Non-sleepers unite...

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New thread for night (and daytime!) chatter for those awake more than they'd like with a non sleeping baby/child 😊

My DS is five months. First baby likely to be only baby if I don't start getting more sleep He is a nap and sleep fighter but incredibly cute so I choose to forgive him 😂

Sorry to here that meepmoop still sat up holding Ds. He's getting some peaceful sleep at least. I'm weirdly awake...prob too much caffeine. Dh is asleep so he can take over if I get too tired. Too scared to attempt put down, Ds just seems so sad 😞

@Emberblu sorry your having a rubbish time to.

My DH went bowling at 8pm and has not yet appeared, he's going to London today to watch the football and is getting picked up at 5am. If I've had no proper sleep by then I'm going to be co sleeping. Hope he returns soon

Oh no so you've got no respite tomorrow😦 I wish we could cosleep but I know he's unputdownable tonight! My arm hurts

Nope no respite for me, he won't be back until the evening after DS has gone bed. I'm going wedding dress shopping on Sunday for my friend so I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully he'll sleep tonight.

Will he sleep if you lie on your side with him sleeping on your arm. Sometimes DS won't lie next to me but if I have his head on my arm and my other arm next to him he will

meepmoop and emberblu sorry you are having rubbish nights, I hope you get some sleep soon.

Utterlyconfused sounds familiar!

It seems it takes hardcore vaccinations to get DS2 to sleep, he just did four and a half hours, pity I wasn't in bed that whole time. He woke with a raging temperature though so have given calpol, fed and been up with him for the last hour. He has cooled off a bit now and is back down but fitful Sonu can't drift off just yet. I'd like a wee but I don't want to disturb either of them!

Sadly no, he tends to just roll himself around and slap me in the face a lot😅 managed to put him in his cot but he's in an awkward position with his blanket tucked under him but im not risking moving it! Plus he'll be awake for a feed in a minute 😂

Oh the flappy arms emberblu, not easy!

DS1 woke crying before I could get back off to sleep, lord knows why, I'm in here now and he's drifting back off ok. I think it's because we had the being read to sleep problem again. I'm going to have to be stricter at bedtime. It's like he can't remember going off to sleep and gets all out of sorts.

At least I can go for a wee in a minute :)

Ladies this thread just cracked me up so I thought I would share.. not altogether helpful as my silent laughing jiggled baby awake so take that as a warning! Not entirely sure why it occurred to OP to even try this but nevermind..

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3164192-If-you-were-feeding-a-baby-lying-down

Can't get back to sleep now, thanks discombobulatedwomble that'll entertain me at least :)

Hi everyone sounds like everyone is having a time of it, noticed a couple of you mention DH's going out etc

I know it's all relative and when they have to go to work are tired too but I make sure mon-thurs night that DH gets a solid 5hrs every night and I'm downstairs with DS in his Moses as due to reflux he doesn't sleep long periods sleeps better in our arms
So then I feel weekends is when I should be given a bit more rest right?!

Yesterday I was downstairs from 1:30am to swap over with DH and amazingly DS remained sleeping so I thought right I'm gona rest on the sofa until he wakes I fell asleep and DS didn't unsettle and start sounding irritated that he wanted a feed until 4am which is the longest he's gone so I was awake from 4am yesterday DH got home from work and I said right you keep DS amused I'm going for a bath, we then had food and it got to 9:30pm DS fallen asleep in my arms I started feeling tired next thing I know DH was making a den on the floor and said right I'm gona have a sleep here. Hour and half later I'm waking him up asking for him to bloody wake up so I can get some rest!

Usually DH does 10pm until 1am weekdays and then wknds until 2am usually will have been a nappy change and a feed typically DS didn't wake for this which in some ways is great but that means grumpier baby when he wakes which was 40mins later bless him was so hungry he had dry lips.

Now have a passed out broken baby in my arms.

I'm not ready for morning at all. I managed to get a couple hours of non broken sleep but feel awful. I'm also aching all over from actually doing exercise yesterday and falling asleep in the nursery chair. I'm feeling very sorry for myself.

However not as awful as DH who made an appearance at 1.30am and then had to get up. He was not a very happy bunny, I may have laughed at him.

