SLEEP REGRESSION part 2...Roll up, roll up folks! Swap tales of woe, ideas, enjoy solidarity and get support here

[cakebaby]

Thought I'd start a new thread as I couldn't see another one yet (will get HQ to delete if already up and running).

Tis good to talk.....

Sorry to see you back tired
I think they're all conspiring together, probably tweeting and Facebooking about plans for each night
I have really honestly given up on theories, different approaches, tactics etc -have just resigned myself to waiting it out

Thanks for the replies. Weirdly, last night she only woke up at 2.30 for a feed then again at 5.40, but she went straight back to sleep until 8. Very odd! I'm not holding my breath thinking she's suddenly going to go back to being a good sleeper again. Will report back in the morning...

Oh tired I feel gutted for you as I also thought you had cracked it!!! I feel sorry for all us old timers & new joiners alike it really is draining & as someone posted previously is really taking away lots of the pleasure that should come with having a baby!!

Ds went to bed fine tonight but has been grouchy all evening, no apparent reason I would say it's just because he is a fella but there's plenty on her with dd's that are pretty difficult as well by the sounds of things!!

Anyone else up? Been sat upright with poorly, coughing, snotty ds asleep on me since 315. Bored now.

I'm up!! My ds gives me the 4.30 morning wake up call remember!!

In a way I want to just get up now & have played the dream show light thing about 6 times already but it's the principle of the thing I'm doing everything the books say so he should be sleeping 7-7 haha as if the books really "know" anything!! A cuppa would be nice, but don't want to wake poor ds1 up this early! Been told I will laugh about all this one day- it's certainly not very funny right now!!

Also cake in a way I cope better when ds is poorly as i understand there is a reason & he is very pitiful when he is poorly!!

Sorry boo I didn't mean to post & run. Ds woke & we had a round of calpol, cough, sick. It's like rock, paper, scissors except a bit more messy

I feel so helpless when he's ill.

Hey cakebaby is your lo any better tonight??

boo hmm, not sure..been alternating from happy to hideous all day, nods off at the drop of a hat...in pushchair, car, on sofa next to anyone me for 5 mins. He's not right but maybe a little better than yesterday when he just looked bloody miserable all day.

Bed at 7, woke twice, now in bed with me as I'm soft & will do anything for a quiet life he's got a drippy nose which is upsetting him

See you at 430?

My day didn't get much better. I spent an unhappy hour scrubbing orange sick off the carpet after ds had mango yoghurt for breakfast, whilst dh had a lovely lie in. Again. Still, not like I've been up every night for the last 8 months....resentment is brewing.....

Poor LO Cakeb I dread DS getting poorly, I'll be such a wreck. I hope he's a bit better tonight .
Boo 4.30 is shocking, I thought 5.30 was bad and at least DS doesn't do that every day.
Emma you're back at work now aren't you? Plenty of needed.
DS has managed to go to bed and NOT wake up after 30 minutes 3 nights in a row! Does this mean we've maybe, possibly, fingers crossed, hopefully resolved that one for now? Wake ups are still anything from 3 hourly to 1 hourly, but I'm trying to focus on the positives....

Sick bug complete with orange sick here today as well
Dd hasn't kept anything down except bm

Thank you mirrhi great progress for you! FX that bit is sorted now. Feel like we're going backwards here but telling myself its just to get through this nasty cold. Sat up holding a snoring ds this morning at stupid o'clock wondering if it was a ridiculous thing to do or whether most parents have done it at some point.

Oh cake mango yoghurt too? Ds can't even keep bm down. Think its the coughing triggering gag reflex in an immature system. Also he has a totally blocked up nose despite snufflebabe/saline spray etc, so when he feeds he's gasping in air too causing trapped wind & vom thereafter. Sigh. Projectile vom every night before bed too. Just to ensure wide awake at bedtime... Will I ever get an evening to myself, a full nights kip or a lie in again? One would be nice, all 3 better!

It was actually mango and banana purée!
I promise you will get all 3 again but it may not be for a while yet...it will come though. Your ds sounds like he has caught all the germs going, poor thing. Wierdly do you find you tolerate the crap sleep more when they are ill? I know I do.
8 weeks until back at work too gah..

Why why why is it that Sunday night, when my parents are here to help out and I could have slept all day Monday if I needed to, he slept from 8pm until 8am and then Monday night, when I have to work today and drive from Warwickshire to London to a meeting, he decides to wake at 1am, 3am, 4am and get up for the day at 5:30am. DH got up with him so I could have another hour, but I lay awake for most of it worrying about how tired I am.

we've been on a 2 hour schedule recently... am just feeding as she's still got diarrhoea. last day of antibs today phew. boo I agree in a way I feel less stressed if she's sick as I just feed and cuddle to sleep without worrying about habits etc.

Margot that is frustrating but we are all green with envy that you ever get anywhere near a full night. I guess you should just go to bed early and make the most of the good nights.

Artemis so sorry things have got worse again after all your work too

Emma shit. I thought at least one person had left this thread

courage, mes braves

Sending massive sympathies to all of you with poorly babies. Illness is such a bugger and even more exhausting. We've yet to experience the joys of D&V with DD2.

Been away for the weekend at my parents. DD2 was in a travel cot. Woke once each night and settled back in the cot both nights. Couldn't believe it. No co-sleeping at all. Me and DH actually slept all night in the same bed.

And then, last night bed at 7pm and didn't wake until 5.30am! Had a massive feed and conked out until 7am.

I know it's just a phase, but was actually lovely to wake up beside DH!

miss he's been reading your diary

keep hope things improve soon

tired ...bah... Are we the longest serving prisoners?

soup wow huge progress! Congrats

Horrid night again, still poorly, breaking every damned rule now. Not that there were many left to break. Slept on me early hours and then again at nap this morning, refused lunch, now asleep in pushchair in garden for 2nd day running.....and.....ye gods.....I'm rocking it. As if we don't have enough bad habits already.

Much sympathy to everyone with poorly babies, I hope they all start feeling better soon.

I know I should be happy that he is capable of sleeping through and I am trying to be, I know it sounds so ungrateful but going to work on a few hours of broken sleep is making me physically ill. We have a few good nights then it's right back to half hourly waking and I'm not doing anything differently so I can't figure out what I am doing right, or wrong.

Anyway, enough moaning from me. I'm working from home for the next few days in between taking DS to groups which we both enjoy. Focussing on the positives.

soup that is brilliant! Here's hoping it's the start of a new era. It also gives me hope that our summer holiday and 2 weeks in a travel cot may not necessarily make things even worse.

miss I sympathize, its the unpredictability I find most disconcerting.

Eurgh, I have the cold too now. Poor ds has upchucked his calpol, twice, is hot and poorly. Three wake ups since 715. He's now asleep on front with a runny nose and his gob open tough night ahead I feel....

How did you get on last night cake?

Two nights of just one wake up again here I've given up working out whether anything during the days effects the night times sleep!! Still up around 5ish but 5 hours undisturbed sleep is nice long may it continue!!

Lazy today as ds1 at nursery all day, ds2 is playing happily (at the moment) I'm starting to think I can survive having this baby!!!

Great news boo

We had a shocker, ended up at ooh. Back later

I mean your news is great. Obvs. So so so tired