Still awake with newborn

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Part 2 ... everyone welcome

No JB3, my ds strains too. So much so that I offer my finger for him to squeeze!

theotherendofthesockportal at least my dd can be shipped off to school in the day. I take my hat off to those mums with 2 or more under 4!

So after swapping notes with dh this morning, it seemed that ds skipped the midnight feed last night.
Interesting.
He went 6 hours without a feed. We genuinely concluded he cannot he well as this is much unlike him!

I'm starting to think two under two was the stupidest idea ever!!
DS doesn't cluster feed as much as you lady's on here seem to contend with, but even so everyvthree hours feeding is draining, mAinly due to him needing about an hour to settle afterwards, cutting my sleep time down to 2 hours. During the day it's impossible to settle him like that with DD running about.
Whoever said that newborns sleep through all noise was spouting some serious bull! Mine certainly doesn't! The minute my DD says anything remotely near him, let alone shout, sing or laugh his eyes are open!!

@Hashtag DD was 8 days overdue so yes, the sleep regression seems more and more likely now.

@Toonewtobehaving2 oh my goodness, you have your hands full. Total respect!
It will be worth it when they are older and they can play together. My two have a 5 year gap so my challenge will be then, I fear.

I’ve just realised I’ve been sat down watching Bing for the last few minutes..... I hate Bing.
Dd is at school now and Have just returned and turned the tv back on and haven’t changed the channel.

Bing is seemingly covered in mud and I just hear another character “Bing jumped in a puddle and did a great big ......poo splash”

Genuinely thought she was going to say poo--

Oh I hate Bing too, he’s such a wethead.

Luckily DH took DS and DD downstairs si got an extra hour in. Don't know how I'll cope once he's back at work and I'm doing the nursery run! We are lucky in that DD is able to stay at her nursery 4 days a week, my parents are helping with the fees (they live far away so think they feel guilty they can't physically to more). I honestly can't think how I'd manage with two of them during the week, especially being so tired. That confession makes me sound a rubbish mum, I know...

@WhoAteAllthePercyPigs you are absolutely not a rubbish mum! Shake that off right away!
I left my ds on the mat with the tv on, it’s now moved on to a less insulting mr tumble, and he’s loving it!

Would I he still love it if I switched over to designated survivor? I’ve got another episode to catch up on.

I could really eat some Percy Pigs right now...

@AMagdalena I have a 16 week old and sleep started getting worse just before 12 weeks. Even though it’s early, it has all the characteristics of the 4 month sleep regression. Then we had a good week last week and I was foolishly optimistic and now we’re back to crap again. He has a cold which isn’t helping because he’ll wake himself up coughing and need settling. We also had vomit this morning at 4am!

To all the mums with younger babies - your baby may be much better at sleeping than mine is. I hope the 4 month sleep regression passes you by! And if not, I’m so surprised at how well I’m coping on disturbed sleep. I was the sleep queen before having a baby, and was a real crank when I was tired. But somehow I’m doing it.

Right. Sorry ds. I am drawing the line at teletubbies. I gaining control of the remote.

Just dealt with a major 💩 nappy explosion. He needed a new outfit 🙈 hoping he will nap now. Must have tired him out ha!

Not looking forward to sleep regression... How much worse can it be?!?

Lol hashtag Re: finger pull

My house is effin freezing. Declared sofa morning in dressing gowns and sleeping bag (him). Spent last night cold....must source better pjs for side feeding in bed.....now I'm caught between snoring husband and snuggled son in sleeping bag. Mum's get a raw deal!!

Ds has started smiling today. My heart is exploding

Awww congrats on the smile jellybabie!!! So cute x

I think we have hit the 4 month regression to @AMagdalena. We were six days overdue so he’s 3.5 months from due date (I think? I’m very tired so I can’t be more precise).

He went down at 8 but woke at 12.30 needing me to resettle him, then fed at 2.10.

Not so bad so far.

Went down at 3.10. And woke at 4.05, 5.05 and 6.10. Took about fifteen minutes to get him back to sleep each time then he was up at 6.40 for a feed and then had a fidgety nap in my bed from 7.30-8.15.

Past few nights we have also had several non-hungry wake ups. I’ve read that giving them their dummy each time is not a good idea as it builds dependence and they’ll never grow out of the regression but what are you meant to do? Whether you feed them or rock them or whatever they’ll ‘get dependent’ if that theory is true. I bloody hope it isn’t though!

@Nina Just when you begin to think you're getting somewhere!
No advice on the non-hungry wake ups. My DD will only settle back down by hugging up to the breast, eating or being rocked.

There isn't even any coffee in this flipping house

I’m lucky that he will resettle with just his dummy but I normally have to put it in 2-3 times as he’ll spit it out as he falls asleep and that wakes him back up again.

To be honest, I don't like the dummy and never have done. I only give it to DD when she struggles to fal asleep outside.
Just a funny aversion...

Attempt no.1 of putting 5 w/o ds down in sleepyhead for nap. Woke after 20mins.

So.

Is that him realising i had left him.

Or.

Is that just a 20min nap.

Should i try again?

Worse thing is i used that time to bring the bin in.....and its effin freezing out.

Why.

IME it's a nap. Very typical of my DD.

Lallypop my DD sounds like your DS. 4 month regression came early and stayed late. I used to 'joke' that DD was stuck in a permanent sleep regression! I have to say things got so much better when she turned 1 and I stopped breastfeeding. Not great, and we did co sleep for a few months, but there was a big improvement. I am just praying DS follows a different pattern. But yes, it's amazing how well you can cope on little sleep!

@hashtag I'd offer you some percy pigs...but I ate 'em all