'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!!

[yummymummylu]

DP def has no sense of when he's awake and fed and then moans when he doesnt settle as quick as the previous night!!
He ended up on the sofa until he got uncomfortable at 6"4 that wasnt long!! Haha that'll teach him to distrub the boy!!

Men I tell u are the bain of womens lifes!!

x

[cruisemum1]

ginger - read my post! I had a shit night too.

[cc21]

Have heart Ginger! I used to like it when jabs were due. It was the only time I could guarantee she would sleep for more than 3 hours. It was only for the one night mmind....

[Ash80]

Hello mums,

Just thought id join in on the sleep moan.My 5 month ds drinks 8 onces of milk and goes to sleep in his cot at 8pm, then wakes or dream feed at 11pm of 7 ounces. Then.........wakes at 2.30am and i turn him back to sleep, then wakes at 3am, and i give him some water.He then sleep till 3.40am ...he then keeps waking every hr till 6am, when i finally gave him some milk, he then talks in his cot for an hour then cries and fell asleep till 8.30am!!!!! Thats how my nights have been for the past 3 weeks, im hoping its a phase.I really really miss sleeping!

[cc21]

Welcome Ash. I'd like to say that its a phase but I've been saying that since DD was 12wk (now 23)

[cc21]

thats 23wks not yrs

[cruisemum1]

cc21 i am so

[knittingfog]

Sending lots of sympathy as my ds1 still wasn't sleeping through at 4/5 months and this is making me TRULY appreciate ds2 who was born mid Sept. He gets put down awake at 7.30/8pm, shuffles and grunts but takes himself off to sleep and rarely wakes before 6.00 am, mostly sleeping for 12 hours.

In early Dec we found that he was kicking off the covers and waking up cold so a baby sleeping bag thingy is what has worked the miracle for us.

[cc21]

hi cruise - I'm now wishing I'd not said it as I'm scared she'll be a sod tonight!!!

I'm convinced she's on this computer when i'm not looking

[kbaby]

well weve had terrible nights. i cant even remember how much weve been up. wed night was awake 3 times b4 10.30 for dummy,turn on side 11pm feed wouldnt settle after feed and so constantly up and down until 5am! last night was better as he has a cold so i had a valid excuse for medised, he woke at 11 for milk and medised and slept until 6am!!

[knittingfog]

With ds1 we eventually tried one of the methods of "she who must not be named".

We woke him and started the day at 7.00 am regardless of the fact that he may have been awake at 6.00 am (my eyes needed matchsticks initially) and had only just have gone back to sleep. I woke him from daytime naps if they were going on too long and this helped ensure that he got enough feeds in during the day. Within 3 days he was sleeping much better/longer at night but I had to get him off to sleep with rocking unlike ds2 who just sorts himself out somehow.

[justJAM]

careful knitting, it's when you say they are sleeping so well it goes squiffy, my DD was 12 hrs no problem from 9 weeks, is now 18 weeks and is playing silly buggers
This thread is jinxed that when you say all is well it changes, lol.

[gingerninja]

Lu. I love it when DH says, "Is that the first time she's woken" when I've been up and down for hours, fed her twice and changed two dirty nappies. grrrr

Cruise. sorry, hadn't read your post. Too self absorbed this morning. Gord you must have very sore nips. Was that almost two hours continuous sucking before midnight?

Welcome Ash, you're in good company. I haven't seen this much of the night since I was at Uni 12 years ago. Funny thing is, I still wake up feeling hung over without a drink in sight. Anyone else feel like they've aged a million years in the last 4 months?

Knitting, my LO was in a sleeping bag from about three weeks so don't think I can use that excuse. I've also tried 'she who shall not be named' routines. I've tried baby whisperer and everything else under the sun. I gave up because it stressed me so much trying to get lo to fit in with my idea of a routine when she clearly had other ideas. I'm now much happier since i've learned to just go with it and she's settled herself into something resembling a routine anyway.

KBaby, LOL at your medised story the other day and glad you can use it justifiably today. We were given piriton for DD and her itchy eczema and I admit to using it one night just to get her to have some sleep. worked wonders!!

Well, she's had her injections. Even smiled at the nurse afterwards which annoyed me because I was more upset than her! She's asleep now. Lets see how long it lasts.

[cruisemum1]

ginger- my dh is the same! When he calls in teh mnorning on his way to work he says "what's up? You sound tired...grrrrr
Well ds is asleep in his cot for a nap! It did involve around 10 mins of crying but I just really want him to get into the habit of sleeping thre. The quality of sleep must be so much better than when he is crammed into a car seat or in his buggy where there is less rrom for him to move.
yep, sore, red nips today! every time he woke he had a suck. Hoping it was a blip in his improving nights
Hope you have abetter one tonight.

