The great non-sleepers, newborn and beyond.

[NinaMarieP]

Thread number four (I think).

Welcome to all past posters and any new ones who are also up at all hours!

Posted too soon. Ugh. Tired and fed up. With you on eating crap Hashtag, it is the only way to get me through the day sometimes. Friends visited yesterday and brought me some yummy M&S chocolate truffles, I'm already halfway through the box Hate myself for doing it, I just feel like such a wreck right now, my post partum body is gross.

Another night, another completely different pattern...she slept really well from 11pm till 2:30am which is when she is usually awake, and I'm now trying to settle her again. It feels like she's trying out all the different timings to see what she likes best I'm not sure I'm keen on this one though, DH gets up in 2 hours.

I don't think my DS is following Wonder Weeks either.

He's definitely been acting differently yesterday and tonight. Would not settle without the dummy - very surprising, since he never really showed much interest in it and would spit it out more often than take it in. He's also fussed every time it fell out, meaning hourly wake ups. Ugh.

Ha Accrual love your theory about trying out different times, makes a lot of sense

Ven have to say that's also my issue with the dummy - when it falls out it means he fusses and it needs replacing. I'm finding it's been good for day naps but because if this issue, not so good at night?

@WhoAteAllthePercyPigs
I track her sleep etc in an app and day to day there is no pattern whatsoever! Was hoping she'd settle into a slight routine but that might be a bit ambitious at 1 month old (and she's an awkward little sod )

@WhoAteAllthePercyPigs I agree, at least until they're able to put it back in themselves, which won't happen for another half a year or so
Although it's definitely easier to replace it than to put him on the boob every hour. I just hope it's a weird little phase and he goes back to being able to sleep without it.

Hi non-sleepers, feed 1 here tonight after him going to sleep just before midnight so a nice wee stretch.... zzzzz

I too have the mid-feed nappy change issue as DS poos between 6-9 times per day and always during a feed, this however wakes him up and usually results in some puke too from lying him flat too soon after feeding - l try to keep him upright for a while first but like to get back to bed!

Feed #2 done.
He slept for 2.5 hours which is pretty good. Although I do recall (in a sleepy haze) that he was waking at one point but I just reached out my arm to rest it on him and he settled again. At least I didn't have to move for that.

It's post 5am so he's unlikely to settle for long now. I'm going to get some last minute kip if I can 😬

We've had another crappy night. First feed at 1.50 where he took one boob and then slept beside me until 3.30. Changed him and gave him all his decongestants etc then he took the other boob.

Couldn't get him to sleep propped up in my arms, he was asleep or almost asleep but kept thrashing and snorting so I put him in my nursing pillow beside me and he settled a bit better. Took me until 5am to get to sleep after all that and I got twenty minutes before he woke again.

After that I was having to settle him with the dummy every 30-40 minutes. He doesn't wake when (if) the dummy falls out but if he wakes and it isn't in then he needs it back.

Second feed of the night at 7am, so really that's a first morning feed and only one night feed (albeit in two parts).

If he would just sleep in between them we would be having a great time and I wouldn't be crying with tiredness by this time every day!!

Erm DS is still asleep..

Not sure if I should wake him or leave him. He's been so full of cold lately I wonder if he's sleeping it off (could of done that at night time)

I've put the washing on, put clothes away, made shortbread, now wrapping presents. It's all very odd.

Meepmoop sounds productive but you should've had a nap 😂

Jellybean, yeah I really should have but I kept thinking he's going to wake up in a minute so didn't get to invested in anything.

Let's hope it's a sign of things to come!

I got DS to sleep and tried to put him down for his naps about 15 times this afternoon. He woke up straight away except for one time but that only lasted about two minutes. Tried to shush pat but didn't work! So he's asleep on me now.

Meep I'm the same- never know how long the nap will last so rush about getting all the things done! Wow sounds like you were uber productive!

After a busy morning of shopping and present wrapping (does anyone else find it endless??) I've taken myself up to bed with DS and we've both been napping on and off. He's currently snuggled up on me like a little kitten, it's raining outside and I feel utterly content with life ok I also need the loo but we'll gloss over that

@Jellybean our LO's will get there eventually! They will sleep on their own one day...one day:)

DD has been really good today. We have been out shopping most of the day and I got my hair done. Plenty of zzz's in the pram.

One day @AMagdalena, one day... Feels like it will be when he is 12 at this rate. Just wish he wasn't so fussy about everything. DH is out this evening so I have had to get DS and myself ready for bed. He was screaming at the top of his lungs while I was getting him changed and into his non sleeping bag!! He's quiet now he is feeding. He just goes from 0-60 in one second! Doesn't help that my MIL has sent me a message today saying that she thinks we need to follow the paediatricians advice and do sleep training 😒

First post! feeling for you all. My boy hasn't slept well since he turned 3 months (5 months now). Most nights he'll only sleep 45 min by himself before refusing to be put down again. Co-sleeping life chose us, not the other way around. The rest of the night he wants to suck constantly (will not take a dummy) and be cuddled. I was able to sleep thru most of it until recently. Now he's starting to crawl so very wiggly in his sleep and trying climb over me and BITING! It's a sh*t way to be woken up. I hope this passes. The nights are long 😭

@JohnnysMumma ** Welcome to the thread!! Hopefully we can help make the nights nots so long for you

Now got into bed with DS, I've bought a Calpol plug in to help with his cough and breathing.
It seems very strong.

Feed #1
I hate this bed and my back is already aching. Ffs.

Feed 1 here. Much earlier than I'd like. Ho hum. Please please please go back in your cot with no fuss DS....

Last couple of nights' progress seems to have been a fluke. Sigh. Back to only sleeping on my chest, not in the crib or basket. Which means I can't sleep. Dammit.

Just finished feed #1 and Dd is wide awake. Doesn't look like I'm going to sleep anytime soon.

Ffs. He looked like he was going to settle in his cot...then started to thrash around and grunt. Tried the dummy, he rejected it. He's had his nappy changed. Big feed. So why won't he sleep??

What makes it more frustrating is that he was doing so well with sleeping and sleeping in his cot. Feels like I was lulled into a false sense of security and now I'm being punished for that. Irrational but I am so. Fucking. Tired. I don't know what to do and how to get him to sleep, and am feeling ill with lack of sleep.

Also fell out with DH tonight again He was stressed because he said he'd come back from work and had no time to himself. Now bear in mind that 1. This is nothing new for us both - pre mat leave I'd get in the door at 6 and wouldn't stop till DD bedtime and then only had a short time before bed. 2. My mum is staying so she's been making the dinner, doing most bathtimes and helping with both DC so that's a burden off and 3. All he had to do when he got in was sit with DD (happily watching Paw Patrol) and DS (who was fast asleep) while I ran around doing chores.

We then had a saga about losing the receipt for DD's new shoes, which don't fit. DH had gone to the shop with her and supervised the fitting of them (Clarks so they are usually pretty good) and had paid for them. So why is the receipt somehow my responsibility?? Normally I'd have been more on the ball and got it off him to save, but DS was 2 weeks old and I wasn't really functioning too well.

So.upshot is the argument where he complains about the no time to himself thing as apparently I have all day to do nothing. Which pissed me off because the past few days have been spent on chores and Christmas shopping/prep in between feeding sessions. Yes I've rested for a few hours but that's because I'm not bloody sleeping at night so I need to try and take it easy at least some of the day so I can function without killing myself or DS!!

Argh! Sorry for the long rant but I'm feeling close to breaking here...