Support thread for the sleep-deprived

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And seeing how it just took me five attempts to type support correctly, I think I need this!

Oh dear! How bad is it?

Can I be on here?

DD (13 months) has slept through on a very small amount of occasions. I am loathe to do controlled crying etc and DH is very good, but it's not the same as proper sleep. I always feel as if I could fall asleep (and given the chance, will). Manage to contain myself at work but feel I need sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.

I have not had a full night's sleep for two and a half years. Can I join this thread please?

Are we all too tired to add to this thread? [bags under eyes emoticon]

See here for the details

Can we have a [yawn] emoticon, d'ya think?!

or even symbol for an "it's only a phase, it's only a phase" mantra

FrannyandZoey has a wonderful quote about needs & habits on the "right extended bfers.." thread (sorry don't know how to link to it )

She posted it Tue 24 Oct 8:10:18 AM

Hi, can i join in, i hav'nt had a nights sleep in almost 3 years, dd1 (2.8) wakes in the night, dd2 (7 months) never sleeps , takes hours to get her to sleep and then she only sleeps for an hour at a time.

I work part time but it feels like full time as im so tierd.

I would do anything for a nights sleep.

Count me in too, if indeed we can all still count. No proper sleep for 2 1/2 years. I'm going back to work full time in Jan and I'm crapping it already at how tired I'm going to be...

O.M.G! 2 1/5 and 3 years!!! ....and I think I'm dying after only 9 months I think I may be on the wrong thread - I've not suffered enough!!

Count me in! What's worse is that DD2 started out sooo well and I got all smug. Bloody knackered now and have turned into horrible shouty mummy. Why am I not in bed????

Hey Marne drop by the March post natal thread for a whinge too!

dd2 slept through the night for about 1 month when she was 6m old. Now she wakes at least once a night so our sleep is always broken. She was 1 last week. It seems ridiculous that it should have such an effect but on a bad day the simplest tasks seem impossible and it's all due to not having a good night's sleep.

Dh rang me last week to say he had to stay late at work so I'd have to bath the kids and put them to bed. I felt like crying. Then I looked at them both and thought 'they don't look that dirty' !! but i just couldn't face it - how pathetic is that?!

Moomin, it makes it so much worse when you know they can sleep through eh? DD2 has gone for 12 hours on a couple of occasions but now just does most of her feeding at night.
BTW don't fret about the bath - my two get about 3 a week! As kids we were bathed on Sundays and we all survived.

dd2 has just started feeding herself though and as I thought that, she was currently wearing dried avocado in her hair! But ,hey, who was going to see if apart from me?

Makes it doubly hard that dd1 was and still is an excellent sleeper from 7 weeks old - she's now 5. Dd2 goes to bed really nicely and sleeps through til anything from 2 to 5am. I let dh have a lie-in last night and he also slept through her waking as he'd had his vasectomy in the day and was knocked out on painkillers. Whej he woke up he said he'd had his first feature-length dream for ages, without interruptions! - the dreaming i mean, not the snip!

Dragging this one up again as I'm just bloody sick of getting up to ds2 - at 12 weeks he was sleeping like an angel, just up once a night, now he's up every 2 hours come hell or high water at 17 weeks!! Yawn yawn yawn... Am starting to have sleep fantasies again - when ds1 was small my DH asked what I wanted for Christmas and I said (well, screamed) '24 HOURS ON MY OWN IN A DARK ROOM!!!!'

How are y'all doing?

hello - please can i join? DS 21 weeks and still waking once or twice per night. Back to work in four weeks - how will i cope sob - slept really badly throughout pg too ... would kill for a night's sleep ...