new 'SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK' thread

[tibsy]

hi ladies, the other one ran out of space, so if no one else starts a new thread, here it is....

Yes i remember those days of going up and down the stairs loads before even getting to bed. My ds sleeps with dh now and sometimes i get 7 hours of uninterupted sleep, and dh sleeps so deeply i don't think he hears ds talking to him.

well, no prizes for guessing how my night is going ...

Morning!

Amberjee - I was right there with you hope it got better.

Maebee - Hope you had a good evening.

Have had a terrible few days so have lost track of everyone, Hi to new people!

I am hoping DD will get up today with new teeth, she has been impossible to settle and has started her waking every 45 minutes again so have had no evening for 3 days and has been up every hour or two in the night as well [very tired emoticon]

She had been improving but she is teething so we are back to the old habits, I am not leaving her to cry at all at the minute as I know she is feeling like poo, just hope that when she feels better she remembers how to settle herself. She did last time so fingers crossed.

In amongst this sleep deprived week DD has learned how to sit alone - still doesn't roll over but at least now she seems to enjoy playing with her toys where she can see them, before she would drop one and not be able to get it and shout until I gave it back. Now she just leans forward towards it. It is a bit awkward having a duvet in the middle of the floor but at least she won't get brain damage when she topples over, she just laughs and lets me sit her back up. I think the trick is that I laughed at her and let her fall (knowing she would not get hurt) the first few times so she in confident now.

Hope you all have a good day

morning. Good night here.(sorry). went to bed 7, woke at 12 (for milk) then woke at 5.15 (for more milk!) then up at 7 for the day. Have realised form ncss he is using bottle as a sleep association/crux so halved the ounces last night and he didn't even notice! Infact he slept longer between them than usual. Going to gradually wean off milk in night and hope he'll be settled eventually just by putting his dummy back in and ultimately sleep through!
welcome to rosie.
Tibsy you are an amazing mum

morning. thanks swizzler and bampa. crisis of confidence averted, feel much brighter this morning. sun shining too!!
last night after the usual yo yo evening, was not TOO bad, didnt seem to feed too much (that i remember!) and woke at 6.40 for the day. i feel half awake so thats a good sign.
have decided its probably the developmental thing of not achieving object permanence yet as she is crying every time i leave the room now. hopefully by 8-9 months she'll be better!... well at least she'll realise i've not dropped off the face of the earth anyway!
Bampa - GREAT night for you, am really pleased. more of the same heh?!!
welcome rosie and amber, hope your night improved.
catch you later, off to work soon with dd

well, he didnt wake up all the time we were out! i think it was quite a good night in all, untiil 4 when he woke every 20 mins, and i was doing the baby alone...my dp was having back trouble. anyway, hi all, im knackered again!

tonight we are trying the "put the baby down awake in his own cot in his own room". the theory is that if the baby gets themselves off to sleep then when they wake up they can get themselves back to sleep....sounds a plausible theory but there are many plausible theories! probably the sort of babies that like buggies and car seats can do that trick, but not my little monster.

i might try the ncss when this one fails, sounds interesting....

I'll catch up later as have visitors but another shite night. Screaming screaming screaming. teeth or tummy? that is the question

have not had a chance to read up on posts (so many!!!) last night was good. settled at 7:15. had to re-settle (wth boob) an hour later then woke at 11ish and 3ish till 7ish. seem to be averaging 2 wakings per night currently which seems heavenly comparied to some of you and some of my recent nights. will catch up later. have to put my ironing away (yawn)

hi can i join this thread my dd use to be a wonderful sleeper then she went to waking once a night and now it is 6 or 7 times but i only one give her one feed she is nearly 18weeks old and am exhausted!!!

youngmum - welcome to our thread! this was stated because we all had 4 month olds who suddenly stsrted waking frequently. my ds was doing 8 - 10 hrs then BANG! awake 2 hourlyt. yu might not find any solutions but you will defo find support. has your lo been poorly recently? that was the turning point for mine.

sorry - started not stated

She had a bit of a snotty nose which i thought mite of caused it as she struggles with her dummy and cant sleep with out it maybe she still struggling with her snotty nose!!!

