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Non sleeping baby for sale - PART TWO

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kaz33 · 21/10/2003 09:45

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.

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Lamin · 01/12/2003 19:48

I'm not moaning any more!! I haven't dared come back to the thread in case I jinx myself. You watch - I'll have a hell night tonight! His lucky baby grow is fading from being washed so often so he can go back in it every night. How sad am i!

Rach13 · 01/12/2003 19:49

I have been following this for a while now and would be grateful for any advice you can give me. My ds is nearly 6 months and still not sleeping through and is very unpredictable. He is breastfed. He was almost sleeping through at 3 months and things have deteriorated since then. He is on solids, I try to get as much down as i can, I make sure he doesn't sleep too much in the day. Should I be thinking about trying water now instead of milk at night but is a b/f baby likely to take it? Any ideas would be appreciated as there doesn't seem to be an end in sight at all.

ninja · 01/12/2003 19:54

Hi Rach13 - no help just sympathy. My dd, 7 months, is also getting worse. Because I'm back at work I feel bad if I don't feed her when she wakes as she doesn't take much at nursery.

For cods roll call, 7 months and 9 hours (at 8 weeks) recently not more than 4 hours.

I'm too tired to read all this thread!

cords · 02/12/2003 00:24

it is good news to hear how e'ones babies are now sleeping so well ...what happened to mi8ne ?????

for two weeks she woke once for a feed from 7-7 ... now for past two nights she has woken up 2x ...

Cld this be the 3 month growth spurt ? She is 12 wks old today ! Bless !!!! Has a'one noticed these spurs before ??? I am now so tired again after having just abt recovered and got my life back ! The other night she started doing the waking up every hour after 3:30am ...

I cannot wait till I can post that she has slept through the night ...

motherinferior · 02/12/2003 10:53

Difficult to tell how my 23-week old does because of the 10.30ish feed - and because yes she does wake in the evenings but that's also because her adoring big sister insists on 'playing' with her. But we're getting from our bedtime to 7am or so, which is so fantastic I hardly dare write it - with those horrible exceptions.

Rach13, I would really try getting off those night feeds if at all you can. Mine doesn't have them and she's exclusively b/f still. It might help...

Rach13 · 02/12/2003 18:46

Mother inf did your baby just cut night feeds out or did you have to? My dd just cut them out herself gradually so I have no experience of this. My ds is also 23 weeks, sounds like you are doing much better than me!

codswallop · 02/12/2003 18:49

MIne was 6 months before he cut out feeds - and then if he woke unexpectedly I tried to give him water instead (mostly unsucessfully)

I am convinced now that it is because he is very tall and thin so isnt storing much on board.... hence the continual feeding

Rach13 · 02/12/2003 19:03

That sounds like my ds he is 98th centile height but has only ever been 50th or now under for weight. I thought I would keep going with night feeds to 6 months but now it is nearly here there doesn't seem to be any pattern or gradual improvement at all.

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kaz33 · 03/12/2003 15:17

6 months - 10 hours for about two weeks.

Now he has totally regressed and needs to be fed once during the night at about 4am. Won't eat at 10.30ish, refuses food and keeping up past 7pm makes no difference - in fact he normally gets up earlier. But now he is eating at 4am and sleeping till 6.30 I am happier than when he was waking at 5am and then staying up.

My DS2 is also pretty tall wearing clothes for 1 year olds but not a huge amount of fat. Loves his solids though. Didn;t have this problem with DS1, lulled into false sense of security.

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kaz33 · 03/12/2003 15:17

6 months - 10 hours for about two weeks.

Now he has totally regressed and needs to be fed once during the night at about 4am. Won't eat at 10.30ish, refuses food and keeping up past 7pm makes no difference - in fact he normally gets up earlier. But now he is eating at 4am and sleeping till 6.30 I am happier than when he was waking at 5am and then staying up.

My DS2 is also pretty tall wearing clothes for 1 year olds but not a huge amount of fat. Loves his solids though. Didn;t have this problem with DS1, lulled into false sense of security.

