Misery loves company: riding the mo fo out into Part II

[ElphabaTheGreen]

In our last exciting instalments:

Needles was at breaking point with a screaming 10 mo DD

Hear had experienced the magic of ONE unbroken night!

Dreaming was continuing to confound all with her ability to manage three children on four or five minutes a night, thanks to DT the Terrible.

Stitch was still having her sleep eaten by...erm...Stitch.

Poppy was pondering how the actual fark she was going to manage a newborn on top of BabyAmex's night time shenanigans.

And the desperate Elphaba had turned night duties entirely over to DH with mastitic results.

Join us with your stories of misery and woe in this, the most sleep-deprived corner of MN!

Dreaming you poor thing… I don't know what to say.I stuffed DS with garlicky milk with honey when he had the cold and it helped.I know your DTS are dairy-intolerant so maybe a bit of garlicky water administered in calpol syringe?I also gave DS onion&sugar juice as it's antiseptic but don't know how well it goes with reflux and how your DTS would react-DS would eat tree bark if I let him.

BR hope you won't stay long on this board.I've got 18 mo DS who sometimes sleeps sometimes not (but not too bad) and am currently pg.

Stitch I hope you're relaxing now with miniStitch no.3 at your side :)

Update: still preggo labour ward went crazy due to a combination of full moon and ladies trying everything to get into labour before Christmas. Back to back emergencies meant my csection is now hopefully on for Monday provided it all calms down. They had to close to new admissions it was that bad.

Welcome BR it truly sucks when you have two poor sleepers/early wakers. I have two, soon to be 3 kids. Once 4.5 year old who bless her does sleep, but since I have been in hospital climbs into our bed from 5am. Then there is stitch who has been a poor sleeper since weaning started. She likes to fall out of bed and sleep on the floor. She has also recently been on a run of D&V plus a stinking cold so is waking a lot and getting up for the day at 3am. Poor DH is on his own dealing with that one as I have been in hospital for most of the last 9 weeks with pregnancy complications. Just awaiting arrival of mini stitch now to add to the fun.

dreaming and elph aaaarrrrgh. My deepest sympathies. Both of my two have always timed D&V with Christmas Day. I have spent two Christmas mornings in A&E because of it. I hope that it is the 48 hour one that dd2 had recently and it moves along quickly. Do not worry about bottles dreaming during a D&V if they regress it is fine, you are in survival mode, f* it!

Big and survival packs of and all round xxx

Oh well stitch, I suppose the longer cooked the better?

Not d&v here, just the 'usual' vomiting ramped up a bit through a cold..

Crap, screaming, I'm off

Gosh. I lose the thread for a bit and it all goes exciting. Hope we have good news stitch.

Hello Br welcome to the non-sleeper posse.

Went to dd's nursery carol concert today. Almost died of cute overload :o

Wow. Thank you very much for that fabulously thorough briefing dreaming and hello to everybody else too. Your twins sound, um, challenging. I do like the fairy tale aspect to having a good one and a bad one, though. Please tell me one's dark and swarthy and one's blonde and angelic?

stitch I do hope you're at home with happy news to pass on now?

Well, all up at 5.10 here with requests for present opening and sausage rolls. I met him halfway on the sausage rolls. It's now , ooh, 8.20 and DP is already mincing stuffing, boiling a ham and defrosting a crispy duck so there are some benefits to being up at evil child o'clock. I had 3, yes 3, glasses of wine last night so I feel like decidedly ropey. And DS1 looks weird to me so i wouldn't be at all surprised if we get some sort of Christmas lurge here too. And we have no telly because he killed it with a water spray 3 weeks ago AND the oven's on the blink.

Happy Knackered Christmas everybody!!!

Merry Christmas everyone! Loves you guys :o

Merry Christmas everyone :). Hope you are full to bursting with turkey and trimmings.

Mason Oliver was born on Monday at 9.57am weighing 2.9kg at 34+5 weeks. I saw him delivered but then due to complications with my placenta they proceeded to hysterectomy and put me under general anaesthetic. DH looked after Mason until I came out of theatre at 1pm. Mason is doing well and breastfeeding :). I lost 7 pints of blood, my uterus and have a minor bladder injury, sore but on the mend in high dependency unit. They have been excellent here, really taking care of me. I even had the Queen's own gynacologist (who delivered Prince George) doing the surgery on my bladder as he happened to be passing and scrubbed in!

