Type 1 diabetic mums & mums to be damn that dawn phenomenon!

[SpottyTeacakes]

New thread ladies

They could offer me an appointment tomorrow but I need a crown and the prep is a 20 minute appointment so need to wait until Monday when dd is at nursery! Lots of wine painkillers for me!

Puds dp has said no so I'm getting a basset hound instead

Mmm what you having from the Chinese? I have crispy shredded beef and chicken chow mein yum!

A basset hound - lovely!! I'd love a dog but DH not a fan. We have two lovely (and currently completely put out and abandoned) cats.

Before DS I always thought I'd want 3 DCs but right now at 3.45am one seems like plenty

From Chinese we shared chicken and cashew, beef with black bean sauce and shanghai chilli chicken. Only one rice between us tho. Was great. Then had a brownie and an apple (only fruit. / veg of the day, oops).

Horrendous night here. Ds woke 10-11 then 1-5. Dd was up three times for a wee and up for the day at six...

Had a cpl nights like that spotty

Bloody bg 11.7 this morning! Went to bed at 3.9 and ate a biscuit at the time to stop it going too low do i up my levemir??

Thing is ds is five months old now and it's just not getting any better. I might have to go against everything I believe in and think about weaning him if only so he goes longer than two hours in the day.

Hoping I would wait until you get a good bedtime reading then test a couple of times over night and see what's happening before upping it. I know it's a pain but it will save guessing.

Bad night here too. DS slept downstairs from 8.30 to 11.30 (good). Had late feed 11.45 to 11.30. Put him down and he seemed to spend the next 3 hours moaning, groaning and 'chatting' away to himself. Another feed 3-4 and repeat.

Feel like I didn't sleep at all, nor him! Is it normal for 5 week olds not to sleep like that?!

P.s hoping. Were you up in the night? If so, test when you are up for a clearer idea of what is going on. But yes, you might need more levemir!

A ha! We had terrible night too! I'm an actual zombie today. DD was unsettled all night - grunting. What's that all about?

DS is insisting we go to the park to feed the ducks and squirrels (repeatedly).

Oooh - was it a full moon?! LO seems happy as larry. I am slumped on the sofa with him stuck to my boob which is the plan today along with lots of sling time to keep him quiet and allow me to zonk. TGIF so that DH can help me the next two days!!

It's just about a full moon - within a few days of it, anyway! We had a rubbish night as well - and it was nothing to do with the baby, just DS being a PITA. Awake at 2.30 for a drink (cup needed a refill), then again 45 mins later because he wanted to tell me he wanted another drink (um, cups right there son...). And so it went. As a result we overslept this morning which cocked the school run up.

TGIF!

Oh my god, the grunting! I remember it well. V. did it every flipping night for about 10 weeks. We thought there was something really wrong, but she seeeeeems to be growing out of it and now only does it from time to time (fingers crossed).

She woke up at 05:30 today and I had to feed her even my bg was 2.9 - kept stressing about the quantity of milk, but what can you do? At least getting up at that time meant I wasn't late for work! Silver lining, right?

Yes, poor cats bona, ours is well and truly jealous!

Roll on more sunshine and 20 degree days - I just feel so much better about life in general when the weather's decent. Baby doesn't like it though; she's accustomed to snow after the winter she was born in .

I did it. Ds wolfed down half a pouch of pear purée I really feel like I've failed on the breastfeeding.

I haven't tested this afternoon because I had macdonalds for lunch and it always messes with my levels!

Diec - don't think that a low had an immediate effect on milk. The way my dsn described it is that constant lows would affect quantity. Don't think the odd one would make any difference.

God knows what I was thinking but decided to 'get out' this afternoon which involved my first post section drive and a trip all the way to rhs wisley. Think my tired brain figured some fresh air would do us both good! It was lovely, but really should have stayed home and cat napped where poss.

lol well good to know its not just me struggling with levels and yes im usually up at 3am then 7am with baby i correct at 3am if above 7 but still get terrible morning readings finding it hard going from good control to dodgy.

