Still awake with a (not so) newborn - the further adventures of EBLL...

[Jellybean2017]

Hope everyone finds the new thread 😂 and new chatterboxes are welcome to join us and battle through the night feeds together (with or without the assistance of EBLL [Ewan's back left leg!) 🐏

@londonloves it’s quite distracting isn’t it! I have to play white noise really loudly to block her out.
Endearing though, I’ll miss it when she’s bigger!

I have the same next to me cot set up and can also agree that its very distracting. i say i have the best view thoughwhen he is sleeping

It’s so lovely watching them when they sleep. But it’s that 👀😱🤦‍♀️ moment when they open their eyes and see you!

@OhB0llocks we have tried to introduce a bedtime routine but although DS enjoys being in Bath he hates being taken out, dried etc
He also generally hates being undressed and redressed so that's also quite stressful! He did seem to enjoy a book last night for the first time so I might try using that book as a cue for nap times and bed time...

We have just had a Co sleeping nap which was lovely. Nothing planned today so think a lazy day will be on the cards.

Hope HV appointment goes well @Jellybabie3. Why do they insist in coming so early 🙈

*the bath. We don't drive him to Bath every night. That would be a nightmare 😂

DD has been very generous this morning and slept from 6am til 8.45am Normally she is before 7am and has a nap later on.

I greeted my HV in my PJ's the last time she came! I got my days mixed up...I blame sleep deprivation

We have a bedtime routine. It's basically just a bath and then the sleeping bag comes out. DD loves having a bath, getting changed, having her bum wiped.

AMagdalena I wish my DS loved getting changed etc. he really loves a warm bath and I love seeing him enjoy it but the trauma of getting him out of the water and dressed again completely undoes all the relaxation of the bath itself. I have tried putting the heating on so high I'm sweating, warming his clothes on the radiator, doing baby massage, singing to him. yet the second I take him out of the water it's full on screams.

I feel your pain @sleepycat13. Mine is exactly the same. Only recently has he stopped crying every nappy change!!

I was about to agree with your ds @Jellybean2017, I love Bath this time of year. The Christmas market is lovely! But every night is a little excessive.....

😂 i will hopefully be signed off to drive tomorrow and was planning a trip for a coffee and some light shopping but Bath sounds lovely!!

Hv signed me off so no more visits. Pretty sure she had me down as struggling for a while so thankfully it seems we have improved.

Wonder weeks book has arrived so plan to read that with a cuppa whilst trying not to panic when i see what is yet to come

@AMagdalena and @Jellybean2017 what time do you start your bed time routine of baths etc?

I went to Bath early this year and would return in a heartbeat lol.

My ds loves his bath but also screams blue murder after

We went to Bath for our wedding anniversary, lovely place but bit far from where we live every night 😂 ha!

@theotherendofthesockportal we don't start bedtime until 8 as DH not home until 6.30 at earliest and then we have to eat dinner, wash up etc. So we don't really see each other in the week as go off to our separate rooms at 8.30! Sometimes we text each other hahaha!

@theotherendofthesockportal We start the 'routine' at 7.30pm. Should probaly start earlier, but we need to get all the necessary chores done before we go to bed, so DD naps downstairs beforehand.

Struggling here. Tiredness has caught up with me, and really affecting my mood, this cold is not for shifting and DS feels quite warm and keeps bringing milk up. Just had a big go at my DH too, it's do hard not to resent him over the sleep thing. And having my parents staying is really challenging too.

Please reassure me it will get better??

@Whoateallthepercypigs I think you said your baby is two weeks? Still so tiny, it will definitely get better. It's the hardest thing in the world though. Are your parents able to watch baby while you have a power nap between feeds?

@percypigs it does get better I promise! I’m seconding having power naps if you have help! I didn’t nap enough in the first weeks and I regret that :p
Do keep an eye on his temperature though if you can. When DS had a temperature at 2 weeks we had to go straight to hospital for antibiotics :( turned out he had a kidney infection and we were on IV antibiotics for 5 days. He’s probably just a bit snotty but worth making sure if you can

Yep it does get better. But it’s not always linear so please keep that in mind too. We were having 1-2 wake ups before the 4 month sleep regression and now it’s so many more. However, he’s not awake for long in the night so it’s just about manageable.

I cope by going to bed early so I get a lot of sleep overall, and co-sleeping when I need to. I was obsessed with sleeping before I had a baby and still am, but somehow I’m coping despite not having long than a few hours sleep in one go for 4 months.

@Jellybabie3 the book is great because it gives you ideas about what developments to look for, and so it makes it that much more rewarding!

Checking in! Just plastered on the concealer as I am going into town for lunch.

My DS is 12 weeks and will NOT sleep unless being held, in sling or in our bed :o has maybe given in to sleep after screaming in the pram for 5mins twice in his life. I have tried and tried to put down in his cot / Moses / sleepyhead but he springs awake. Last night I put down in sleepyhead as I hadn’t done it for a few days and it was a huge reflux that made him wake up so I guess that’s not his fault. Maybe as he gets older the reflux and wind will improve and it may help ?

Even co sleeping he still wakes up about 5/6 times to feed. Think my milk may be watery as I understand most last longer by this age. Although I have learnt that nothing with a baby is normal or predictable !

@HashtagTired @AMagdalena thank you for your replies, do you go to bed at the same time as your baby?

Sorry @HashtagTired I meant @Jellybean2017 in my last message, I blame sleep deprivation

@theotherendofthesockportal I go to bed the same time as dd5, at around 7:30pm, leaving ds downstairs with dh. Dh brings ds upstairs about midnight and I take it from there.

Ah well, I answered anyway 😂👍🏻