Oh my god Stitch! What a drama! I suppose after producing three lovely, healthy babies, your uterus decided to call it a day. To you for your new son, and all the best for a speedy recovery. I bed Mason's way better looking than some Royal baby who got coughed out by his skinny mum who was home with her nannies the following day

I hope everyone had a slightly less eventful Christmas. I don't want to complain that we got so much stuff, but JAYSUS, WE GOT SO MUCH STUFF. Seriously, 2.5 hours solid of opening presents and we only have a teeny family (me, DH, his mum and dad, plus my mum are all only children so it's not like there's loads of extended family to account for the massive haul). DS was outrageously cute, as it was the first time he 'got' present opening and he went into baby-raptures over some of his presents. He also took to the floor and busted a few moves for everyone after unwrapping a particularly musical toy. Didn't nap all day, mind, but was none the worse for it and took about six years to fall asleep last night. You know that time I said on here that him going to sleep initially has never been an issue? Yeah, well I broke the first rule of sleep club there and it's been an issue ever since

And since stopping BFing, my pre-DS intractable insomnia has returned, just to turn a molehill of bullshit into a mountain I've been awake for two hours or more most nights for the past couple of weeks, usually kicked off by DS waking up around 2:30, then compounded by him deciding 5:30 is a reasonable wake-up time. Fates do not require me to sleep, ever, obviously. Self-pitying whinge over.

Happy Boxing Day!

Stitch congrats on the birth of Mason,how is he doing?Is he in SCBU? Sorry to hear you've had so many complications. Have you got any family or friends nearby to give you and your DH a hand?Wishing you speedy recovery and please stay in the hospital for as long as they want you there.

Elphaba glad you got a nice Christmas,shit about insomnia though my pregnancy one is here sometimes

Hope everybody had a nice time.

Gosh stitch, all sounds a bit scary. Hope littlest stich mason is all well and happy. I am sure he is a darling. Take care of yourself.

Hello all, thanks for your well wishes. Hope you enjoyed Christmas and are slowly getting back to normality. Christmas, lovely as it is, messes up the routine and generates havoc.

I came home on Friday with Mason. He didn't have to go to SCBU and is gaining weight well. I am sore, but ok considering. Just feeling very lucky to be at home with my kids, nearly didn't make it through surgery.

DH is exhausted as dd2 (stitch) has been ill. Last night was the first night he got more than 3 hours for the last 5 days. He took her to paediatric A&E OOH on Boxing Day and got anti-B's which are thankfully kicking in.

Elph the image of minielph busting his moves made me . Glad you had a good Christmas even if sleep is in short supply.

Happy New year everyone!

Sorry I've not posted to say well.done on the (incredibly traumatic sounding) birth of Mason stitch . Great weight for his gestation, you did well. I can imagine you're feeling very lucky and a bit freaked out. What a scary delivery. Glad you're at home, and hope stitch is much better by now so your Dh gets a rest and you're not worrying.

elph . Bad news indeed. Maybe repeating "sleep is
for the weak" through gritted teeth is the only answer for now :( . Do you have a scan date, or booking in date yet? (Those denied a 4th baby for now must live vicariously through others y'know, I'm loving all the new arrivals and soon to be arriving on here!) .

A quick whinge from me, natch. The 'good' twin has stopped sleeping. Wants to sleep with me. Up 2-4 x night. Tried sleeping with both- not working. Spent 3:45-5:15 on his floor trying to get him back to sleep last night. Finally succeeded. Hurray. Get into bed- well, Dt the terrible's single bed. Dt the T wakes up (in my bed, with my husband...) and demands me.... Ffs. Yawn. Two in April. Will they sleep when they're two?!

Anyway, all those not upduffed drink some.wine and pretend we won't be seeing midnight not through our own choice.

Happy New year everyone!

Sorry I've not posted to say well.done on the (incredibly traumatic sounding) birth of Mason stitch . Great weight for his gestation, you did well. I can imagine you're feeling very lucky and a bit freaked out. What a scary delivery. Glad you're at home, and hope stitch is much better by now so your Dh gets a rest and you're not worrying.

elph . Bad news indeed. Maybe repeating "sleep is
for the weak" through gritted teeth is the only answer for now :( . Do you have a scan date, or booking in date yet? (Those denied a 4th baby for now must live vicariously through others y'know, I'm loving all the new arrivals and soon to be arriving on here!) .

