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

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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 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 😂

@MummyCuddlesSolveEverything yes when I get annoyed at him for telling us to shush while he's on he phone by saying 'we live here!!' He says 'wellll I won't be able to work from home any more' like it's a BAD thing??

frozenmargaritas definitely not a bad thing! We don't get shushed but he does close the door now to block out the noise.

@MummyCuddlesSolveEverything the thing is I can't stop her from making noise! She's a 7 month old who is excitable !

frozenmargaritas She should be able to play and make as much noise as she wants. Hope he realises soon (or stops working from home)

Sooo DD is really not happy with something that I'm eating but I've not been able to figure out what. Have today made the somewhat drastic decision to go soy, dairy & wheat free for a couple of months then gradually add back in one at a time to try & find the culprit. This should be fun.. not! Wish me luck I'm going to need it 😨

I'm hoping once I find the villainous food, it might help sort her sleep out if she's not waking herself up straining to poop/fart. Poor bubba it's horrible watching her in the early hours desperate to sleep but not able to.

Ladies would you consider buying noise cancelling headphones for when they work from home, then just ignoring them if they ask you to do anything, act like they're not there!

Bloody menfolk & their martyrdom. Some of them need a freaky Friday experience to give them a tiny clue what it's like doing this 24 7!

@DiscombobulatedWomble I'm off for a weekend away in April so I'm sure he will be in for a shock. Although I do wonder whether she will be alright or have zero naps and no actual food.. probably dressed in something weird when I get back.. haha.

Well after an hour long battle DS has finally closed his eyes. How long will they stay shut for nobody knows.

In exciting news we've booked 4 nights away in a lodge in April. I'm very excited, just me, DH and DS in a lodge in the woods. We have our own private hot tub to!

@mummycuddles
“I think being at home makes them think they are doing more when really it's an excuse to do less”
Hits the nail on the head. He thinks he’s doing so much because he’s at home but actually he’s doing squat.....last time he stuck around for bath time with the babies, he popped into the shower while I bathed the kids, dressed, fed the baby, and read a story to DD1 and settled her... he didn’t do anything except be in the bathroom at the same time as us (he was in the shower, kids in the bath)... and yet somehow he thinks he did bathtjme that evening.....

@meepmoop
Sounds lovely!!! Enjoy
@frozenmargarita
My mantra at the end of the bad day is borrowed from Katie Kirby “everyone is fed and nobody is dead” enjoy your weekend away and even if OH doesn’t feed her or nap her for a day she will be fine....

Happy sleeps everyone!

Just got ds2 down now but I just heard his dummy fall out so we will see how long that lasts. That's the curse of the dummy, it's helpful to soothe them and help them nod off but you never know what's gonna happen when it falls out 😩

@lizzlebizzle33 argh that noise haunts me. Sometimes when I'm napping next to her, I hear it but it's still in! Paranoia.

Ha ha frozen I do the same!

I always say it's amazing how loud and panicking inducing the sound of a dummy falling one inch into a soft mattress can be!!

I also hallucinate the sound of it falling,
I think sometimes he must move and the 'handle?' clicks and makes me think it's fallen out. He's generally OK when it comes out though, I only need to replace it if he wasn't deeply asleep enough and that's not that often.

He has woken for his new usual 10pm feed so I'm hoping he will sleep through for the third night in a row!

Last night was decent, but tonight, DD kept waking up between 8-10pm! 🙄
Doesn't bind well for the rest of the night and I need some sleep after a busy day. Plus, I have MIL coming over in the morning, then a plumber (thanks for bursting a pipe, sink), so busy again!

DH has been an AH today. Who cares he bought be flowers for Women's Day when he whinged all day?! He didn't have to do a thing after work besides playing with DD for 30mins while I had a bath, but that seemed like too much! 😑

Is it just my DD who is an obsessive thumb sucker on here?