Thanks for the welcome,support is wot i need especially as i am going back to work in two weeks and am hoping she will be bak to just one waking otherwise i dont know how im going to cope!!!

welcome youngmum but for your lack of sleep. We all sympathise x

welcome youngmum and hello to all!
a boast from me. dd slept for 1 1/2 HOURS at lunchtime!!!!! this from a child who wakes up after 30 mins exactly!
wish i could take the credit, but it was thanks to my dear friend and colleague. dd and i were at work helping out and lovely friend looked after her as i did a therapy. fed her, AND got her to sleep. RESULT!!!!
am thinking of tempting her to try a night time too!!

tibsy that's great Maybe you and dp could get out for an early dinner/drink one night and ask her to babysit again. We're out tonight for dinner/drinks. Mil babysitting. Only problem is ds just up from a 2 hour afternoon nap which he never does so god knows what time he'll go to bed for her! oh well........

well my LO was so cute last night. but unfortunately i just don't appreciate it at 2am, 3am, 4am, etc. i ended up having to put him in my sling to get him to sleep, but when i took him out, bam, wide awake, thankyou! if left him in his cot for a while kicking and gurgling, I put my earplugsin and hoped for the best - I think I managed an hour that way. At least he was in a good mood and entertaining himself, this is a new development. Hopefully the sleep maturity will develop soon too. hoping tonight will be better. he was in a good mood this afternoon so i massaged him for 1/2 an hour - will this help his sleep? it remains to be seen.

best wishes for all your evenings!

just put the boy to bed, his excema is so bad and itchy, it was bleeding quite badly. we meant to start putting him in his own room and putting him down awake, but his poor ears (where his excema is) won me over and he is in my room still. we have some epaderm prescribed, will see if it helps. my health visitor thinks this could be why hes waking up so much.
and we are going to try medised if he wakes in pain and itching too much.
an 8 oclock night for me, i think. yawn. could go now but dp is cooking me some delicious dinner apparantly....
wishing you all a good night. heres to a mere 2 wakings!

maebee- your poor lo. You are right to keep him in your room if he is uncomfortable. Too much of a change for him if he keeps waking and then finds he is somewehe new. Hope the cream works.
tibsy - what is your friend's trick?! Funny that they don't seem to play up for other people isn't it? Wish I could afford a live in nanny. Mind you she would have to be hairy and ugly.
Amber at your night. what was lo playing at?! Let's hpoe tonight is a little less 'lively'!
bampa - enjoy your night out. Let mil worry about lo's bedtime antics

yes, your poor lo maebee. but sounds great about dinner. I on the otherhand have just rescued something from the freezer for dinner. thank goodness for those frozen leftovers!

Sorry to hear about your bad nights - well done to Cruise's LO tho (keep it up ). We;ve had a coupe of restless nights, not too bad but not good (about 3 wakings betw 10 and 6:30). Think the teeth are making another go of it. DS has been grizzly today as well, so may be in for another bad night .

Youngmum: I go back at the beg of April as well and am worried about the sleeping thing, tho I suspect that being at work may be easier than looking after a baby all day!

Hope you all have better nights tonight.

Can't respond to all the posts - what a sleepless lot we all are. Welcome to all you new non-sleepers. My lo was a great sleeper until 4 months then had a huge growth spurt and has never got any better.

From what I've read 'seperation anxiety' gets worse until it peaks at around 1yr. Once they realise that when things go out of sight they still exist then they start worrying about where you've gone and when you'll be back.

Well hourly wake ups again last night so we will see what happens tonight.

Sleepy thoughts

lori - hope your night was better.

Another night of 1.5 hr wake ups - cd it be to do with starting solids? Also have been swapping morning walks for morning naps in bed, so have hauled self out of bed this morning to see if that makes any difference .

well my LO is so happy this week, but stays awake all night (from about midnight on). its not that he's got day and night confused because he won't sleep in the day either. could it be that he's a new breed of baby that in fact doesn't need sleep? what is going on. no wonder i was frustrated when the midwives kept telling me i should just 'sleep when the baby sleeps'. when is that? and he is in a great mood this morning as well (pity the same can't be said for me). the overtiredness must set in at some point!

swizzler/amber - so sorry to hear of your sleepless nights. ds woke at 11:45pm, 1:20am and 3is then up at 6:10am for the day so am feelong pretty frayed myself. wish they knew it was mothers day tomorrow - then maybe they'd give us a break!