Non sleeping baby for sale - PART TWO

[kaz33]

After three attempts to leave a message on this thread I have to start again.

Codswallop - you still have the hacking bronchial cough to come and total loss of interest in food to come. I'm sure it won't be long before DS2 catches another cold.

We were going to sleep in the lounge last night, got the inflatable bed out ready and then discovered the pump wasn't charged and which point we threw our hands in the air and went back to bed. He woke at 4am, bfight eyed and bushy tailed.

As you can see - I am up and have been for 1.5hours. Everything has changed. DS 10mths has been mostly sleeping from 7-7 from 5mths and is now nearly 10mths. He was always a good eater and is is nice and chubby. He is a breastfed GF baby. He has dropped back his food (won't even open his mouth for old faves), and is not breastfeeding as well as he used to and is now waking in the night. I've got guests coming in two days for 10 days and I hate doing controlled crying with anyone else around. I tried it tonite but gave in after 1hour and fed him one breast but he is still crying. He already has 6 teeth, which weren't that much trouble. He used to reliably do his big poo at lunch, but that has now become unpredictable and is sometimes now early hours of morning. What could be going wrong?

12 hrs!!

btw sorry cant help with gf...

MI - how did the controlled crying go ?

Codswallop - looks like you can close your thread, or are we speaking too soon ?

Well DS2 now does 7pm to 6amish - What I would give for an extra hour in the morning. Why does he do it, he wakes up and then yawns constantly for the next hour and a half..... Stay in bed, please!! But I should not complain, so at five an a half months he is being taken off the market.

kaz you need to re read your desperation further down th e thread! 11 hours? hurumph

Would teething make my ds eat less and drink less from the breast - even though he is up to his seventh tooth. I am worried about losing my milk if he keeps this up. Should I just feed him the second he wakes up and hope that this is a passing fad and go back to cc in a week or so? Any ideas gratefully received. I am wrecked and worried.

I think cc is going to work. I think. Not a nice night at all but far from the hell other people have had at times. It's just a question of getting the non-dummy thing, I think...

...god I'm tired...

Stick with it MI

I know. I hate hate hate it. I KNOW she can settle herself - and has been known to do it on her own w/out sodding dummy before - but I feel horrible when I know it could help her and I won't give it to her. I also know that wandering around like a filthy-tempered zombie is horrible for her and for her sister. I hate not enjoying time with them because I'm so tired - this w/end was a total washout. So it has to go on...

Mi I reckon feed her. I did all this stressing for 7 months and then he just slept - he is a long boy who was very ative (bionic remember) and he neended food. IT WILL PASS and you would be quicker feeding her and getting some esleep than all this fretting.

As- you wont lose your milk I am sure - maybe he will just go off feeding..

they alwasys go off food during teething and maybe some nurofen will help him at night - he may be crying in pain- get a cup of water for night time?

Mi go on chill = youa re not enjoying this. get some sleep

Well, guess what....

A FULL NIGHT'S SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!

OK, so she's done it before BUT I think she may be getting the hang of it. Coddy, I DO take the point about feeding but honestly I don't think that's why she was waking. I may be wrong, of course. I usually am. But just at the moment am feeling like a sub-human rather than a sub-zombie (there's only so much one night can do) and actually capable of going to the meeting I have to trek across London for in about half an hour...

My DS slept through last night, but will wait to celebrate till after his appetite has returned and he has managed it for another couple of nights.

Coddy, I don't have nurofen for ds (don't think it is normal for baby's here in germany). I've got paracetamol, but only to go in his bum, and with instructions of only to use them in case of high fever. I have some gel to put on his gums, and some homeopathic remedies that it is difficult to assess the impact of.

blinking Germans!! I au paired there for a while and they were very homeopathic!! Never mind the exhausted Mum!

well done Mi us too! 12 hrs

And again!!!!

It may be a blip but I do think she's actually learned how to get back to sleep. Hurrah.

Still have the 10.30 breastfeed to drop (will bring it in earlier and then drop it); am keeping it going while she's solely b/fed as it is a significant feed, I'm expressing for the daytime feeds four days a week, and if her need for milk in the day goes up even I baulk at expressing more than 15floz or so (two goes). I need time in the day, to MN and occasionally work!

OH MY GOD.

You have GOT to do something, haven't you...can you face controlled crying?

I had similar problems and then decided to get tough with controlled crying but didn't go completely cold turkey. My dd1 use to wake every three hours at night so i started only feeding her every 4 1/2 and then stretching it by offering cool boiled water - my theory was that if she was that hungry she would take it, if not then it was just comfort. Provided i knew she had had 5 good feeds during the day (at 6 months) then i could be confident that she wasn't hungry. Controlled crying isn't easy and you need to be consistent - the first time it took and hour before she'd settle but after 5 days she was sleeping 7pm - 7am (bliss)

Pamina - methinks that baby is cold!

Poor you - nothing like pressure!

Try some Medised for one noght - might sedate her to get her out of hte habit

Oh, you poor love. Something's obviously up, isn't it. Sounds like you have to give up for a week...and then as you say perhaps pack off dd1? Might the in-laws take pity and take her away after witnessing it all for a week?

I have just had another unbroken night (well, apparently she woke while I was at acupuncture but hey, I didn't have to deal with that and I don't at the moment count evening wakings).

Hi Pamina

Just read your "troubles"... I am no fan of CC but sounds like it would be a good idea.
Can you describe how she is fed during the day????