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 😂

Thank you @justanotheruser18 and @FrozenMargarita17 for making me feel better. It's hard not to question yourself when you talk to other mums and it seems like theirs all do things your doesn't.

@onone85 my DS loves say hello to the sun, I often play/sing it to calm him down.

I sat in a baby group this morning and a mother of a 2 month old was boasting that her baby sleeps through since birth. I just smiled to myself. (I did have a terrible internal cackle at the thought of the 4 month regression teehee)

They were the people I couldn't stand at groups. I just ignore it now. I'm pretty pleased at how far I've come from the really dark days of PND. A comment like that (whether true or not) would have floored me for a week before.

2 wake ups since 8pm. DH sitting up late so I get a tiny bit of respite.

@WhoAteAllthePercyPigs mine seems to have taken a sinister turn...

Went to drop in clinic today to get DS weighed and speak with HV about blocked duct.

She told me to go to breast feeding drop in at the hospital.

They want to send me for a scan!

Seriously freaking out

She said if it was a blocked milk duct it would/should have gone in 48 hours

@cheshiremama89 that's so scary. When are you going for a scan?

I hope it's nothing x

Is there anything better than your child doing a massive poo and waking themselves up minutes after you managed to get them to sleep? Followed by them weeing all over themselves mid nappy change and then getting so overexcited by the change of clothes that you have no hope of settling them? He woke up at 11, I'll be lucky to be back in bed by one 😴😴😴😴

Cheshiremama89 I'm sure everything is ok but must be scary. Fingers crossed for you xx

Sorry to hear that #cheshire. Although I'm surprised as i was told blocked ducts can last quote a few days? Think it's very unlikely to be something sinister and probably something to do with BF? When is the scan?

Awful night here. DS up every hour then just would not settle. I've been awake since 4.30. My head is pounding, I am so fed up. Meant to be going to a playdate at my friend's church but may have to skip it. Not least because last time I was there, a mum told me her son has slept through the night since he was 2 weeks old and it was all dye to her implementing a strict routine. Thrtes a real chance i may end up punching Miss Gina Ford so I'll stay put she also tried to recruit me to her pyramid scheme but that's another story

When will this regression be over???

Ooft, 're read that, so many typos! Sorry, eyes super stingy and blurry.

Can you believe it...now DS decides he wants to sleep! Just as we need to get up in 30 mins for the nursery run. Tough luck son...

frozen I hate that about groups we go to, the boasting about good sleepers then offering me tips. As if the fact my baby doesn't sleep isn't because sometimes babies don't sleep, but because I've not tried hard enough or don't know what I'm doing, and their babies sleep because they are better mums. This happened last week at ds's swimming class, everyone started saying he has a feed sleep association (he does feed to sleep but imo that's not a problem), that perhaps my milk isn't enough for him or he wouldn't wake up (he's gone from 50th to 90th percentile, he's getting more than enough) and lots of other advice that I didn't want. I left feeling awful.

Cheshire I hope things go ok at the hospital.

Not a great night but not as bad as I thought it would be. Dh got home in a mood last not sure why, he just huffed around tidying (he never tidies!) and getting annoyed so I went to bed.

Cheshiremama89 I had mine for 3 weeks and then suddenly one day I went to massage it and the lump was gone! So please don't worry too much.

Hey all, @cheshiremama hope the scan goes okay. I have also been told they last longer than two days so hopefully it's nothing to worry about.

Crap night here. Ds went down at 6.30 but woke at 8. Fed back to sleep and he went back down but we had coslept from 9.45 as he was up again and I was exhausted. Think I'm getting a cold, got a sore throat. Not sure if Ds is going through separation anxiety or something. I went to a baby group yesterday. One mum was telling us about how she puts her baby on the potty when he looks like he needs a poo and he goes in there... Is that a thing?! He's 8 months old...

jellybean an 8month old on the potty?! I've heard of it, think it's called elimination communication, but not sure why anyone would do it or if it works. Surely it's just making more work for yourself.

@cheshiremama
Don’t worry too much - I hope it’s all fine. I had a blocked duct too for a week, it just took time to disappear.

Crap night here. After dream feed at 11, Dd2 was up 109, 124,133, 250, 320, 438, 539, and finally woke up at 639. DD2 was up at 6am. I don’t know what the fuck is going on anymore

Bad night here too. Ds wouldn’t settle until just after 11 pm, he cat napped on me from about 9.30 pm but every time I tried transferring him to his carrycot he’d wake. He woke up after an hour, then after 1/2 hour... he was so noisy, he was crying in his sleep, and I couldn’t work out if he had bad dreams, tummy ache, teething- he actually didn’t look in pain but my goodness it went on and on and on. I’d rock him about for a bit and he’d stop but eventually he’d wake himself up... it meant I didn’t sleep much and quality of sleep was poor. I really needed a good night as I’m taking him on a flight tonight to visit my mum again in Denmark... at 6 am when I had the bed to myself and he’d woken yet again I took him into bed with me and we slept to 8 am which actually is quite good as lately ds has started the day at 6.30-7 am. Oh this sleep regression is relentless...

Thanks everyone

Getting a call tomorrow with appointment date, I am sure it's a blocked duct!

I woke with it after having a long sleep (6 hours) while DH did some bottle feeds on the weekend.

I'm continuing to feed on that side and massaging when I can.

Reassuring to hear that they can last some time!

@mummycuddles oh I hate it when they like in with the tips! My personal bugbear is 'your milk isn't enough.' Er...actually, my body knows exactly what to supply, ever heard of a thing called a growth spurt, you know, the necessary thing that makes babies, erm, grow?? Someone on my FB put a post about should she feed her 3 month son baby rice because he's 'obviously' hungry and waking at night. Cue lots of 'well you know your baby best hun' replies and someone who'd fed their baby egg custard at 12 weeks?!

If people ask how DS is sleeping I just shrug and say 'like you'd expect a 4 month baby to!' I hate this pressure of if they sleep through they are 'good'. No. Babies need to wake for food! It's normal! Sure, I rant on here and am craving a good night of sleep...but this is what I signed up for and am expecting to happen.

Rant over! Sorry. Tangry!

@Cheshiremama blocked ducts definitely last a while! Had mine for 5 days! Bit annoyed that they've scared you, obvs always best to be on safe side with breast lumps but to me it seems very obvious it's a bf thing!

Sorry to hear about all the rough nights. I went for a long walk and feel better for the fresh air. Then undid my good work by treating myself to a brownie and latte, oh well.

@sakura sounds like we are in the same sleep regression boat!

I’m so tired.... when will it end!!

WhoAteAllthePercyPigs it might be mean but I think if they have another they should get a baby that doesn't sleep(and we should all get ones that sleep!). That way they will realise that a lot of it is just luck not superior parenting on their part.
Babies are meant to wake up, even if we don't like it. Egg custard?!

I really want an egg custard right now.

I think DH might get sent on a shop trip after tea 😄

So tangry and it isn't even bedtime. I need cake or egg custard too!!

I'd love a custard tart about now! On day 8 of no chocolate

We've had a few rough nights, something wakes DS at 2ish, teeth? Milkman? Then he won't go back to sleep until 5ish so tired

I'm doing slimming world so no chocolate or egg tarts for me :(

Dd has thrown up all over her bed, her reflux is playing up because she's had hiccups all day bless her.

No idea what happened last night, I don't actually remember bringing her in the spare room but I woke up there !!

People always ask 'does she sleep?'

And now I just say 'nope!'

Grin and bear it lol.

Ok bracing for another night
I know it doesn’t help but... just want to moan. I’m so fecking tired!