[yummymummylu]

Im so sure men dont have that maternal instinct, even when I ask him to take over a night to let me sleep I still find myself waking and telling him what to do to get the LO to be quiet!! lol
DS is asleep in he's crib now, it's lovely which we all know wont last for long!!
He settles fine during the day but tends to practise he's screaming technique during the night!! Monkey I tell u!!
I also have tried all the self help books that teach you how to perfect your child going to sleep and at the mo they are sitting gathering dust at the end of the bed! DS knows no meaning of sleep and how to do it the middle of the night! But to my DP 'I need this book to help us get some sleep!!' yet Im the only 1 suffering at the hands of our child!! lol
I'm really pleased I found this thread as I thought I was the only 1 suffering from bedraggled hair and bug eyedness! Yet every1 tells me its just a phase and he'll grow out of he's middle of the night waking!! Well please hurry up and show me the light at the end of the tunnel!

[Ash80]

yummymummylu- you are so right about dh's, i always end up telling him what to do and how to do it, or even waking him up and as can sleep through a torando!!

ginjerninja- I always feel like im hungover, and i am so irritable, cranky and can't remember the last time i cooked properly.

we must keep telling ourselves that this will end and our adorable babies will eeventually sleep through the night .As all these self help books keep saying.
It really annoys me, when it says by 4 month your babay should be sleeping through the night!!!!!

[gingerninja]

My mother is equally good at making me feel crap because DD isn't sleeping. My milk isn't good enough quality. (Well known fact apparantly that by four months your milk starts to reduce in quality). She's never been very supportive of BF and thinks I should use formua. I also need to start her on solids. We were apparently eating a full roast dinner by 6 weeks. And asking for seconds. Yesterday when I mentioned that I thought DH's snoring disturbed her she had the nerve to tell me that babies should be able to sleep through anything. Obviously it's because I'm starving her. Honestly.

Lu, forgot to mention. My LO sleeps in our room but I'm begining to wonder if we're all disturbing one another and perhaps she should be in her own room. For all my moaning I think I'll miss her when we do move her though.

[cc21]

Oh my god! DH has just returned from work, informed me he's tired and has gone to bed for an hour, "can I keep DD quiet for a bit"

The bloody cheek, I'm sure he thinks I sit on my arse all day watching TV, and clearly has amnesia about my night-time antics. Would have argued but was too so thought I'd fill my MN'ers in

[cc21]

He's also crap with his suggestions for getting her to sleep. If he tells me one more time what some woman in the office did with her one that slept 14 hours a night.....

[cc21]

He's also crap with his suggestions for getting her to sleep. If he tells me one more time what some woman in the office did with her one that slept 14 hours a night.....

[gingerninja]

CC, let him sleep but wake him up every time you're awake tonight and tomorrow and make him do stuff. Bloody cheek
Men!

[cruisemum1]

oh mine is the same. regularly has lie-ins every weekend cos he 'works long hours'!!! . aldso told me a mate of his just let their two scream themselvr=es to sleep and it worked. of course it bloody worked but how horrible!!! grrrrrrrr

[2labs]

Lol at all these dh's being oblivious to night-wakings - mine is too! I have to say he is fab though. He always takes ds downstairs weekend mornings so I can catch up on sleep, then wakes me with a cuppa. For the first few weeks after the birth he even took ds and dogs out every morning for an hour or two at the crack of dawn, acquiring quite a fan club of adoring old ladies in the park . Still does the morning dog-walk most mornings. So I can't complain that he sleeps through even though ds and I don't...

Good luck everyone as we prepare for the evening mission...

[justJAM]

not too bad a night - though it did take nearly 2 hrs to get DD to sleep, whicj was hard going, ginger your post re Mum's and eating at 6 weeks really made me laugh, my mum always tells me about us having baby when only a few weeks old as we were hungry!! I think they just did it back then as the norm...my mum looked at me like I was mad when I mentioned BLW...lol

Cruise - I do hate it when people mention CC, I upset one friend once when they went on about it when DD was a couple of months and I was in the process of getting her used to being upstairs for bedtime (as opposed to downstairs with us in moses basket) in the end I snapped "the reason the baby stops crying is because it feels abandoned and thinks it's not worth crying because no one will come anyway" I did feel as she used CC and I make it a point not to comment as parenting is very personal.

DD is in her own room (since 3 months) I didn't want to do it then but she outgrew her moses basket (is a big girl) have to say, (for a while ) we all slept better, though I missed her being next to me terribly, she was fine.

Sorry I've gone on

[cruisemum1]

2labs - re: your dh. wanna swap!