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kaz33 · 07/12/2003 14:20

Think I'm coming off the thread - 4 nights 7pm to 7am !!! Famous last words....

Adieu, farewell.

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motherinferior · 09/12/2003 08:45

Yes, I think I'm off too...for the time being at any rate!

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kaz33 · 09/12/2003 13:47

Well now you mentiom it....

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pumpkin2 · 10/12/2003 22:33

Right, here goes, terrified to post this in case it all changes -

Pumpkin - 6 months - 12 hours (7-7) for 5 nights now.....

(Rachel, I honestly think my DS would have carried on waking for a nightfeed as long as I kept 'providing'. Once I stopped feeding, he stopped waking. Was, and is exclusively breastfed, and we have only started baby rice this week for his 6month birthday!)

codswallop · 27/12/2003 21:08

baby ill spent the best part of all last night buring up in my arms - offer would be back on if he were healthier!!

BeccaBigBaubles · 27/12/2003 21:17

Im back - Harvey has been doing 10-12 hours for ages but has started waking again sometimes - not sure if it was my drunken staggering at4am that woke him this morning though

Wonder if he needs more food

motherinferior · 27/12/2003 21:25

It's coff coff coff in the Inferiority Complex

codswallop · 27/12/2003 21:52

its wa wa wa at the wallops. alhought tonight MUST be better than last night.

were at out laws who thankfully have very thick walls. we then slept in till 10 30 as they took the kids, thank god

Mi how do I make the pc remember my password?

motherinferior · 31/12/2003 17:11

Am now considering offering a beautiful, intelligent, good-tempered nearly three-year-old who has taken to waking in the small hours shouting POO! or just wandering towards the parental bed

codswallop · 09/01/2004 10:40

how are your noights gals?

Ds now dropping am sleep but isnt considerate enough to let me know when he wants his lunch tome one.

Much wailing at the mo

motherinferior · 09/01/2004 19:22

Well, ours this week have been AWFUL mainly as a result of illness; also I'm trying to drop that 10.30 feed with variable success (in fact I've done a couple of night feeds this week, since I'm horribly thirsty when I've got a cold and sore throat so I expect dd2 is the same)...but last night was A CLEAR RUN OF 11 HOURS.

Solely, I have to say, because our childminder firmly worked out dd2's nap pattern and then determinedly kept her awake for the rest of the time. So it's two naps, young lady, plus a brief kip at coming-home-time, none of this in-between stuff, and we'll see how that goes...

I love my childminder I love my childminder I love my childminder.

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kaz33 · 12/01/2004 19:53

DS2 sleeping from 7pm to 5.30am - sleep patterns all mucked up by Christmas, cutting daytime naps to sort him out.

Big problem is DS1 who started waking earlier and earlier, earliest 4.55am, now 5.30am. They just wake each other up....

Saying that we almost need that long to get ready in the morning with nanny arriving at 8am...

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codswallop · 12/01/2004 20:06

Mine was up with a dirty nappy last night! at 4 am??

Posey · 12/01/2004 20:30

Can I join the "knackered mums" group?
Ds has just turned one and decided to celebrate this momentous event with a change in sleep patterns.
Lets wake every 1.5 to 2 hours, cry so much when put back in cot that I wake big sister, and then to cap it all lets be raring to go at 5.30.

Well tonights another night.

Nome · 12/01/2004 21:29

I wish to give away ds who has taken to waking sometime between 5 and 6 and is even as I type wailing for Britain. I have had enough - this went on all over Xmas, but he's had 10 days to settle back and instead he just seems to get more and more tired. Any sugestions, other than leaving him to wail? One problem is that he can get to sitting from lying, but not the other way around. [sigh] I feel like joining him in the wailing. Especially as I just know that he will be up at 5.20 or something awful and then dh will bring ds into our bed as cannot be bothered to sit and settle him. ds will demand feed with hysterical wailing and then about 7, after some more wailing we will all drift off into an uneasy hour's doze, me doing my cartoon cat act as I cling to the edge of the bed and the duvet in an attempt to keep warm. I feel like moving out. There's a nice shed at the bottom of the garden - I could sleep there...