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The great non-sleepers - the sequel

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Jellybean2017 · 31/12/2017 09:07

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actino · 02/01/2018 23:41

Feed #1 here. Dd has been screaming her head off for the last two hours with what we think is bad wind, but we can't seem to get it out of her.

Going to try some colic drops, does anyone have any experience with Dentinox (MIL bought us some the other day)?

Zampa · 03/01/2018 00:17

@WhoAteAllthePercyPigs I sympathise with your vicious circle of sick! My clean bedding now has regurgitated milk on it (but not enough to warrant changing them again!).

DD2 is 6 weeks old and seems to have developed reflux (after a quick Google of symptoms). Cautious about putting her down to sleep as she seems to be in so much pain when horizontal. Going to attempt it now ...

Hope all of you get a decent rest tonight.

ew1990 · 03/01/2018 00:21

@actino I swear by dentinox, always have a bottle in

Nicellen · 03/01/2018 00:35

Baby hiccups?! Any quick fix. Baby currently wide awake after midnight feed with hiccups x

actino · 03/01/2018 00:42

Oh my god, she did not like the taste of that! There was so much, we just gave her a partial dose.

ew1990 · 03/01/2018 00:47

@actino are you BF?

NinaMarieP · 03/01/2018 00:56

Morning all... first feed tonight at 12.40. Last night was 2.30. Clearly I have been eased into doing all the night feeds alone with one good night and now we're back to business as usual.

actino · 03/01/2018 00:57

Yes, I'm breastfeeding.

ew1990 · 03/01/2018 01:04

Ahh I'm FF so I just put the dose in a bottle. I tried to syringe it into her mouth once and she spat it all over me, DD had 8oz at 11 and she's still wide awake 🙄🙄

actino · 03/01/2018 01:15

Yeah, that would be much easier, she spit it up at me.

Mixing it in with formula probably also dilutes the dill (her breath reeks of dill now)

HashtagTired · 03/01/2018 01:36

So just been woken for feed #1. Normally dh has ds downstairs but he went out tonight so I took him to bed with me. I've done that a few times over the last week and it's interesting to see his sleeping pattern over the whole night, rather than just from midnight.
He seems to want to sleep around 8pm ish after a feed. Then he normally wakes an hour later for a top up but then sleeps until midnight ish. Tonight, for example, he has just woken me up after sleeping for 4 hours 18 minutes. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Laugh that he can sleep for that long between feeds when he wants to.
Cry because he doesn't often want to! It only seems to be for the first part of the night. Sigh.

I'll take the positives and be happy that he (and I) had a good chunk of sleep.

Although we are both suffering from an awful cough. It's hard to cough quietly!!

A lot to catch up on here.

@sleepycat13 I go back in September. I've taken 12months leave (well, almost 13). If I go back any earlier I'll have childcare problems over the summer holidays with two of them to think about!

@AMagdalena interesting development. I hope that you get the answers you need, and that it's an easily resolvable issue as others have said. Fingers crossed for you.

@Nicellen baby hiccups - I always shove a boob in his mouth and feed him out of it.

WhoAteAllthePercyPigs · 03/01/2018 02:56

We're on what seems to be our usual pattern here. DS woke at 1.30 for first feed, now wide awake, squirming, crying and shouting out. Only thing that soothes him is vigorous bouncing. He's already woke DD once so I need to keep him quiet. I just wish he'd chill and at least let me get some rest if not sleep! I think that this being awake for hours is worse than lots of wake ups or at least it feels like it right now??

He's 9 weeks on Friday. I am just hoping this is a stage that will pass....

sleepycat13 · 03/01/2018 03:15

@actino didn't find dentinox to be that helpful really. how old is your little one?

@HashtagTired that's a nice age to gonbsck to work. hopefully lo will have sussed the sleeping by then for you. I go back in June when ds is 9 months. I'm desperately hoping the same!!! not sure how I could function at work currently.

bad night here. ds went down at 10.30. first wake at 12.30 then again at 2.30 so with feeding in between we have clocked 3 hours of sleep so far. have tried lieing down feeding with the intention of co sleeping to max on the sleep hours but have just given up as ds was just fidgeting about and struggling to stay latched. my head hurts. I just want to sleep

Meepmoop · 03/01/2018 03:22

DS seems to be waiting for me to just fall asleep to then wake up. Now on the 4th time of this, it's worse than him keeping me up wide awake.

