'Sleep is for the Weak' for anyone with August/Sep 06 DC's

[justJAM]

GM, Cruise and anyone else with LO's born around August/September 06' - this is a support thread for when you have no clue as to why your LO is doing the exact opposite to what they were doing last week and when you are thinking WTF????
Post on here and we shall all compare notes and comfort each other!!

[PinkTulips]

lol.... he fell asleep in my arms feding for a nap, i put him in his cot, he woke up after 5 mins (dd screamed so not really his fault), then wouldbn't go bavck down, just had to sit on the couch with him asleep in my arms for 30 mins and now he's awake again and ready to go.... he's like the faffing energiser bunny!

[cruisemum1]

lo soundly sleeping. No! Not in his cot. In his buggy. We had to brave the rain in the end - he was so knackered after his 30mins this morning that he needed to sleep. He didn't fancy the cot the 2nd time round today so, out we went. I am soaked . Anyway.........
kbaby - was the 3:30am crying from you or lo?!
Pinktulips - wierd isn't it. It is just one thing after another, teeth, growth spurts,colds. grrrrrrr
Jessa - stay with us - you have recent experience of 4 month olds - we need you! My dd is 9 and my memories of her babyhood are fuzzy and distorted
Ginger - Ironic isn't it that the bad night/day sleeps are so linked. if I had stayed awake all night I would sleep ALL DAY LONG! Could you perhaps spend a couple of days devoted to establishing good daytime sleeps? I am gonna try to do that this week/next week.
booty - Maybe you could always start your lo's days off at, say, 7/8am. That way there is consistency rather than sometimes 10ish? Just a thought
JustJam - re: the daytime feeds. These seem to get better as the day wears on. i.e. he is not particulary hungry in the morning but gets progressively hungrier for his feeds throughout the day (they are 3 hourly and bf). Hope you chilled out during your retail therapy session
Oh the joys of motherhood......

[Jessajam]

Thanks for invite cruisemum1 but may not be of much help, as (irony of ironies) at 4 months ds slept like a beauty !

Generally it's all a phase and will last a week or two max. Just need to balance out not getting into awful habits that could turn the phase into a 'problem' with actually surviving the phase ( ie sometimes you just HAVE to give them extra milk/co-sleep/bring them back downstairs to get them to sleep/save your sanity)

Am currently failing at this, needless to say!!

[neilsmum]

hello boobylicious, our children are born on the same day!!
last night was alright for us, slept at 7.30, woke up at 10.30, fed and then woke up at 5.00 and went back to sleep immediately. for the last 4 days, has been waking up at 4.00 am wanting tp play. hope this good phase continues!

[gingerninja]

afternoon everyone, I schleped about in the rain this morning as well Cruise. She's now asleep on the sofa so I've got a cuppa tea and oh, probably 30 minutes to myself.

I've got friends that slept LO in the cot during the day from the begining and they'll only sleep in the cot now which makes it really difficult to do anything so that's my excuse for not using it in the day

Quite depressed to hear about Jessajam experiencing these problems at 17 months. [Shall ignore, pretend it doesn't happen and remind myself that weening will perform miracles for LO sleep]

JustJam is jessa any relation?

Kbaby, think we've been on the same threads before regarding non sleeping offspring. See, you're also dispelling the myth that I support regarding formula fed babies sleeping better. I'd vainly hoped that at 6 months when I start mix feeding she'll sleep better. Oh why oh why don't they sleep?

Cruise just might do that. Let me know how you get on.

Neilsmum

She's awake ahhhhhh 20 minutes and she's grumpy.

[dressedupnowheretogo]

weve just had a three hour sllep so who knows wat'll happen tonight

[cruisemum1]

booby - presume you mean a sleep!

[dressedupnowheretogo]

yep thats six months of un interruppted sleep for you

[olivo]

hello - another august 06 dd here, who 'doesnt seem to need her sleep" . she goes down well but only sleeps for 3 to 4 hours in one go. and now i'm starting to suffer from insomnia ... !!
good to know we're not alone....

[kbaby]

cruisemum1- from ds initially but it wasn?t long b4 I felt like it too.
Gingerninja- were still mixed feeding mind but hes also on solids and still not sleeping!


ds's naps today have been 1hr on the settee where i think he was too warm hence the time of his nap and this afternoon another hr while i do mumsnetting. got a stiff shoulder now though from holding him.

