The great non-sleepers... continued (again 😴)

[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 six 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 😂

Oh no @meep what a horrible night. Can you rest today?

@meepmoop get yourself some earplugs! Seriously! They're a sanity saver. My sleep stealer is so loud, they're the only way we can possibly take shifts.

Depressingly, I think most of the other babies mentioned are younger than he is! Shout out to the sleep deprived parents in the over 6 months club?!!

Absolutely shattered. I couldn't sleep til about 2. we had people over so didn't get to go to bed until late. Then she kept making noises but not fully waking so I was awake waiting to see if she was going to cry or not. Then my touch lamp turned on at 1.45 and creeped me out. Fell asleep and then she was crying at 4. Up at 7. I am dead. I have tired rage. Everything is upsetting me.

A bleary eyed good morning to you all, sounds like s mixed bunch @Meepmoop I think you win the worst night prize though.

Not great here, ds1 is ill again, cough and conjunctivitis m, he was crying in the night, thankfully AH DH saw to him but I was still awake every time.
Ds2 did a couple of 1 hours stints in his cot but got really restless and I just couldn't be bothered anymore so he came in with me.
I've kicked DH to the couch so at least we had more space, still achey though this morning.

In so fed up of winter and somebody always being ill!

And still no snow here!

@NinaMarieP your DH sounds like an angel, are you sure he is real?

Oh dear @FrozenMargarita17 you gotten the Tangry!
Can you get any sneaky naps in today? Do you even have to get up right now?x

So DS woke up at his normal time of 7.30 I was hoping he was going to sleep in after being up all night but no. I managed a couple hours in the chair but I am not feeling alive this morning. DH isn't working for once so I won't have to suffer alone today. I'll be sneaking in some naps.

I had problems with DS rolling and waking himself up so now I put him in his cot on his stomach as that's how he prefers to sleep. He's big enough that he will cry or flip himself if he needs to.

I'm hoping my shopping makes it today. I have been baking though (made yesterday) so have banana cake and flapjack to tide us over if it doesn't

Had to get up to make a bottle. It's freezing down here. I reckon she might go for her morning nap in a minute so hopefully I'll get another hour.

Yesterday my mum was here for lunch and when she woke up from her nap she said she's have her for an hour so I could sleep. Except it took me ages to go and then DH called me halfway through when I'd gone. I was fuuuurious!!!

@meepmoop
horrible night, sounds terrible. I hope you get a chance to nap today...:
@ninamarie
Are you SURE he’s real? Lol
@lizzlebizzle
Yup, me too. Tired of never ending winter and colds. We have just gotten over colds and then dd1 brought home a tummy bug, which took her a week to get over and now DD2 is in the midst of. I think it’s why her sleep has been even more sh1t than usual

Haven't been on for a bit,DS2 is so terrible with his cough and cold I have no hands free and am.just bumbling through overnight. Then just as I thought I might get an easier night with DH doing everything barring feeding, DS1 and I have both come down with a tummy bug on top of the cold and cough. I spent the night either being ill, looking after DS1 being ill, clearing up, feeding DS2 and about half an hour laying down on the floor of DS1'S room so he could get some sleep. I am.hot and cold, everything hurts, paracetamol won't touch it, I can't eat, I can't sleep. I am lucky though, DH is being brilliant and doing everything with both kids barring feeding DS2 (I wish he'd take a bottle). I am going to stay in bed as long as possible, if we're not any better tonight I need all the reserves I can muster.

Lizzlebizzle and utterlyconfused I am with you on wanting the virus season to be over

@Catscatsandmorecats I'm sure you have but have you tried minbie bottle teats? A friend found they were the only ones hers would take?

Sorry for the crap nights, ds has another tooth happening and a cold

catscatsandmorecats that sounds horrendous, well done for carrying on and getting through it...I know there isn't really any other choice. I have a bottle refuser too, have given up for now (fed up wasting time and milk expressing) and will try him with cup at 6months.

Wondering if ds is getting ill, he was really sick yesterday evening, he's doing a lot more dirty nappies than usual and is already napping. All unusual for him.

Yes guys he is real.

If it helps he often forgets to pull the frills out on the nappy, manages to use every bath towel in the house so there's none left when I go to wash them, does all the dishes and moans about it but doesn't do that good a job on them... haha he's not perfect by any means but he has been an equal parent despite me breastfeeding.

