - since her last set of jags. They were 3 weeks ago. And she's still not eating great during the day. I don't know how your managing to keep bf Elvi1 your doing great!

Hope the jags go ok and you manage to get some sleep soon

Thanks littleelephant, sorry to hear you're not having a great time of it either. Hopefully things have improved since you last posted.

We bought some baby rice and baby porridge today, along with some rusks (bit old school ha) to gradually introduce to baby at some point. I know guidance is not to begin until 6 months, but LO is particularly active with good pincers (or so I've been told!) so thought can't do any him any harm to get a taste for things. We mixed his rusk with my breast milk today and he couldn't get enough of it! It went EVERYWHERE though!

Glad he enjoyed it! We started weening a week ago - she is more than ready for it. She kept trying to get to our plates, had great hand eye co-ordination, when we were eating we were saying mmmmm to get her interested in things. Just before we started weaning her I was eating and she was in her chair watching and randomly hit out with mmmmm. So I thought you know what why not try you with food. She loves her grub now! She doesn't like porridge or baby rice or rusks! I know strange child lol.

She loves the ellas kitchen pouches of individual stuff. We were so surprised at how well she took to eating - thing is I was only giving her a couple of spoons so I know she still needs milk as her main thing but she's just not having it at all.

2 nights ago she took 17oz of milk between 11.30pm and 6am. Waking every hour or so for a couple here and a couple oz there.

So today I've tried her with a little breakfast, a little snacks lunch and a dinner. Plus tried to give her milk before each meal which she wasn't interested in. So been trying to atlas get her to take some water so she doesn't end up dehydrated with this heat.

Going to get her weighed tomorrow so will mention to HV and see what they have to say didn't contact her about weaning as she would have told me I need to wait until as is 6 months. You know when your baby is ready they ain't the ones with them constantly day and night!

P's . . . . Sorry for the huge post!

So HV was no help at all. Her weight gain is good and still following her percentile. Just to keep offering her milk during the day. This is not what I wanted to hear that's no advise or help at all. Slowly loosing the will to live here

In that case I would follow your own advice: you know your baby is ready. And from what you have explained, she sounds dead keen to try food, but you are aware that she also still needs milk as her main source of food, so sounds like you have good intuition about how to wean (although I get that some advice from a professional would have been nice). Next week I think we are going to start giving him some baby rice once a day and maybe introduce something else after 5 months so he's still hungry or his milk.

Another although night sleep - just when I though it couldn't get any worse. Went to sleep at 9pm, woke up at 10:30pm, again at 12:45am - think fell asleep whilst feeding as woke up at about 2:30am - put him down, wakes up at 3:30, 6am and then awake and up at 7:30am. Since then he's had little cat naps - half hour here and there, and I've literally been able to grap 5-10mins here and there. Sleep routine is now completely sporadic and I'm too tired to do anything about it or to entertain the poor boy today. I'm just confused as to why he keeps waking up so many times during the night - I can't tell whether he is hungry or needs comforting, but he does actually drink when offer him the breast. I have a constant headache through lack of sleep. The only silver lining is that LO seems really happy - chatty, alert etc so he's obviously happy with this sleep arrangement! Sorry for the moan

Moan away we are all entitled to it. At least your little one is happy that's the most important thing. My girl has been miserable today. She was so happy yesterday at the beach buy today all she's done is grump.

I feel your pain about the tiredness! I managed to get her down and lay beside her we both woke up 45 minutes later with the workmen outside. I'm the same when she wakes during the night I'm not sure if she's hungry or just wants comfort. I offer her the bottle which she takes but the past 2 nights she's not been finishing them. I just hope it passes for both of us soon! For our sanity

It's mad that we were commenting on how much better our LOs sleep had got - I think I was basing that on 2 nights which were OK!! Yes fingers crossed for both of us, this is tough!

Having those 2 nights gave us false hope cheeky monkeys! Took her time to settle tonight think it's just too hot for her the now. Onwards and upwards! I just keep reminding myself it will pass . . . . . Won't it? Lol. We will sleep one day

Sympathies to you, Elvi and LittleEl. Sleep deprivation is truly terrible, I have my fingers crossed for you that this will change quickly.

