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.

an hour and a half deserves a medal.
MOne woke up in s* up to his elbows at 11

Mine sometimes sleeps and sometimes doesn't, see today's post...oh, and she's grobagged.

Me lurker! Have been following for a while to see if we qualify to join in.....DS is 5months next week, generally up once between 11ish when goes down after last feed, and 7.00/7.45 depending how lazy I feel and whether I whack the hairdryer on to send him off again.
Last night and night before woke at 3.59am precisely - spooky, am going to frisk him tonight and check his bedding for alarm clocks!

Me lurker! Have been following for a while to see if we qualify to join in.....DS is 5months next week, generally up once between 11ish when goes down after last feed, and 7.00/7.45 depending how lazy I feel and whether I whack the hairdryer on to send him off again.
Last night and night before woke at 3.59am precisely - spooky, am going to frisk him tonight and check his bedding for alarm clocks!

ooops got a bit impatient thought that hadn't posted so sent it again....sorry

welcome Pumkin - you seem to quailify for theis very exclusive club!

I tank ds up at 11.00 and he then, if he's in the mood, goes until about 7.30. If I don't fill him up he wakes at 2.30 thinking, 'I was supposed to get a drink...the service round here is awful...WAITER!' He's grobagged too, so if the tanking goes to plan (it usually does) he sucks down both sides, burps and starfishes in his cot again without waking. Very sorry if I sound at all smug - it took months and months to get to this point.

If pumpkin qualifies, then I do as well.

Grrr.

Staggering around like small red-haired Godzilla today. I thought journalists were glamorous kitten-heeled creatures? Harrumph.

Bet you have your slippers on MI!!

Nome - welcome

You know me so well, coddy. V superior slippers from the Celtic Sheepskin Co. Should be tax-deductible to everyone without carpets IMO.

I'm joining in if I may, after a blinding weekend. Dd, usually a good sleeper, woke screaming at 2am on Saturday, drenched in sick. Got her all fresh clean soft and snuggly, sat with her at the end of ds's bed (they share a room) for a cuddle and she immediately produced more yuck than I thought was possible for a human of her size. Then she did that amazing baby thing of smiling delightedly at me through the mess - "thank you mummy, I feel much better now I have coated you and the whole room in vomit". By this time ds was awake and keen to party, and dh was awake and keen to have a vasectomy. She woke again Sunday and last night . It's all going horribly wrong and my kids' room smells like a pub doorstep. Dd is fine btw, something disagreed with her, I guess.

motherinferior, maybe I should put on my kitten heels to see if they inspire me to work a bit harder...

hi beccarollo - no I don't wake him at 10pm - he goes down at 6 and does his long stint then. I did wake him a couple of times to see if he would shift his long stint to later, but he didn't. and tbh I hate the idea of constantly waking them at 10, because then you don't give them a chance to sleep for a full 12 hours, which my previous two did consistently at 7.5 wks and 13 weeks...
i can't understand people who still wake their 5 month olds at 10pm for a feed for that reason

Yeah, thats what makes me wary - if you wake them and they sleep when would you ever wean them off it! AS sooner or later they will wake out of habit then anyway hmmmm

How long does he sleep during the day?

Before DS2 got the bionic cold, with which everyone elses baby is now suffering, he had started to drop his late night feed himself - refusing it when offered it, or just having a pittance - i was thinking of stopping it. Now he has become mister random again its back.

OK I give in - have been lurking on this thread for ages but not joining in because I keep thinking I have cracked it .... then something else happens.

SO - who wants a 6 month old whose personal best is 8 consecutive nights sleeping through,(and I mean from 10.30pm feed - PPH I am one of those people!)50p ono.

He did his first 7 - 7 on Saturday night then decides to get raging tummy bug so back to square one last night 9.30, 11.30 and 1.30. Dioralyte for 24 hours says the doc - just can't wait for tonight ...

Lamin - welcome and good luck to all vendors tonight.

becca, his daytime sleeps vary a bit. usually 2 or 3 small sleeps of 45 mins and a bigger sleep in the middle of the day of an hour and a half to 2 hours. but he has some days where he hardly wakes up, except to feed - like today. basically was asleep all day until 3.30 - even slept through his polio drink at the doctor's this afternoon!!! I think his sleepy days coincide with growth spurts because they also coincide with him drinking more (sucked down 5 7 - 8 oz bottles today!)

PPH, I do a bedtime feed at around 10.30 still, although dd2 is 18 weeks today. I was thinking of dropping it (I'd really like to) by moving it earlier and earlier, when the HV started fussing about her not putting on enough weight. Now I'm back working, I've decided to keep the wretched feed going till I stop exclusively breastfeeding (so for about another month or so); because the more breastfeeds she has at home, the less I presumably have to express for her. May or may not be logical, but there is only so much time a day I can spend pumping out milko in our dining room!

OTOH I could cut out Mumsnet and express instead, couldn't I

Anyway, her ladyship woke up several times last night and I am bloody knackered and have spilled expressed milk all over my clean clothes today and have to go to a meeting this afternoon and pretend to be competent human being. Aaaaargh.

Mi what do you do ?(apart from patrol up and down your bedroom all night)

C much better last night - think will be a sleeper thorugher when the c cough goes.

heard ds2 (3) go to the loo all by humself in the night and go back to bed!!

May suspend sale for a while.

Are we table top or car boot?

10.30pm and 4.30 am - not bad considering clear liquid diet. No doubt tonight will be a nightmare.

I think last night was ok, I cant even remember - does anyone get that? So tired in the morning cant remember how many times or what time they were up?

He woke up at 10.30 for a feed then again at 3.30 then up at 7.30

yes Br I dont look at the clock. Hows the rice?!!

Variation on the 3.59 theme for us - 3.30am. Seems to be 4 1/2 hours from whatever time I put him down. Am v disappointed as he seemed to take loads at that last feed and I thought he would make it till at least 4.30!!! AND hes still on medised for his cold!

I feel all out of sorts if I dont look at the clock - I heard that it was best not to so you dont get neurotic but when he wakes i NEED to know what time it is, it could be nearly morning for all i know!!

The rice is still here! Keep finding it all over the place and despite regular cleaning still has a whiff of a tandoori resteraunt - Ill just tell visitors its the new Glade Plug IN

well he woke himself up at 10pm last night for a feed and then went through until 5.45 so that was pretty good, had a good 7 hours sleep so feeling pretty perky this morning!