@NinaMarieP the towels must be a man thing, somehow mine uses 3 for a shower? What's that about? He doesn't even have any hair.
And as for the dishes , he is happy to do them but the cutlery and baking trays/saucepans suddenly become invisible, or he leaves them to "soak" and I end up doing them because I can't fill the kettle without dipping it in greasy water.

DH isn't well today, he has a migraine which is making him sick, I feel awful but I'm struggling to be sympathetic. Mainly because he stayed up til 2.30 playing games, drank beer and ate Doritos while I was trying to claw at some sleep.

Just had to make him get out of bed so I could have it to put ds2 down for a nap so he's had to go downstairs to deal with ds1, who I may have just got a big box of noisy building blocks out for..... Oops

Sod's law I post about how good he is and then we have a row.

I'm sitting expressing, an hour or to after missing a feed is the only time I get a decent quantity. Baby's rolling around the floor and isn't happy but all I can do is talk to him. The. He goes for my OH's PlayStation which is lying on the floor and I shout him through to rescue it. But all he does is shut the disc tray/turn it off/move LO away.

Of course he goes straight for it again and I tell OH this. And he started raging that 'he's trying to do stuff' ie the dishes and I'm 'sitting doing nothing'. When I remind him
I'm expressing I'm told I could do that another time.

Seriously he has no fucking clue sometimes. Like I manage to parent and do household tasks while I'm home alone. I provide all the milk so even if he bottle feeds him
I've put the work in first!!

That was supposed to say and hour or SO, I do know the difference between too/to/two honest.

I don't think anyone here would judge any grammar mistakes anyway 😂

Posting in semi-coherent sentences is about all we should expect of ourselves. But I'm a bit of a grammar nerd and I hate making mistakes 😂😂

@ninamarie
He is a saint. Mine doesn’t know which end of a nappy is which....don’t think he’s changed one on DD2 yet!

Ok, so last night I was desperate for sleep and I didn’t understand why she regressed so much so I did the following

1. Extra layer of clothes
2. Dose of calpol at 2pm in case teething
3. Two very good bottles at 630pm and 1030pm (she’s been dropping the 1030pm recently)
4. (Don’t judge) a couple of spoons of baby rice at lunch time (she absolutely loved it)

And guess what? She slept through till 7am this morning! (Well one wake up but back to sleep in 5 minutes)

Woo hoo (Although I’m slightly scared that she hasn’t pood yet though, maybe the food?)

So which item did it?! I’m tempted to repeat all of the above.....

@ninamarie
That was before I saw your post! Hope it’s all ok soon....
I’ve started talking to mine so the great silence of 2018 is over. He’s gone for a nap again....

emberblu yes, sadly he refuses anything that isn't boob, it takes about 5 minutes of very careful syringing to get him to have even calpol! He's not even fussed with any of the bits of food we've let him play with yet but he's not quite 6 months so I'm not worrying yet. I'm doing the same as you mummycuddlessolveeverything really hoping once he gets the hang of a sippy cup and I can try expressing again.

NinamarieP what a wally! They really just don't understand about boobs and milk supply etc.

I tried to eat, it was a bad plan. So I'm in bed for the day I think. DH is doing some excellent parenting with two poorly boys.

Everything is fine thanks.

He gave the kitchen a very thorough cleaning and tidied the bedroom while LO took a nap on me, and after that we were too busy being angry at Tesco for cancelling our delivery without telling us to continue arguing with each other.

Utterly you might never know, I'd repeat the whole thing and live in hope!

DH has done an amazing job today whilst I've been in bed but bedtime isn't going brilliantly. I have to do stories and stay with DS1 until he goes to sleep, I have got up feeling dreadful to do it. Despite a big feed just before bath DS2 is now screaming with DH and I can do nothing about it. I hate this. It's my own fault, I let DS1 have a nap while I read to him earlier as DH had gone for supplies. I can't bear it, the baby doesn't understand why I need to stay in here and not be with him, and usually he sleeps well once he's down but his cough and cold are just dreadful. He needs his mum but so does DS1, who gets very frightened if I go, and it undoes all the progress we've made.

That sounds really rough @Catscatsandmorecats I hope they settle for you soon.

I'm doing the bedtime feed, I am hoping and praying for a better night. I'll settle for hourly wake ups.

Awww @catscatsandmorecats
I hope you’re ok. Hang in there. It’s absolutely horrible when you’re sick and so are they. But it will pass, and hopefully soon. And it’s awful being divided between both babies, but they will both be ok. Even if one of them is crying for a bit while you tend to the other - it’s ok! It happens with two and no need to beat yourself up; they will both be fine.