Anyone else on here with an older baby/toddler that still doesn’t sleep? Mine likes to tease us by doing 6 hours straight twice in a row every couple of months then regressing back to 2 or 3 wakeups after we’ve gone to bed... He’s 18 months, was nightweaned from me 6 nearly 6 months ago and now has a cup of milk he can reach in his cot if he wants it (I know, we need to get rid of that for his teeth) and goes down to sleep in his cot (with some shhing and patting). Despite this he still wakes at least once before we are asleep (could be several times) then at least twice in the night - he just wants to be patted again and sometimes handed his milk but if you try to leave the room before he’s solidly asleep the wailing starts again, so it’s still 20 minutes a time.
I was hoping to have a small age gap, that boat has already sailed and I’m so tired and grumpy that he’s going to be an only child at this rate!

Dd has been awake for an hour. Every time I creep out she's awake again. I am absolutely shattered and fucking furious at everything.

This is absolutely killing me.

Oh dear @FrozenMargarita17 can you set up camp in her room just so you can get some sleep. It's so awful when you spend all that time ticking and shushing then they just wake up when you put them down.

Ds2 has just done 3 hours in his cot! It may not sound much but that is mega for me!! He's in with me now as it was too cold to sit up feeding him, I'll try and get him back in his cot after but will probably regret it.

I had been trying to leave her in the cot and get her back off. She would go and as soon as I'd got comfy in my bed again she was up. Repeat x4. Now it's nearly 2 hours. I sobbed next to her cot for a good half hour and my DH is still fast asleep. She just won't go to sleep. I really don't want to break and take her in the spare bedroom - I never get any sleep that way.

For about 10 days my ds completely changed personality, wouldn’t sleep in his pram, was fussy and clingy, could cry for no apparent reason and then the weird part - he’d only poo once or max twice a day (this part I really liked as we’d quite often have poo explosions, and I was forever soaking his clothes to remove stubborn poo stains). Well this morning I woke up to a smell that I can only describe as a smell of rotten eggs and in total we’ve had 5 stinky and leaking poos, 2 had blood in the nappies, 1 nappy was very very slimy and one was particularly runny. I’ve just had to change ds twice now and change outfit plus thoroughly wash him due to a 💩 he was screaming the house down but eventually settled and stopped fighting. Some of you might remember that back in January and early February I posted about blood in ds’ nappies and seeing a rubbish doctor. I didn’t totally cut out dairy but cut down and looking at what I’ve had over the last couple of days blue cheese, milk and chocolate has sneaked back into my diet so I do wonder if there is a connection? Well this time round I’m totally cutting the dairy and I’ve booked into see another doctor tomorrow. Ds seems to be getting back to normal personality wise plus he slept for three hours in his pram today while I was out shopping which he also used to do. Additionally he can now rollover from his tummy to his back😊 but the poos... I was so happy when he started pooing only once or twice a day so hopefully we can get back to that as it can’t be much fun for him either. Sorry I’ll stop rambling on now. Hoping we’ll get back in bed soon.

Sorry frozen that's rubbish, my AH would be the same, completely oblivious. I know it's not ideal but I would bring her in the spare room if it carries on, I know you don't get any sleep that way but at least you can lie down, and hopefully dd will sleep and not be cranky all day tomorrow.

@Sakura03 sorry your dealing with poomaggedon over there, it does sound like that's what's been bothering him, hopefully he will get back to normal now. And he's rolling over too, usually with ds1 a developmental milestone like that meant disruptive sleep for a few days until they nailed it!

Hope you all get some sleep.x

Oh Frozen I’m sorry you’re having a hard time with your little sleep fighter, it can be so so tough when they won’t sleep and we’re exhausted. Take some deep breaths- I know it sounds ridiculous but it helped me when ds wouldn’t sleep and I was struggling. Don’t clock watch if you can help it and just tell yourself that this shall pass.

Thank you @Sakura03 and @lizzlebizzle33 it's been a terrible week. When I get upset or sad my Dh tends to try and ignore it and it makes it worse.

She started to really screech every time I left so I sat outside with the door open and she went but I've just heard her again.

I'm wide awake and so upset. My SIL keeps saying 'pick a routine and stick to it' but what do you do when your baby doesn't want to?!? It's so easy for people who have sleepers to comment and say ' just...' whatever as if it's easy to do.

2.5 hours up now. I am going a bit mad!!