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Misery Loves Company...nope. Still not sleeping.

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ElphabaTheGreen · 13/02/2015 14:32

Long-term sleep deprivation getting you down?

Join us here for Brew Brew Brew and plenty of sympathy.

Ride the mo-fo out or something must be done - the choice is yours.

And remember the First Rule of Sleep Club - do not mention that things are going well or you will PAY.

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Ruralrunner · 25/02/2015 03:23

Talking books are a great idea!

Currently on couch with DS, rocking him to soothe him. Actually, maybe the rocking is to soothe me...

scottygirl5 · 25/02/2015 08:17

Does 5 minutes count as a nap? Confused

AttitudeOfGratitude · 25/02/2015 08:28

scotty I think that counts as a long blink! Brew for you.

Not bad here except for him being awake from 3:35-4:50 with me trying to get him back to sleep. After that he slept until 7 which is late for him.

Ruralrunner · 25/02/2015 08:35

Thanks chocolate! Will have a Google...

scottygirl5 · 25/02/2015 11:57

Ooh attitude that doesn't sound fun, I hate big middle of the night wakings. How are you Ann fans getting on in general?

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ElphabaTheGreen · 25/02/2015 12:11

Only just did night two last night and he's stuck to her script so far. You don't really get massive immediate changes with Ann's approach, so nothing to report yet, but I am hopeful Smile

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LionsDontWeaveLentils · 25/02/2015 14:10

It's particularly annoying elph as she was happily going to bed for him for months and months. We were alternating nights for anges. It just all went a bit tits up when she had her last cold and its now been a week since she did anything apart from scream at him for his bedtime nights.

Why is it that just when you have it sorted they go and muck everything about Angry

Glad Ann is going well for you :)

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ElphabaTheGreen · 25/02/2015 14:48

DS1 is hit and miss about going to bed for DH. We have found, however, that if DH tells DS1 that I can't put him to bed because I'm sick, he's quite understanding. I'm getting sick quite a bit ATM Grin

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AttitudeOfGratitude · 25/02/2015 16:09

scotty we just started yesterday and are working on foundations, we won't start any sleep work proper for another week or two. He's going through a better phase over the last several days with only a couple of wakes, usually not as long as last night. Nap is still only about 50 mins though sadly.

Did you get a better nap today?

scottygirl5 · 25/02/2015 17:29

I bet it feels great just to be making a start and 'doing' something. We had that 5 min one, an hour, two half hours and a 6 min one . I think I'll find work on naps even better than night work!

AttitudeOfGratitude · 25/02/2015 19:11

It does and I am hopeful but of course we have to implement everything and I'm dreading the bit where we have to try and break the feeding to sleep.

That's a lot of naps! Everything I've read says naps are more difficult to sort out than night sleep.

RaspberryBlonde · 25/02/2015 19:43

Having had a recent week of good nights (don't tell any one but she slept from 8 until 530 one night), we are now back in a less good phase. Currently have screaming at bedtime for both me and DH; waking at least three times a night and a nice hour of crying from 230 this morning thrown in for good measure! No idea what's causing it, she is over the weekend bug, calpol makes no difference and she just constantly asks for milk. I think she's finding the days long at the childminder's, generally only sleeping an hour at lunch.

Attitude, we did signing classes for six months until she was just one, this is the first thing she has picked up, although she has always been very vocal. Will be interesting to see if she starts using any more now.

Scotty, I call those micro naps, we had them a lot too, although not sure five minutes qualifies as that. Maybe a nano nap?

AttitudeOfGratitude · 25/02/2015 20:11

Raspberry it's so frustrating when you know they can do it and they're inconsistent isn't it? Is she in the middle of a wonder weeks leap period perhaps? I hope these bedtime shenanigans stop as suddenly as they started.

Ds has cut down his bf but still wanting it a bit more frequently than before. In the last couple of days he's started to pull my top down when he's finished. It cracks me up Grin

RaspberryBlonde · 25/02/2015 22:44

I have lost track of wonder weeks as she's got older, could be though. She has suddenly 'got' walking and a couple of new words in the last couple of weeks so think there is probably quite a lot happening for her...agree some consistency would be lovely. Oddly she has also just started the pulling down my top thing! Think your DS Is quite close in age though, Attitude, he's thirteen months I think?

AttitudeOfGratitude · 26/02/2015 08:18

Yes he's 13 months, not walking yet. Last night similar to the night before but this time thankfully only awake for 45 mins. Hope everyone had a good night.

scottygirl5 · 26/02/2015 08:27

attitude and raspberry there's a week 55 wonder week, and they do tend to last a couple of weeks don't they? Has made me think our current nap hell might be wonder week related, there's one at 26 weeks which will be us this weekend. Currently feeding DD2 to sleep in the dark on my bed while poor DD1 watches peter rabbit and alphablocks with the sound off beside us, naps suck!

AttitudeOfGratitude · 26/02/2015 09:20

Scotty we hit the 59 week leap in 10 days according to the app (ds was early), always such fun Hmm

I hope you get more than 5 mins this morning. Ds also asleep, he was whinging/crying which isn't like him and seemed like he just wanted to sleep. Will stick to 30m and hope he'll sleep this afternoon too. He didn't on Tues after having a late-ish morning nap while we were trying to talk to Ann the only way to keep him quiet

scottygirl5 · 26/02/2015 09:28

We got 25 mins but she's still tired and has been whinging since. Wondering if it's inappropriate to drag my 3 year old out in the rain to get DD2 to have another nap...DD2 doesn't nap in the cot Sad

AttitudeOfGratitude · 26/02/2015 09:32

3 year olds love puddles don't they? Maybe see what she thinks. It must be so tough when you have an older one too. Roll on summer & the good weather. Of course all their sleeping problems will be sorted by then Wink

scottygirl5 · 26/02/2015 10:55

Luckily my parents turned up and my dad went straight out with DD2 in the buggy. Mum with DD1 so going to catch up on chores/eat chocolate/MN! I'm with you, all our sleep problems will be over by then! Grin

AttitudeOfGratitude · 26/02/2015 12:51

That's brilliant. Thank goodness for parents Grin

scottygirl5 · 26/02/2015 13:52

He managed to get her to sleep 1.5 hours!! She never does that for me Confused.

AttitudeOfGratitude · 26/02/2015 13:58

He obviously has the magic touch! Just walked ds for 40m in the rain and no nap. Had to feed him to sleep when we got back. No more morning naps for him unless he wakes at 5 something and has it very early. Just too difficult to get him to sleep in the afternoon now if he's slept in the morning.

scottygirl5 · 26/02/2015 14:04

How frustrating! That period of dropping from 2 to 1 naps is a PITA.

AttitudeOfGratitude · 26/02/2015 20:12

He has had a temperature all day and we have a new tooth. So far have been unable to put him down in the cot! Just given a dose of ibuprofen so hopefully will be able to eat dinner at some point.