@Emberblu did you manage to get any sleep?

meepmoop put him in his cot at about 1... He was stirring by 4 so it was feed then some gymnastics from me an dh to get him to sleep. In cot at half 5.. Awake a 6.30 😖 put off getting up til 7 since he was happy enough.but not much sleep for me and so I'm in the worse mood. Currently on nap1, want to put him down and get rest but don't see it going well....

Well done you exercising! Getting dressed is about my biggest accomplishment on that front 😅

Sorry to hear some are having some shit nights...
Traveling on my own with ds went well. As soon as we got seated on the plane ds did a loud stinky 💩 and we were sat in a queue for take off so it took even longer before I could get up to change him. We had a big bloke sitting next to us so the space was tight and when we got back from the toilet he’d found another seat😁 👍 so we could spread out a bit.
I only managed a 40 minutes nap in the afternoon and in total I’ve had about 4.5 hours sleep during the night, so will try and get some more sleep today/tonight.
I’ve got my nephew’s pram so my mum and I can take ds for a long walk today, Id better wrap up warm as it’s -3 degrees outside.
What plans have you all got for the weekend?

@discombulatedwobble
That made me laugh out loud and wake up the baby. I am going to try!

@utterly I did warn you! let us know how you get on!

We had double the usual wake ups last night so not entirely sure what's going on there but I'm not happy about it! Didn't even get the usual long(ish) chunk at the start of the night so I'm zombie womble today yawn

@WhoAteAllThePercyPigs Well, that's the thing. DD is now a very settled, content baby (apart from when she gets moody), but she's not in any pain or discomfort. She hardly ever cries now. In fact, I can't remember the last time she did. It's just the blood hounting me...😐

We had an ok night
Well, when I went upstairs, that is.
I managed to sneak away from DD when she fell asleep and she woke after 30 mins twice So didn't get much time away from her. We had our usual 2 wake ups after that.
Hope you've been getting some more sleep!

@Sakura a big stinky poo 💩 was my biggest worry when flying. Glad it went ok in the end!

Anybody else's dh/dp insist on sighing loudly and constantly as if everything's an effort and they're exhausted? I'm so close to throwing something at him! Being tired makes me angry

DS was awake for over five hours with no nap this morning 🙈🙈🙈😱😱😱

DS was napping in his bouncy chair - not in me!! - and i was just about to sit down with a cuppa and a book when DD went and woke him

DS is asleep in his cot and I'm downstairs with Dominoes pizza. It may be cold as DS had a meltdown while i was trying to eat it so I decided it was bedtime but it's goood

He's woken up screaming but I've had half hour of peace. Expecting DH's return shortly

@meepmoop
Even cold dominoes is something! Between the two of them I just realised I didn’t have breakfast or lunch today. Meh. DH is cooking dinner - he may be rubbish with the babies but he cooks well and he mostly cleans up after he cooks.

@emberblu
DH has been getting up at 6am this last week to go to work (new job). He has been dying of tiredness this entire weekend and is sighing away... it’s probably really mean of me but I too want to smack him. He’s still at least getting sleep till 6am; he’s acting as if everything is such a HUGE effort (I can hear him cooking downstairs and throwing things around and sighing) why? I could only dream of sleep till 6am!

@whoateallthepercypigs
After bath time I managed to settle DD2 while dd1 was distracted by telly. As I put her down and tiptoed away (I do this more carefully than I would put down an activated nuclear missile) dd1 let out a giant high pitched shriek like a train...,

Haha yes! I feel bad cos dh parents with me so well most of the time but lo settles much faster with me so night times are usually mine. If i mention I feel exhausted he says 'if its any consolation I know how you feel'... Um no lol you had 8 hours sleep, I've had 4 broken ones. But I think they actually believe they are getting as little sleep as us bless their cotton socks 😂

Much better so far tonight, touch wood. We shall see...

Evening guys I'm seeing a theme of DH's irritating us I totally know THE sigh!

Everything bring a massive chore and it's like you haven't done s fraction of what I have on less sleep and I don't say a word!

DS is 3 months tomorrow and right now is the only 3Rd attempt of getting him to sleep in Moses places in next to me crib in our room as opposed to him sleeping in our arms in shifts downstairs.

He fell asleep way earlier tonight at 7pm so we stayed up until 9pm to eat dnd watch tv and then 9pm migrated upstairs

DS stayed asleep in Moses and as soon as DH head hit pillow he was asleep I just watched DS for like 45mins he had a good 2hrs before stirring for a feed bless him his lips were so dry how can we avoid that?