Anyone else just had a shit night??

[SleepForTheWeek]

Go on, make me feel better and less alone!

DD2 (15 weeks) up 4/5 times, DD1 (3) up crying and in with me at 12 and Ddog totally unsettled and up and down off bed all night. To top it off DD1 up for the day at 6.15 and woke DD2 up in the process.

I’ve already snapped at DD1 twice at things that weren’t really her fault. DH away at the moment, it’s going to be a looooooong day isn’t it?

Us too - only one DC here (2) but he was in with me from 0200 and restless from 0400. He's going through a bad patch anyway but last night was a new low and am now stiff from co-sleeping in the same position for six hours. Roll on nap time!

Three in a row.
Ds is 13 months. Had a high fever for the last few days. Napped for 3 hours solid yesterday, fell asleep at 6.30pm woke briefly at 9pm, restless all night. Still an improvement on the previous 2 nights.
it will pass.
They will be teenagers at some point and sleep all day.
I hope!

I know, I know - doesn’t help when you’re head hurts through tiredness though 😭. DD1 always been a shit sleeper but DD2 is usually only up once. It better be a better base!!

We all sat in front of the telletubbies now. DD1 doesn’t nap and DD2 only cat naps during the day so chance for a rest.

We have friends coming over later and the house is a bloody bomb site so will have to try tidy up too

*better be a phase

Ah tired headache is the pits.
Drink lots, try get a bit of fresh air if you can. One of the benefits of also having a dog is that we have to go out zombie or not.
As for the tidying, be like Mary Bobbins and do a half-assed job. Your friends are coming to see you, not your house.

Bad night here too. DD3 was screaming at 12.40 and came into with me as wouldn't settle. She's been restless since, waking me at least 3 times whimpering in her sleep. Now we have an 8 hour drive to contend with! Hopefully she will sleep for some of it.

Bad night here too. Up with DS 15 months 4 times. He's teething. Asked DH how many times he'd been up with DS...'None. I didn't hear him' DH has now taken DS downstairs for teletubbies while I try and stop my brain crawling out of my ear. Definitly second the fresh air. Has saved me on many an occasion. And don't worry about the house. Your visitors won't, and if they do, fuck em. The latter also applies if they don't bring cake and offer to make you tea

Yup. DS (7mo) up 1-2, the dog barking at drunk students at 3, then DS up at 4, 5 and 6.

Yup! Migraine, severe abdo and back pain! Contemplating 101 or A&E...

And me!! 10 month old DD has a bad cold, been in my bed for 3 nights, wakes every hour and this morning decided 5.10 was a good time to get up. DH away till Wednesday, so it's just the 2 of us.

Urg. That is all. Just been reminded I promised the older 2 we'd go swimming this morning too. Urg.

Every night since January more or less! Long story short - ds in and out of hospital since January having treatment for a brain tumour, so lots of sleepless/disturbed nights! He's been fed by NG tube since June so every night since then I've had to get up to change his feed bottle in the night. He is currently being fed from 8pm until 7am which requires a 3.30am bottle change then I get up again at 6.50am to draw up all his medicines which I put down his tube when I take the feed down. Then it's not worth going back to bed. I feel like I'm on auto pilot most days!

Yep we had the usual shit night with 7 week old
Up at 1.30. 3.45. 5pm

Zzzzzz

I wrote this on another thread but one of the bests of advice I got was don't look at the clock when you wake. Just suck up however many wakeups it is and crack on.
It really affects how you view the night - you're still tired obviously but it doesn't seem like such a big deal somehow.
Obviously not possible if you need to time meds.

Sorry -not sorry- others are in the same boat!

As for my vistors, my friend is coming round to keep me sane - she has 2 DDs and they'll occupy the toddler at least BUT her house is like a bloody show home so always stress about my toy bomb house!! i've blitzed the kitchen so just the living room and bathroom to do really - bedrooms are a no go area.

DD1 has been given my phone and is watching rubbish on YouTube - DD2 slept for 45 mins which gave me time to get washed and dressed. Aaaaah the joys!

Muddling i'm sorry to hear about your Ds - what a shitty thing for you all to have to go through. I hope he makes a full recovery and you have plenty of support

Yep. They're all bad.
12 wk old doesn't sleep more than two hours.
Cat goes mental if ever baby sleeps and tears around the flat celebrating herself at 3am.

Losing my mind.

Oh and the weather is absolutely dismal so no 'fresh air' apart from dragging Ddog (who is still slumbering upstairs) across the road for a pee

Thank you @sleepfortheweek x

DD is 17 days and very snotty and windy. She won't settle and screams like she's been stabbed , plus I have a cold and the cold sweats.

She's just conked out on me and I'm too scared to try move her.

Ds recently diagnosed as asthmatic has been up all week needing his inhaler, zombie doesn't cover it.
Dh tried his luck this morning and I told him quite politely to fuck off!!

Bad night here too!

11 month old DS teething —again!— so ended up in with me around 1am. DH came to bed late and had the cheek to say “in with us again I see..” to which I replied “yes he fucking is, my head feels like it’s caving in”

He also does the whole “DS had a great night last night didn’t he?”
No, you just didn’t hear him

What makes it worse is that the night before DS nearly slept through for the first time ever. Obviously me sleeping for longer than 3 hours at a time was a treat not to be repeated

@MuddlingThroughLife Sorry to hear about your DS. Hope you’re all coping as best you can Puts all of this moaning into perspective.

Well, got DD1 adorned in her puddle suit and wellies, I got dressed to for a snowstorm, the dog was wrestled into her coat and I got a screaming DD2 into the pram with rain cover.

Off we went out into the storm with an enthusiastic DD1Who couldn’t WAIT to jump in puddles.

We lasted to the end of the street before DD1 started complaining her face was sore.

We are now eating popcorn and watching the television (again)

Feeling a bit better - that 30 secs of fresh air did actually help!

Glad to see we are not alone! I've been up since 5am today. Last night after DD fighting sleep and bedtime for two hours, just as I went to get the plug for the white noise machine a load of students piled into a car parked right under the bedroom window and it woke her and I was back to square one and it was another hour before I could go downstairs. I felt absolutely murderous, mostly because the night before I literally didn't sleep a wink as DD was attached to the boob all sodding night and woke and cried every time I tried to unlatch her. She is 12 months now and has never been a great sleeper but on holiday a month ago she slept through the night (and I had terrible insomnia both times so didn't benefit just sat in a chair in the hotel room watching DD and DP starfish and snore) and now with more teething it's all gone to shit and she is like a newborn again, but much bigger, stronger and noisier.

for us all!