I can sympathise with the grunting ds done it and so does ellie along with a weird noise that makes her sound like a baby goat or something lol

At 5 months old weaning is accepatable is it not?? I had to give ds a spoonful of baby rice made up from around 4.5 months to get any sleep at night lol

I wanted to wait until six months really especially as there's no real need for us to do it before. I can't get anything done though he feeds so often!

I got to 5 and a half months with DS before introducing baby rice. I remember him feeding every hour in the end! It was tough. To be fair though the bloody baby rice didn't make a jot of difference...

I'm sorry to moan especially when it's not diabetes related but....

I've had another awful night. Ds will only fall asleep on my chest and wakes when I try to put him down. I've got a blocked duct again. I'm just so tired. I cry at least once a day at the moment and I never cry even when ds was in SCBU I didn't cry. I really just want to run away from it all sometimes think about doing it in the middle of the night but know ds would go hungry

I shout at dd too much and hate how I take it out on her. Ds is already five months old and I can't enjoy any of this time. I feel like I'm so crap because I can't handle two children. In the day ds wakes, feeds, happy for an hour max, cry for 30 mins at least, sleep then it starts again....

Sorry just had to get that out...also we have no food but I can't even be bothered to get dressed

Oh Spotty!!! I think this is fairly typical after reading the replies on the thread I started!! I am totally petrified of DH going back to work in a week as I keep having glimpses of the hell that awaits!

At the mo DS will not shut up. He cries and tantrums all day long. DD feeds every three and a half hours during the day but every bloody TWO hours through the night. The only reason I'm surviving at the mo is DH getting up with DS to sort him and I'm getting two extra hours in bed.

I know it's fairly obvious but do you think going to bed earlier will help? It's the sleep thing I think that's the worst - with sleep I feel I can cope so much better. When DH goes back I'm going to go up after DDs evening feed.

How is your DDs behaviour? DSs is shocking at mo...did you mention you've put her in nursery a bit? I'm doing that with DS. Perhaps it's time to increase her days!! I felt guilty for a year with DS over every little thing and I refuse to now - it's merely about survival...

Are GPs nearby? Could they have her too?

I do go to bed when I can. Ds goes down at seven but then woke again at 8:30 finally went back down at 9:15 so that's when I went to sleep. Awake 11 until he fed at 2 dp got him into his cot about 3 then he woke 4:30-5 I got to stay in bed until seven but dp has gone to work.

Dd does nursery Monday 9-3 and Wednesday 9-1 then usually goes to mil on a Thursday but hasn't the past two weeks and I still can't cope

You're right it really is about the sleep. On the rare occasions he slept I've been fine. Dp is only off one day a week so I don't want to spend our only day together catching up on sleep

Oh spotty , poor old you.
Could your MIL possibly take one of the little darlings for half a day extra just for a couple of weeks to get you back on your feet? If you express enough milk for a couple of feeds, F would be fine, or won't he take a bottle? Oh, but he could have more fruit puree.

I never go to the supermarket - no time for it - I shop online.

Baby currently (but not for long I'm sure) asleep in Moses basket DURING the day!

Mil has lupus and her dad has just been diagnosed with motor neurone so she can't really.

I always do mine online too but have to wait until ds's in bed. I started last night to be delivered today but he woke up

Excellent on the Moses sleep. It's good to get some alone time isn't it?

Urgh. More misery here.

T cluster fed from 6-10. We went to bed together and he went down fast asleep in his cot... For 10 mins when he started the grunting, whimpering, escape act from swaddle. He has a cold so think he's quite unhappy but honestly I need some sleep!!!

Spotty how old is dd? Any chance of sticking a film on and you dozing on the sofa for the duration? Good luck x

She's three in June. Won't watch films though! She's generally pretty good at playing on her own but there will be trouble if she sees my eyes closed

Ha ha my DS pokes us in the eyes if we shut them! I'm sure we'll laugh at this one day...in a long, long time. I now know why some women rush back to work; and it ain't for the money. More power to 'em!