Am sat on bed now with my DD who is drifting off in my arms and then waking up and grinning at me when I try and put her down. Cheeky thing.

littlejeaprody thus is what my ds does, just gazes up and smiles as you put him down! Hes currently sleeping on his front with his butt in the air. He rolls over onto his front as soon as I put him down. If anyone else's baby does this, apparently this is OK if they are able to roll over. Been bad sleeper recently, wide awake at 4.30 yesterday morning. But has been really cuddly too which is nice :)

littlejeapordy I hope it passes soon to there just seems no end to it. I gave up at 3am thus morning and took her in beside us again (a habit I really don't want her getting used too). Tonight bed time was a big deal. Took her an hour to go to sleep I was in and out the room. She was doing the same as your little one falling asleep on my arms then as soon as I put her down Bing the eyes are open and that cheeky grin appears! Eventually I managed to get her down on her side without waking her. She's been sleeping just under 2 hours now . . . . First wake up call will be in about 10 minutes not even bothered going to bed yet. She is worth every minute of sleep I don't get but it would just be nice to get to the end of this stage. Rascal

This too will pass!

They are lovable scamps....

'I'm asleep, I'm asleep... Oh I'm flat in my cot, hello Mummy! I love you, shall we play now?.....what do you mean 'bed time'? No, I don't want to hold my teddy and self-sooth... No, I don't like this at all...crying now....ooh your arms are comfy, think I might have a little snooze...'

5 months tomorrow where has the time gone! My baby is getting big too quickly! She's almost sitting all by herself! If she concentrates on something she can sit unsupported for a good couple of minutes. She is loving her food still not enjoying her milk or sleep who needs that anyway. . . . Sleeping on her side and loves in the night garden.

What are all your gorgeous little ones doing now?

Hello

I've missed load on this thread but can't read it all
How is everyone doing.

I notice sleep has been mentioned one of the reasons I came on.

My baby slept ace from 5 weeks until 5 months. I had 7 weeks of what felt like awake every hr or less.

Now awake every 1.5 to 2 hours in the night. Hence Co sleeping or asleep on me she doesn't want to go on own Co sleeper it's exhausting.

Anyone else?

Hello

New to this thread skipped reading 99% of it as who has the time with a 6 mo baby lol. I'm really struggling at the moment with maintaining my relationship with OH, looking after DD and running the business (we both work full time from home - running a B&B).

Please someone else say they are struggling because at least 4/5 times a day I feel like just walking away from it all.

Xx

Hello

I can't offer advice I'm afraid but just wanted to say I'm sorry you feel like this.

It must be so hard running a business with a small baby. I couldn't do it. Could you take a step back for a bit? Have a few days off?

Hello, I've just stuck head in to this forum as I don't get the notifications anymore...

Sorry you feel like this missm0use, I can only imagine how hard it must be working full time - I honestly don't know how you do it as I struggle finding the time to do basic household chores. you say you are not coping very well, I think you are amazing for even being able to remotely achieve this. Although your circumstances are unique to you, loads of mums will have their own battles and I'm sure that there are others that feel so exhausted that they feel like walking away from it all - it's simply cos we don't have that choice hey! My battle is that DS sleep has always been a varying degree of bad. At best he wakes up twice a night which seems to be a rarerity, but many nights (I'm with you firsttimemum) he'll be waking up every 1-2 hours. The worse nights are when he wakes up wide awake at 3am and won't go back to sleep for nearly 2 hours (like tonight - I think I've had 2 hours sleep so far and broken at that). It's during these nights I definetely feel like I'm not coping and want to walk away (to the next room maybe). Usually i feel better during the day although I'm exhausted. I hope things don't feel so desperate now. I'm sure you have considered this and would have done so if it was an option, but could you get someone in to help with the basic duties - someone on their school/uni holidays perhaps? I'm sure if this was an option you would have looked into this so sorry for the lame suggestion. Like first timemum said, could you take some time out, even if a few hours a week? If not possible to leave baby maybe just do something a bit different. I had a cheap pedi spa last week - DS had to sit on lap but was semi relaxing. Also some cinemas have a screening where you can take your baby. Not wholly relaxing having fidgety baby on your lap but again it's something a bit more fun then the normal daily routine. Let us know how you are getting on.

How's everyone. Sleep no better here

No better here either. Still up every 2 hours after 11pm and the baby has decided to throw in a midnight playtime and awake clanging around for up to an hour a night also 😫