He keeps fidgeting and thrashing himself awake, I'm not sure how I can stop him doing it though

sleepycat13 · 03/01/2018 03:33

managed to get him down in the moses basket bum down (it works!!). light off. lay down. 5 mins later he wakes up. groan. he is back on the boob now and just suckling practically asleep. I wish be would take a dummy

also @HashtagTired I know what you mean about laughing or crying. normal pattern for us is now up to stretch of 4 hours from 10pm on a good night followed by hourly wakes after that. not tonight though. if he can do 4 hours why won't he bloody do it all the time.

HashtagTired · 03/01/2018 03:34

@sleepycat13 oh yes, I do hope the sleep situation is consistently good by then! Who knows!! My short term memory is notably shit. I literally don't remember a thing anymore. I have had to download apps on my phone to help my remember stuff and have an alarm in my phone for everything! - including to remember picking dd up from school. I don't think I'd ever forget to do that, but I just don't trust myself!!

@Meepmoop that really is what I define to be torture. Just lying down, beginning to relax and just start to drift off when Ds wakes. I would rather be kept awake than be teased with sleep like that!

HashtagTired · 03/01/2018 03:43

Feed #2 here.
Pretty much on schedule. Nappy change (with pil, night I add!). Remember me saying he would poo once a week?? Not any more! That'll be his first poo today but he had at least 2 yesterday. They are much smaller than before, but it does comfort me that he's more regular. That's gotta be better, right? - better out than in?!

Between feed 1 and 2 we had an almighty storm pass through. I heard the wind pick up (love being tucked up in bed with nowhere to go listening to the wind and rain) but I was nervous the wind would wake Ds or even dd. But then can the rain, which turned to hail and was very very noisy. I lay still hoping it wouldn't wake anyone, then cane the thunder and lightening and heavier hail. It passed quite quickly, the hail turned to rain and now the wind has died down again.
Ds and dd slept through it. I quite enjoyed listening to it and I think it woke dh downstairs as I heard him get up to get a drink.

He slept for 2 hours which wasn't exactly fantastic, although could have been worse. He did sleep through a storm and did have a poo in his nappy so glad he woke really, so I could change him.
I just need to get him off to sleep quickly as the nearer to 5 am we get, the less likely he will settle.

WhoAteAllthePercyPigs · 03/01/2018 03:48

Still awake here!! I don't think I'll settle even if he does, I'm way too wound up now.

Hashtag we had the storm too although nowhere near as bad as it sounds for you!

I'm feeling really low with this sleep situation. Doesn't help that it's January either, I just see a year ahead of no sleep. I had two years of it with DD and suspect DS is going to be the same so I can't even console myself that it will get better soon.

Hey ho. Just got to keep trudging on and get through it somehow!

WhoAteAllthePercyPigs · 03/01/2018 03:49

Oh and Hashtag I'd say regularity is a good thing when it comes to poo! I always feel relieved when DS does a poo...even if it means night changes...

WhoAteAllthePercyPigs · 03/01/2018 04:55

Got him asleep at 4.10 in his cot. Hes just woken up.

For fuck sake.

Feeding him and then he's sleeping on me.

Catscatsandmorecats · 03/01/2018 05:07

Hashtagtired I hope you're asleep now!

Whoateallthepercypigs it may be worth speaking to your GP, there might be some reflux there. DS2 was very much like that but has got better as he's got older (and I've got better about keeping him upright after a feed).

Did feed no.3 40 minutes ago, I was struggling with the required sitting up for ten minutes after so read another thread that made me cross and now I'm wide awake anticipating DH getting up as he's off early for work today and DS1 waking super early which he seems to be doing at the moment. I should really try and get whatever sleep I can now, it's going to be full on when everyone gets up Sad

NinaMarieP · 03/01/2018 05:09

Plus side tonight: LO slept in his own bed between feeds. Down side: we've gone back to what will be three feeds a night.

I can't have my cake and eat it too, clearly!

He also did an almighty poo AFTER I had changed his nappy and switched boobs so the first feed we were up for more than an hour. And he was sick on the bed while pooping. Little monster!

actino · 03/01/2018 05:32

Feed #2 here. It took us 2 hours to get her to sleep after feed#1, but this does mean that if she had gone to sleep easily I could have gotten 4.5-5 hours of sleep. Even the prospect of that much sleep is encouraging.

Catscatsandmorecats · 03/01/2018 06:23

Was just dozing off at 5.45 when DH's alarm went off. Then DS1 needed a poo, just sorted that and now DS2 has woken for his get up feed. 6am isn't a bad wake up time, but it is when you've been awake since 3.50 and only had two two hour blocks before that. I will need all the Brew today.

Actino I am impressed by your PMA!

actino · 03/01/2018 06:35

I'll take what I can get Smile

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