Non sleeping baby up for sale.

[codswallop]

why will my 5 mth old not sleep through?
e=ven only one eed a night would be nice.

Down at 7.30 - fed at 12 and then again now at 2.30 !!!!! Think she may have a cold as very snuffly - can hear her wriggling around in cot now - here's hoping she lasts still 7! Can also hear DH snoring in bedroom...I am going to struggle to get back to sleep ..ho hum. May try calpol tomorrow night (on dd that is) as she was very "otherwise" yesterday so think also teeth may be bothering her - excuses excuses !

much better night - stirred in the evening momentarily and then gave him 5 ml of Medised and he slept till 4 am when ds2 was howling (cough), fell asleep after a feed till 7am!

His day pattern is now ONE sleep form 9 am till 11 am an dis then awake till 6pm!!

Things definately getting better here after a few horrible nights involving teeth, crying and lots of calpol being spilt in the cot!

Dd is not feeding at night now, will sometimes have early morning feed at 5.00am and then back to bed until 7am - 7.30am. She did 13 hours the other night! daytime routine not brilliant but she is eating a lot better and only has 3 milk feeds per 24 hours.

I think it helps because I am feeling a lot calmer now. AF has returned (with a vengeance I have to say )so can only blame my hormones for turning me into neurotic mother for a while. I do think that both kids react when I am stressed and I know it has been said before but babies are babies and they do get there in the end.

Thanks for the support, it has been so nice to know that I am not the only mother who has a wilful baby who wants to eat all night. Hope you are all getting more sleep
love L
xxx

PS- have been trying homeopathic teetha stuff which did not work for ds but is definately helping with dd. Always thought it must have been a placebo effect on parents but I was too sceptical for this to be true!

Calpol still the ultimate sanity saver though

Dd only recently - at around 18 months - stopped waking for a feed at night. I think cranial osteopathy has helped her, but it's just as likely that she would have stopped of her own accord anyway. I worried about this a lot as 'all the books' say they'll never stop waking up on their own so cc is the only way. I'd just like to say that's b@%%@ck$.

thamks tomps.

an unknown occurence has just happened here - he stirred twice and then WENT BACK TO SLEEP!

hooray

Tomps - you put that much better than I could have!

Codswallop - Hooray for Charles, am going to have glass of Baileys to celebrate for you

i'm happy for you
is he really awake that long Cods?! DS just got second tooth this morning so probably that was the reason he used to wake up last few nights, but i'm calmer now and don't rush to him, most of the times he settles himself. i'm getting enough sleep now - big thanksgiving from me too!!!

would like one too. He stirre again at 11 and I cuddled him for 3 mons and he slept till 3 am when he fed. I was so awake by then I could have got up!

Oh yes he is awake and crawling around

And the clocks go forward soon, my lovely friends. Just as I was thinking that a 5am wake was ALMOST bearable.

Dd1 fast overtaking dd2 in the saleable stakes, I have to say. And she goes to bed MUCH too late. Am going to check bedtimes thread again and try and ram it into dp's brain that 8pm is not on. Have started doing separate routine for the babe - who, btw, is chomping on her fist and dribbling and generally behaving like a girl with teeth on the way...oh dear...

Awake at 4.00am, tried to convince her that she was not hungry but she was having none of it so I gave in and fed her. Then they both woke at 6.00am wanting to play. Could sell them on a 2 for 1 offer perhaps!!

I wish dd would crawl, it might stop her screaming when ds pinches her toys!

Yep, DS2 has got worse - up at 3.30am last night.

HE IS TEETHING - doesn't want to eat, sleep or do any baby like things.

Awake at 4.00am again and this time would not go back to sleep until 6.30am and then woke at 7.00am as normal. Not teething - just wanted to play. Not so much for sale as free to a good home now

Meddised them! Mine fine but still awake from m idday till 6pm!

Probably sounds really ignorant but what's Medised? I feel a bit bad now as I think she has got a bit of this tummy bug that has been going around so offer withdrawn. Explains why she is off her food a bit. Ds, the virus magnet, had it a few days ago.

He does really well to stay awake that long during the afternoon. Dd would get too grumpy to bear, but if I let her sleep after 3 0'clock I would never get her to bed at 7.00pm.

Sorry - talking about yours staying awake in the afternoon not mine.

Have to go before dh cottons on that I am not doing invoices as I said

medised is paracetomol wihth antihistamine in it - very good for sleep inducing esp with night coughs.

Definitely contemplating keeping dd2 - woke up at 7 this morning! - but flogging dd1 at cutprice rates. I think dd2 would have slept through but it's hard to tell when an older girl is bellowing I CAN'T SLEEP IT'S NOT SLEEPY TIME I DON'T WANT MY BED...at least yesterday it was late at night rather than small hours of the morning, but I don't like it! Stoppit NOWWWW!

LOl MI

I tried to stave off a feed at 3 15 am - by 4 am I gave in as it was almost am!!

Crap Mum

DS2 up at 2.30am, 5.30am - keeping DS1 for the moment !

MI has DD2 been re-esttling herself at night, or don't you know as shes not in your room any more

I think she settles herself most of the time now. I have to admit I'm actually using the dummy more as a sleep cue as I'm really keen on getting her to nap properly and/or stay asleep at, for instance, 3am.

Do you remember when a full night's sleep meant precisely that?????

Hi,
White noise is a great help in calming/getting our ds to sleep. Perfectly Happy People (thebabycatalogue.com)do a small tape player with built in speaker, & 3 tapes (washing machine, hoover, hair dryer, etc)(BW2016)for £12.95. Works wonders with our ds.
GF has been a godsend, 3 nights in 4 our 5 week old only wakes once during the night at 3:30am for a feed, & the amount he takes is reducing so thinking about introducing sugar water at this feed. He occassionally wakes up at 5ish, but a cuddle & a 'wind' usually gets him back to sleep in 10 mins or so.
Supplementing bf with formula at 10 am and 10:30 pm has also been a great help, especially on ds 'sucky days'.
Now starting to think about another one, 4 weeks ago we'd have given this one away free to a good home

I was sorting hi out at 8pm and 3....But I am not introducing formula though at 6 months.. or a bottle.... so prob remains.

I am thinking of binning bf at night though and giving him a cup of milk.

I'll have your babies as long as you take mine (22 weeks) - last night (for example) awake at 11.30 until 2.30 (finally gave in and fed at 2)fed again at 5.30 she's worse than she was at 7 weeks! Then I feel awful in the morning when she smiles up at me. This by the way was the best night for a bit. I can't believe a bit ago I was posting about daytime naps (now no problem) - aah maybe some connetion? Too tired to think