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!

Shhh.... He would never know :o

Just had a couple if nights at Mil's. Dd barely napped and ate tons of cake. She's a bit of a wreck.

Just did a full, and very busy, day of work after DS decided 3:30am was wake up time.

WANT. TO. DIE.

That's shit elph, and upduffed too. No.wonder you want to die :(

It's not so great here either. Dd having lots of nightmares. Dt the Definitely Not Angelic not sleeping well. Dt the Terrible performing averagely but the combination is killing me. At least I'm not pregnant.

That's shit elph, and upduffed too. No.wonder you want to die :(

It's not so great here either. Dd having lots of nightmares. Dt the Definitely Not Angelic not sleeping well. Dt the Terrible performing averagely but the combination is killing me. At least I'm not pregnant.

Random post to stop this from dropping off Threads I'm On...

Gosh, I was wondering where everyone had got to.

Dd managed to trip over at nursery on Thursday and bash her face on a shelf. Nothing serious but lots of bruising and swelling round her nose and mouth. Poor little sausage. Sleep is shit of course and she is only going to bed for me. Arrgghh

I can't stop arguing with Dh . I'm blaming the tiredness. Dt2 is mixing some sleep throughs with awful nights. Dt 1 is doing his usual, with evening vomiting for good measure.

Why won't this thread add to my 'threads I'm watching' list?! Thought I'd lost you again.

Your poor dd hear face bruising always looks so sore.

DS has given me the stinking cold that was waking him hourly last week. So what with constant nausea, exhaustion, chills, headache, throat like a parrot cage and clingy lump of a toddler, I think I could be forgiven for almost weeping with relief when I got an eleventh hour text today telling me that toddler swimming was cancelled because some blessed, blessed little angel in an earlier class had shat in the pool. DH took him for a stroll into town and to the playground instead while I had blissful sleep. I'm wide awake now as a result, with a snoring little boy next to me with fists full of my hair. He should be due a wake up just after I've finally dropped off...

Argh! Gods teeth, dds sleep is just awful at the moment. She has decided that only I can put her to bed and throws a massive tantrum if dh tries. She then keeps having nightmares and waking up in a state which means she won't settle again for ages. I'm a wreck...and I'm not even pregnant.

I've taken a couple of days of annual leave to get some much-neglected housework and batch cooking done. After dropping DS off at nursery this morning, I seem to have accidentally fallen back into bed and slept until 1pm. Jeez, I feel better for it though...

Sounds like you needed it elph. housework smousework, I say...or something :o

Can I ask what yours are like when they wake up? DS is always miserable. Be it nap or waking up for the day, he'll come to, then wail for ages. He's done this pretty much since he was born and it's getting worse the older he gets and I'm worn. Naturally, he doesn't do it after naps at nursery

Dd is usually okish in the morning but horrid after her nap. The thing is I am also horrid when I wake up after a nap. Dh says its like waking a bear, you have to poke we with a long stick and run. So I sort of figured this is normal post nap strop from dd. I tend to just make sure I allow her lots of time to wake up slowly, 15 mins is minimum cuddle time, if she want to doze for a bit I'll leave her to it and just gently encourage awakeness by opening curtains and stomping around a bit.

If Dt2 wakes naturally he's fine. Dt1 is a horror most of the time but ok sometimes .usually fairly cheerful first thing in the morning.

I think I'm going to resign from the shit that is my job. Wish I was more decisive though, I keep wondering "what if..." About future jobs, pension etc. Sigh. Anyway, I'm so knackered I think it'd be better for now. Like three small children 24/7 will be easier but y'know... We are actually discussing a fourth too.

Forget the housework elph, pregnancy is hard, sadly the housework will keep waiting for you...!

hear, I send tea and sympathy, I'm on my knees with crap sleep from both atm.

See these bald patches? That's me tearing my hair out over the rage-bucket that is my DS. In addition to being a foul, clinging horror in the morning unless he is promptly placed in front of Cbeebies with toast and a banana (yep, TV as pacifier - yet another 'fail' added to my list of things I was NEVER going to do as a parent), he has decided that getting dressed is the absolute antichrist. He goes absolutely purple with fury and roars until he nearly retches, pulling off everything he possibly can as soon as DH or I can pin him down long enough to get it on him. He kicks, and bucks and flails and kicks and pinches and rages. It's absolutely insane and has really only started in earnest in the past week. It wound DH up so much the other morning he left the room and shut the door on DS until the screaming had stopped, which took several minutes.

And his sleep remains shit.

Honestly, he had better be the most placid, well-adjusted and obedient adolescent to make up for all this.

Sorry you are having such a hard time but I have to say, thank heavens its not just my dd hitting some sort of megga rage phase. She had a 40 minute screaming tantrum the other day because I brought her home from nursery and offered her some dinner (shock horror). She's not even 2 and I am already past the stage of feeling even a bit embarrassed when she flings herself on the floor in the supermarket because I won't let her eat the carrots.

Oh, and I say pah to tv worrying. I said dd wouldn't watch any TV at all. In fact we don't even have a flipping TV and she still manages to watch too much. I can't be bothered to stress about it anymore.

Well that's a relief. Today's uber-strop involved his refusal to hold DH's hand to walk into nursery. He took off by himself and fell headlong into the largest, deepest puddle available. I'm hoping he's going to grasp the concept of 'karma' if those sorts of things keep happening.

My mum took dd to the shops and said that apparently she got quite upset because she wanted to push the trolley herself Without anyone's help... While she was sitting in it. Needless to say it didn't go far :o

Don't mention the dressing rocks in corner

Yes elph, this means your teenage dd will be so angelic you'll never, ever want him to leave home. Same for your dd hear and definitely Dt the Terrible. He becomes incandescent with rage at being taken out of the bath. Every night.... Oh, and now, the fury over not getting to sit in dd's tripp trapp style seat, that Dt2 joins in with, and the physical scuffles and fights 3x daily over it mean I am probably going to buy two more Babydan ones similar at £50 a pop from kiddicare... I have two IKEA antilops and two booster seats. R I D I C U L O U S.

Elph wonders aloud how Stitch is doing...

ummmm.... still wondering. Hope she is OK.

I am here, the walking zombie ...

Dd1 had delayed concussion from a head injury at school last week and has been waking in the night. Stitch has yet another cold, refusing to go to bed at nap and bedtime, sometimes not sleeping until 11pm then waking in the night too, sometimes taking an hour to re-settle. Spectacular tantrums and food refusal here, gotta love the terrible twos Mini-stitch is cluster feeding in the evening and feeding two hourly the rest of the time.

I think survival is the name of the game.

Will read through and catch up now.

Oh man stitch, tough times... Hang on in there! like there's any other option

Yikes, more fighting... Laters