Misery loves company: anyone want to join me on a support thread for those desperate and demoralised by their 8/9/10 mo sleep?

[Suchanamateur]

Bloody sleep regression. It's like 4 months all over again but worse because it felt (briefly) like we were getting somewhere. Feck. Anyone else want to share tales of woe or is it (a) just me or (b) way too depressing to post about..?

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Drilling I tell you! Stitch has just gone to sleep and the bloody builders renovating our building are drilling so can't even snooze. Don't care how tired dh is when he gets home,.tonight he needs to help me.

Sorted! I hadn't actually clicked on MyMumsnet - just used the drop down menus underneath.

Very cute babies. It is amazing how perky they can be on such interrupted sleep, isn't it?

The postman is always the bastard one to make the noise to wake up DS. He can never just tap quietly on the door if he has a package. It has to be DINGDONGDINGDONGDINGDONG! on the bell.

Cosleeping, we all share the bed. We have a super king up against the wall on one side so we sleep with wall, dd, me, dp. I dont know if its because we cosleep all the time so tyhe novelty has worn off but dd is happy to just sleep on her bit of the bed and only snuggles if feeling poorly so I can cuddle with dp. In practice dd takes up half the bed and me and dp have the the other half.

Well I'm not really sure if I've managed this photo business but one is on there for mates if you can see it.

stitch I am totally digging little Stitch's hair :o

Roar Butter wouldn't melt - 'Who? Me? I sleep like a log!'

I couldn't decide whether I liked the DD1Stitch cornrows or the DD2Stitch baby mohawk/'fro the best...

Stitches hair is carefully styled with a liberal smearing of cream cheese, banana and pear topped with rice grains. Only the best styling products for that mohawk

I agree with Elphaba. Oh so innocent Hear, yet plotting her next night time capers, who could tell?

Aaaah, totally gorgeous babies. :)

Yes, the most amazing eyes there roar

I despair of ever having well babies. Plus DT2 was up about 6 times last night. He's increasingly miserable in the day, happy to be slung on my back a lot, and I'm wondering if its the dairy challenge he's doing, teeth, or this horrible, prolonged cough and cold they've all got. He seems happier without dairy but misery is his only symptom, and maybe a bit of constipation. He got happier overnight and slept better within 4 days of stopping it again last time. Might stop the dairy again anyway and just see... After all, if its his teeth that should make no difference. Why are they so complicated?!?

Mine have got the same cough and cold dreaming, it seems never ending.

Same, although the cough is better than it was a few weeks ago when it was on the verge of killing me. After 12 endless, hacking weeks of the GP telling me it was nothing, he put DS on inhalers which seems to have sorted it. That, or it just burnt itself out, (mostly. Still having a bit of night coughing.)

She is pretty adorable, which is lucky for her or I might have sent her back at 3am this morning. :o

Tjhe one nap thing seems to have gone to chaos. We had 1 nap sat and sun, then 2 Mon, Tues and today. She slept great Sunday and Monday but them was back to hour long wake ups last night. When she is having 2 though they are at completely random times.

Also she seems to be developing a cough and bunged up nose. Aaarrgghh!

Right now she is sitting looking out the window happily munching an apple. You would never guess when spent over an hour sobbing at me because she couldn't work out whether to have a lunchtime nap. Cried if I took her to bed, cried more if I took her out of bed. I really hate dropping a nap...

We are back to 2 naps here so gone with it. Last night was amazing!!! (sleep wise, nothing remotely relating to sex. That's out the.window till dd sleeps better lol!!!)
Anyway, dd went from 7-7 with one wake up to feed at 4am. Bliss.
No doubt i will be.punished tonight just to keep me on my toes.
We too have the endless teething/cough/cold/sickness bug cycle. Honestly its endless

Our sofa sees quite a bit of action but since buying our new bed 4 months ago we have had sex in it once. Oh the joys of cosleeping!

Better night here too, thank goodness. She did 8.30pm to 12.30pm, fed then woke at 4am but needed a complete change of nappy and outfit so by the time I had fed her back to sleep it was 5.30am. Still I got another two hours after that, a big improvement on the previous nights shenanigans. Stitch seems to be sticking with one long nap either before or after lunch unless she is ill, then two naps.

Tonight she seems to be boob wrestling, will be feeding fine then pull away with my nipple still in her mouth then complain that she wanted more when she discovers they are not made of elastic. Not helping that my boobs are already sore as I am seriously pre-menstrual. First period since April 2011 and after two c sections I am not looking forward to it, pre-cramps are bad enough already.

Yes the punishment has began for our good night last night. Sigh.
stitch we too are having to do full nappy and outfit changes at stupid o clock. What is up with that??!

Full nappy and outfit change here as well, and it was all looking so positive...

One wake up at 10pm between 7 and 2. Amazing. At the 2 o'clock wake up I thought I'd man up and try and get him back in his cot, rather than take him to bed with me as I usually do, just to see if he'd actually stay there for even more of the night. He was settling really nicely when he decided to vomit maHOOsively. Big splashy, ever-expanding puddle of BM sick around his head and shoulders. He kept trying to go to sleep too, little star.

Needless to say, we're now in the spare bedroom and I'm fervently hoping he doesn't do an encore.

Stitch...oh, law, do periods get more painful after a c-section?? Joy...nothing since August 2011 and counting here. Maybe I won't feel so cranky about the night time BFing since that's what's probably keeping them at bay

Aaaaand we have another cold!

This is BALLS. BALLS I tell you.

Oh me! Me to! Yes everyone in the roar household has decided to join the mumsnet cold posse. Oh joy!

At least this explains why dd has gone back to 2 naps and also why she has been such a boob monster. She has fed every 2 hours since 6pm, what with all those new teeth I am feeling pretty sore in the nipple area at the moment.

On the bright side she is currently napping in bed so I have made an omelette for lunch and am chilling with some coffee and mn.

Boo hiss to colds.

Stitch's nose is still streaming and her cough is not good. DD1 is better though. We had a wake at 12.30am and another at 5am, but dd1 woke at 4am so I ended up in her bed with her for an hour before Stitch woke.

Elphaba the scar tissue and adhesions can make periods more painful yes, although after dd1 mine were less painful than before I got pregnant (but they were baaaad, hospitalised with them and everything). No sign of it yet, am starting to think if it doesn't turn up soon I should buy a pregnancy test as the symptoms are somewhat similar

Oo-er! Live MN POAS?

Yawn.

DT1 is refusing to sleep in his cot, the little horror. Co sleeping with a baby who wakes whenever you get up is a baaad plan when you're getting up to his brother. A lot. Again. What's that about?! We've just had 5 nights of full changes too, hate them!!!

My period came back a few months ago and it was pretty grim. Though like you I was half convinced i was pregnant so on the whole I was rather relieved to see it :o

dd has had 3.5 hours of naps today. 30mins this morning then 3 hours at lunchtime! so if sleep really does beget sleep I'm in for a night of uninterrupted bliss

Stitch was woken by the blinking drilling today during her nap so fell asleep at 5pm for an hour, doubt she will be in bed early tonight.

Hear I would be very relieved if my period turned up too.

Urgh i am absolutely dreading tonight. Dd teeth gone into over drive and the dribble is immense which is making her cough and choke and then throw up. She has woke up screaming twice since going to bed at 7 then coughing and gagging on her dribble then throwing up. Oh god....

Have you raised the cot head end fee?

As predicted Stitch is only just submitting to sleep now, I am so tired and just want to go to bed.