A quick whinge from me, natch. The 'good' twin has stopped sleeping. Wants to sleep with me. Up 2-4 x night. Tried sleeping with both- not working. Spent 3:45-5:15 on his floor trying to get him back to sleep last night. Finally succeeded. Hurray. Get into bed- well, Dt the terrible's single bed. Dt the T wakes up (in my bed, with my husband...) and demands me.... Ffs. Yawn. Two in April. Will they sleep when they're two?!

Anyway, all those not upduffed drink some.wine and pretend we won't be seeing midnight not through our own choice.

Happy New Year everyone :)

Dreaming :( It sounds like 1 step forward then 3 back.

Well I am officially back in the no sleep club. Stitch a lot better but didn't go to bed until nearly midnight last night. Mini-stitch cluster fed and pooed continously from 3.30-5.30am. Dd1 woke up and got into my bed at 5.30am and kept trying to talk to me, until ignored her. Then stitch was up at 7am. I am hoping this is just a period of adjustment to me being back home and once stitch is fully better that better sleep will prevail.

Happy new year!

Glad you are home and all in good health stitch, even if you aren't getting any sleep again.

We were all in bed by about 10:30 last night as dd woke at 9 and would not settle without me there. Everytime I tried to sneak out she blooming woke up again. In the end we just gave in and all went to bed.

On the bright side I can now call dp my dh as we were married all official and propper yesterday. It was lovely, just me, dh, dd and 2 lovely friends. My dream wedding :o

Congratulations Hear, glad you got the wedding you wanted :)

Congratulations Hear!

Hurrah hear congratulations!

Congrats Hear, what a start of the year! :)

Dreaming any ideas what triggered DT not Angelic to ditch his sleeping pattern?

Stitch how are you feeling?

Happy New Year everybody!

Thanks everyone! Just have to till the parents now :o

Tell the parents?! Are they going to be miffed at being left out?

Well, DH is taking me away for the night on Friday for a birthday surprise in an undisclosed location on Saturday. First night I'll ever have spent apart from DS Since the grandparents are coming to look after him for the night, and will not co-sleep, I've been trying to get him sleeping in his cot. Am I winning? Am I heck. A week now of CC and, as usual, it's not working. He gets hysterical when he wakes up to find me not there, I calm him down to a state where he'll lie down quietly, wait a few seconds, leave the room, and the second he hears a floor board creak he's on his feet and wailing again. I leave him for two minutes, repeat the whole settling process again, then leave for three minutes, and so on. On the upside, he's sleeping slightly longer stretches because the screaming is obviously wearing him out. On the downside, he's getting no easier to settle and the number of wake ups aren't reducing after five days. Who are these people who have sleeping children forevermore after three nights of this hell?? I'm sure they're invented by MN to make me feel incompetent.

I hope I don't come home to a toddler smothered by his exhausted grandparents on Saturday

we are a little concerned dh's mum might not be too pleased. I think she would have loved a big wedding, but tough poo. Just told mine and they are thrilled, which was nice :o

You know he will sleep like an angel while you are away elph . don't stress about it. If he does cry at 3am then they will do what anyone else would do and take him into bed whatever they may say now. Besides, they only have to do it for one night so its not the same as for you. just have a super amazing night off. I am rather jealous :o

elph I think they'll do what they need to do to calm him. Enjoy it I say!

Dt the not so Angelic slept through last night, hurrah! Two nights of pain on his floor and he's given in. He needs reassurance, and I'd NEVER leave him to cry as he's not that sort of boy, but if I did he'd give up in three nights I think elph. He's so sensitive to feelings/ being left out/ being in trouble etc though it'd break him to feel left. Unlike his brother. I'd leave him if not for vomit-ville. He's lovely too, but totally different personality.

Officially taken down the travel cot and given up any pretense Dt the Terrible sleeps in a cot. Even ordered him some dinosaur covers for the boxroom bed his bed. Not helped much, but is a bit better in there. Much better than a cot actually.

^ because i can kir

Can lie with him and he goes to sleep I mean, not any miracle sleeping through