[justJAM]

hello all, DD has napped well today, tried that wake to sleep malarky and it worked!!!!!!!! DD has had 3 naps 1.45 hr, 1.5 hr and 1hr and she went down for each nap without a grizzle, about bloomin time, I've only been working on this napping in cot thing for 4 weeks!!! but at least it is starting to pay off...now just hope DD stops this waking in the night gig she's got going on

I blame myself - shouldn't of been so chuffed she was sleeping through at 9 weeks, I will never take her sleeping well for granted again....hope you have all had a good day

Cruise - when I started the whole napping in cot thing, like your DS DD would do it for one nap then not the next, I took it v slowly for the first week or two so don't give up, you know he can do it

[NbgsYellowFeathers]

OMG cant believe this thread lol
Ds's sleep has become mad over the last few weeks and he was a delightful all nighter before
I was up from midnight last night so god knows what tonight holds for me.
However I have goven him some banana and porridge today. Whether that will make a difference, I dont know.

August 06er btw

[justJAM]

welcome nbgs!!!

[NbgsYellowFeathers]

I just want to say this because it made me have a good think at an unearthly hour this morning.
When you are up in the middle of the night with your baby, looking at the clock, frustrated and begging for sleep, please just spare a thought for ggglimpopo who lost her beautiful dd last week at the age of 2 for no reason.
It made me give my ds and dd an extra long cuddle last night.
Although I hate getting no sleep, I sometimes forget just how lucky I am and how much pain their family, probably along with others, are going through atm.

[justJAM]

nbgs - so so true now feel very at myself

[PinkTulips]

well said Feathers. my 2 have been getting extra hugs too

(btw..... only 6 months interrupted sleep? try over 2 years! i only got dd sorted when i was pregnant with ds and not able to sleep for him kicking me and being up to pee every hour.... and then he was born and i got even less!)

[gingerninja]

God Feathers, I hadn't heard. I don't know ggglimpopo but she has my deapest deapest sympathies.

[gingerninja]

[Ginger passes out at the rosy picture K'baby paints for the future ahhhhhhhhh]

DD went to bed at 7 (45 minutes ago and has already woken 4 times screaming. I think I'm the new owner of 'most waking baby at 4 months' record. Bring on tonight!

[NbgsYellowFeathers]

I dont want to put a downer on the thread but having read ggglimpopos post, it made me realise how insignificant our babies not sleeping is. Seems like a walk in the park compared to having to deal with that.

But heres to our lovely little darlings.

[gingerninja]

have a look at this interesting post about four monthers


Nbgs, I understand. Msnet is a great support to many and for many different subjects.

[REIDnotREEDorREAD]

what a rather sad yet fantastic thread!!! My DS was born 24th Aug (3 wks early) and his sleep pattern has gone mad. It is sooooo good to read other peoples posts about there LOs sleep! it makes me realise i'm not alone!

My DS is now being looked after by my mum and MIL.As i have gone back to wor MIL pushes ds around all day in his pram so he sleeps all day, which of course means he wont sleep at night. i think i might invite her around tomorrow night to put him to bed and get up with him at 4am!

he is usually a good sleeper at night but has recently started waking at 5.30am so we go in to comfort him, give dummy etc, so he goes back to sleep until around 6.15am then thats it he's up for the day - tll mil gets him in his pram

sorry for long post - it was ood to share my day!

[cruisemum1]

Justjam - that is amazing!!! My dd was sleeping from 9 - 6 and sometimes even to 7 at 9 weeks - 9 hrs at 9 weeks just like yours (are you sure we are not sharing our baby??? . Surely it is only a matter of time befor they get back on track
NBGS - that is just such tragic tragic news. It is the most hideous thing one can possibly imagine. That poor poor woman. She must be going through absolute hell. Poor poor thing . I shlall give my beautiful baby son an extra hug even when he does wake me in the early hours....
Ginger - hope your evening is improving. Maybe you need to take more drastic action. Write a log of her waking/sleeping/eating habits over a week or so and then spend time trying to iron out the problems. I'm of no use really but I am thinking of you as you pace your floor feeling frustrated, angry, despairing and hoping it gets easier

[cruisemum1]

ginger - i jsut checked out your link - ta!

[justJAM]

morning all!!!

Well was so so last night, DD was in bed at 7, didn't wake before dream feed at 10.45 but did wake at 2 and 4
the weird thing is she doesn't cry when she wakes, just lays there chatting away to herself, so I wait to see if she'll drop off again, occasionally she does but more often than not I or DH go in, pop a dummy in and she's off again

I had to wake her at 7 this morning (she was soundo from being awake talking all night) and she only took 4 ounces so surely it's hunger waking her as she would cry in the night/take more in the morning?????

I'm not looking forward to today, DD has her 4 month jabs how were your LO's after the 3 jabs in one hit???

Also welcome reidie, nice to see you in a thread other than the bar!!!

[justJAM]

sorry, meant to say surely it's not hunger