Solidarity thread for the non sleeping babies!

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Hello! A new thread for babies who don't bloody sleep and aren't sleep trained in any way to chat/cry to each other in desperation!

Just read from a very respectable source the daily fail that over tiredness causes your brain to eat itself! We're all fucked

My DD is 6 months and currently only believes in sleep if it's in my bed. And so close to me that when I breathe it rocks her back to sleep

Hi everyone, just managing to catch up now.
My mum has bought DS one of those slumber buddies in the hope it will magically help him sleep, but as it's too light in my room to properly see it I'm not sure how much help it will be! Really need to get blackout blinds. Saying that, as he's fed to sleep he's not able to look at the light projection anyway!
The last couple of nights have been okayish, DS has went to sleep at a reasonable time & has been a lot easier to actually get to sleep compared to the last couple of weeks (still being fed to sleep then moved into travel cot next to my bed once asleep) He has then went 3 or 4 hours then fed to sleep again then had another couple of hours sleep. But he seems to wake up every hour after 3am, so he usually gets brought into our bed where I attempt to get comfy enough to fall back asleep (also need a king size bed )
Keep getting told I need to leave him to cry a little rather than jumping up straightaway to see to him, which would be easier said than done if he didn't properly start sobbing within 30 seconds of waking up

I really need to condense my posts, it's like I'm writing a blog or something

Disney - I'm the same with jumping in straight away. There's much more chance of me getting her back to sleep if I get in to her room before she really revs up. Although that hasn't done me much good the last two nights (up 3 hours solid tues night and 4 hours last night. Party time apparently)

Your right about the leaving them to cry for a bit. If I leave DS it just works him up and takes longer to get him back off. That and at 3am I don't think my neighbors would appreciate it!

About the teething. DS cut his 2 bottom teeth on the same day about 6 weeks ago, he had a bit of problems with them but nothing like he is having now. One of his back molars cut through a couple of days ago but we think it's the top ones that are going to be next. I can't see it feel anything though but that seems to be where he is chewing. I hate this teething shit, it's fucking awful for them as once you've done the gel, cold chews, calpol there's not a whole lot left to do. Would be easier if they just all came through in one go, same day. Done!

Another one here who if is left for more than 0.2 of a second is impossible to resettle

Youvegot is it common to cut a molar after the front ones? I thought my DDs mouth was just lumpy where the molars are but maybe they'll be next! Hadn't realised that could happen

Disney we have a slumber buddy! DD's more interested in trying to eat it though I also bought some black out blind from Amazon, the ones I got you just apply like sticky Velcro strips to the plastic around the window and the blind is soft material so sticks to them, after the gro blind its so much easier and no falling down in the night

fury he is 6mo and I've been told it's early for a back molar. The molar has actually cut through the gum on one side. On the other side it's just lumpy so I don't know if another one is on it's way or that's just his gum. We was very surprised to feel and see the first one!

Youvegot I would've been surprised too! DD's first corner of her front bottom tooth has poked through today! I was so excited unfortunately I only saw it as she screamed for so long this afternoon so had her mouth open for long enough to have a look

For the first time in weeks DD has been asleep in her cot for an hour and I can't sleep as I keep feeling like she'll wake up any minute

So after 3 days of half decent sleep and DS luring me into a false sense of security he decided 11,12:30,1:30 and 4 were perfect times to wake up.he didn't even go down till 8:30pm! He is still awake now and I feel like the walking death.

Ohhh hi ! Can I join?
I have a 4.5 month old that has just come out of the regression and wakes 4-5 times a night still! We have one good stretch of about 2-3 hours then he is up every 1.5 hours on the dot 😴
I co slept through the regression as it was a nightmare.
I feed to sleep and I have replaced the chicco with a cot which I removed the side on. He seems to be doing well but I just think as I have co slept I have got him into a habit of snacking (I didn't think this my mum suggested it).
Please tell me they grow out of it themselves , I don't want to break my baby. (And I always start to doubt myself) But I also am completely baby led so I don't want to do anything if he's not ready (and we are a no tears house, where possible).

Hi everyone 👋🏻 how are you all doing? DD currently rolling around my bed showing absolutely

The baby grabbed my phone
I was saying showing no signs of going to sleep anytime soon, she's too happy rolling about and trying to chew my phone cable

Hiya! Well we had another awful night. Both kids asleep at 9. Baby awake at 11 for a coughing fit and to pinch me a bit, then 1:30 to feed and toddler awake at 2:30, then baby awake at 4 to feed and then up at 5 and not back down and toddler up at 5:30...anyone want to buy 2 kids? Swap them for a double espresso.

How are you guys?

Hello. Just checking in; same old same old here. Apart from this morning when Ds2 woke up and we could hear him babbling on the monitor happy as anything. DH said he's go and get him and then I heard the following on the monitor..

Morning baby...
Oh shit....

Erm can you come up...

