Non-sleepers unite...

[Jellybean2017]

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 😂

Sweating even...
Although swearing too perhaps if you get a sleep thief

The swearing is more permanent than the sweating, at least in my case!

Can I join? My dd is 5. I’m very tired.

I just lolled at the sweating/swearing utterlyconfused NinamarieP and nearly woke the baby.

Cheshiremana yep, I had the hot and cold with the sweats too, it was gross, literally pools of swat between my boobs. It didn't last long though.

Not a great start here tonight, on feed number 1 already, at least it coincided with me coming to bed so I wasn't woken.

UtterlyConfused111 😂 I loved that!!! It’s so true😂😉
Oh you too have got family in Denmark Catscatsandmorecats, I want my ds to be bilingual, he’s got a Danish cousin who is 7 months older than him and I hope they will become close despite living in different countries.
user how did your night go? Did you get another 3 hrs sleep? In total I had about 5 hours sleep but we were up 4 times🙈💤

Went for a long country walk with my mum and ds in the pram today. Also did a bit of shopping, bought ds a thin woolly hat.

So... went to bed at 11pm (we’re an hour ahead) as ds had been fast asleep since 10.30pm, however, the little monkey decided to wake up again at 11.30pm... I’m hoping he’ll go back to sleep soon.

Morning everyone.
I should totally be asleep but I'm wide awake. Ds doesn't sleep for more than 2 hours at night (manages longer in the day time. Sigh). He's been asleep for an hour so I'm almost afraid to turn in now because I only have an hour to get sleepy then Fall asleep.

It is actual torture to be woken up in the early few mins of drifting off. And he just looks so peaceful sleeping in the crib next to me. Just gorgeous.

But, it's pancake day tomorrow! Hurrah!

Who is having pancakes for breakfast??

Pancake day, yay! I bought some ready made mix as I know DS won't let me make some. He's so clingy at the moment, leap 5 is pretty intense.

He slept for a four hour stretch last night, and a total of three wake ups, that was nice. But tonight we are already on wake up three.

What are you planning for your pancakes @Jellybean2017 ?

I'm thinking bananas and maple syrup.

I might even cook up some crispy bacon 🥓

I feel I'm constantly in a leap. Didn't really notice the 4 month leap.

I think we are entering leap 5 now. I seem to remember my phone kindly notifying me of this yesterday!

I lost track of time. D Shad just woken up, early I thought. But 1h55 mins so pretty much on schedule!

He's straining for a poo.

Does anyone else offer a finger of support for dc to squeeze hold of when straining? Just me?!

@hashtag I do the finger thing, also offer words of encouragement, although not when she surprise poops like earlier all over everything whilst changing her :l

I am far more excited about pancake day than Valentine's Day. Although DH did offer to cook steaks, & I snuck a tub of b&J phish food in the online shop for it mmmm

My son is 9months
I'm new here lol
All he does is eat and eat!! Has 5 bottles a day (including night feed!!) 2x8oz and 3 x 5oz plus jar food and fruit pouches also biscuits and snacks m

Still wakes up at 2/3am every night for a bottle ! 8oz! With rusk in !
Sometimes he sleeps through ( once in a blue moon haha )

Am I not filling him up before bed ? Is that why he's still waking at daft o'clock ? He has jar food about 6 ish then his 8ozbottle at round 7

Love the finger of support hashtag I hope it does the trick.

Sakura sadly, having Danish cousins didn't help me with the language but they are much younger and we didn't spend much time together when they were younger. If you're going to spend plenty of time with your relatives that'll be great, what a brilliant start in life to speak two languages.

We are having the worst night in ages, DS2 has been up every hour or less, now DS1 is up too and has followed me back to bed as DS2 needed a feed. So currently we're all in our bed, and all awake, it's going to be a long few hours til morning

I thought it was really really not recommended to put anything other than milk in a bottle. (Risk of choking, making it take most energy to suck down the thicker milk etc).

Plus rusks are pretty crappy nutritionally speaking, aren't they?

Milk is the most calorific food you can give a baby so filling his stomach with rusk will probably just mean he wants more milk to get the calories he needs. Plus it's super normal for babies to need night feeds up to a year (and sometimes longer, gulp!!)

I often sit my LO upright if he's straining,
seems to help.

For the first time in a long while the 3am nappy change required a complete change. And I nearly didn't bother to check but for him doing a poo, but he was soaked through even his bag was wet. Poor little fella.
All clean and dry now. I love the feeling of fresh sheets, so maybe he'll sleep until 7am now. Ha! I wish.

Can't wait for tonight to be over

Bad night also. Both DC not sleeping. DD keeps on making the most unearthly wailing noise. DH of course deaf to it so up to me to comfort. DS restless and congested. Like Lizzle, I need this night to be over.

Luckily today isn't too busy. DS has his second set of jabs, then we are going to take it easy.

@jbramley tbh 2 /3am waking sounds not too bad if that's the only time he wakes? Bearing in mind many of us have hourly wakers on this thread Definitely second concerns about rusk in the bottle - it's a choking hazard and empty calories, he'll get what he needs from milk. Could it be something else waking him if he's having that much to eat and drink?

Oh and I'll be having nutella on my pancakes - can't wait!

Both DS with colds here too, ds1 waking with random crying and ds2 just not sleeping at all.

I've tried saline and snuffle baby but he still cries every time I try to put him down.

Relegated us to the sofa so we don't wake da1 up again but it's cold down here 😩

@WhoAteAllthePercyPigs I forgot it was pancake day! Much better than Valentine's Day IMO

We found that if we don't give him rusk he wakes up 2 or 3 times in night lol :/ he's had rusk in bottle ever since he was maybe 4/5 months old
I know the health visitor "wouldn't recommend it" like everything else ! Haha she doesn't recommend anything

Brought ds2 into bed with me so I could try and get some kind of rest myself and he just projectile vomited all over me, oh god I hate it when they're ill, I just wish I could be ill for them instead, would probably be easier.

Maybe the rusk sweetens the milk for him haha

Anybody else's LO sleep on pillows for extra cushioning ?

Yeah HVs love to make life difficult by not recommending dangerous practices to parents. 2-3 wake ups would have been perfectly normal at 4/5 months and beyond.

Pillows aren't recommended under 12m as they are a suffocation hazard.

We are stuck in or rubbish routine of waking hourly after the feed, though tonight had the extra joy of thrashing for about an hour in the middle too and a pre 7am screaming wake up for no discernible reason.

@hashtagtired I will be having a jar of Nutella on my pancakes 😋

Would've been a good night here if DS hadn't decided to be awake between 4am and 5am again. Why!!!!! 😫