Ds2 had pooed. It was hot last night so we had him a vest and it had escaped. The sheet, the top sheet, the pillow, the rug, the floor......

(I should add Ds2 sleeps on a mattress on the floor because he screams blue murder in his cot and refuses to sleep in it).

So that was nice.

Here's hoping all of the babies have got the weekend lie-in memo

I'm so tired, I even feel it in my feet. It's a whole new sensation of tiredness. When he was first born I was sooo adamant I wanted to get pregnant ASAP and have lots of babies. Thankfully oh wanted to hang fire, couldnt imagine this times two

@MamaHanji oh that's awful think they'd definitely get returned if you managed to swap them there should be like a baby sharing system where parents of non sleepers club together and do shifts people cope with triplets right? 😂

We're doing okay! DD actually went into her cot last night and lasted until 12.15 she's currently in her cot again so fingers crossed! Her second bottom tooth has just popped through this afternoon, a day after the first one, and the dribbling has just stopped she was going through 3-4 bibs a day and suddenly doesn't even need one!

Oh @StorminaBcup I'm sorry that did make me laugh! I know I shouldn't as I've got it all to come you should have pretended to have turned the monitor off and been oblivious! 

@user1482079332 that's lucky!! I know, I often think wtf would I do if I'd had twins! Couldn't physically bounce two babies if I tried you sound like you need some tonight, hoping for a good night for you!

Thanks for the recommendations of the calpol plug in, think it's was @furry, worked a treat and we had a much more settled night because of it. Still taking a long time to get DD settled at night but tonight's bedtime has been a lot calmer than previous nights with much less crying/screaming. Still multiple wake ups and no cot sleeping though. Hope everyone has a good night tonight

Hi. Can I join? My ds is just over 5 months and whilst we have always had the odd really bad night, since 4months he got in a pattern of doing at least 4-6 hours of unbroken sleep. This last week has been awful. He is waking every hour from 9pm-1am and again from 4am. He used to be fin after a feed but now he starts crying in his sleep after 5mins and thrashing around in his bed. If I ignore the cries they get worse until he wakes himself up. I have no idea what has suddenly changed. He's not fussed about feeding when he wakes. He doesn't seem to be teething in the day at the moment either. Since half 5 he hasn't let me put him down. I'm soooo tired I think I'm going slightly mad

I'll join you if I may. My 11 week old really outdid himself last night. Up at 11:30, didn't really want to go back to sleep and projectile vomited all over himself and the duvet just to prove it! Finally back to sleep after another feed, at 2am then up at 3:15! I fed him lying down but he just wakes himself up. Got him back in the Moses basket at 5:30 and he was awake at 6! I think I've had two hours sleep. I know it will get better one day but I'm finding it hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

@Flanderspigeonmurderer It apparently does get better, we're all waiting patiently for that day you do get used to it though! Nighttime projectile vomit is the worst though 

@Speedybloomer I'm glad it worked! They smell amazing don't they 

@StarDanced my DD seemed fine most of the days and did random screaming at night from 5-6 months and it just stopped last night the day her teeth popped through so it could be teeth

We had the best night we've had in a long time here, only had 2 proper feeds from 9pm-7am compared to 4/5 which was good! Can't remember if she lasted in her cot until 12 or 2am but I'm happy with either one and clearly I didn't wake up enough to notice the time anyway 

Argh, only just catching up. Have had some of the most AWFUL nights with DS. The night before last he was awake 12:30-3am, then hourly either side 😱

So I chose a different tack yesterday and crammed four 30min naps in the daytime and fed him up with lots of 'little and often' milk feeds (he is a real grazer!!). I've also noticed that the temp drops considerably in our (stone cottage) bedroom at night, so I put him under the duvet a bit (up to his waist), and it worked, a bit! Only woke up 3 times, as opposed to 50million!

Let's hope it's not a fluke....

Glad you both had a better night! We did too here, I think it's because we're back home after going away for half term. He only woke at 11:30, 3:30 and 6 to be fed. Stirred at 4:45 but dropped off eventually and was generally much easier to go down after feeds! Long may it continue.

Friday night was the best night in about 2 months!
He went down at 8pm and woke for a fed at 4:30 with no waking in between! Then, after the 4:30 feed he went back to sleep till 7:30!!! I actually couldn't believe it had happened! I thought that's it, no more sleepless nights and what did last night hold for me I hear you ask?
An hour of screaming before falling asleep at 8, a dozen wake ups till 11:30, fed and back to sleep till 3, 2 hours of screaming before waking for the day at 6:30. I guess he thought it would be funny to lure me into a false sense of security!

I don't f@&&ing believe it - both of them slept through from 7 til half 7 last night. My children actually slept

It will never ever ever be repeated but today is a good day. I'd apologise for my boasting but if you see my earlier post this is the first full nights sleep in years, so I'm not

Hope you all had restful or slightly more restful nights?

Grbburb

That's the only sounds I'm capable of making today. 😴