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 😂

Some of these 'd' ps are just beyond a joke!

Can I suggest using the terms AP and AH? Where A stands for arsehole?

Mine's far from perfect but he does nappies without thanks and has learned to shower/get ready for work on his lateshift mornings while I go back to bed.

@xxrealistmumxx @WhoAteAllthePercyPigs
Thanks both, yes he is only 4 weeks.

Hoping the snow melts soon! Serious cabin fever

Haven't left the house since Monday 🙈 definitely getting cabin fever, although I'm loving our new home.

DS did a 5 hr 30 min stint of sleep last night! Only thing was he was up for the day at 5.30... Can't have it all though 😊

@ninamariep love the AP/AH acronyms 😂

We've had the first proper snow in probably 12 years today so I have enjoyed seeing it come down and settle. I couldn't go out in it because of DS so when DH came home I may have gone out in the garden and stomped around like a child. It's going to rain tonight so it'll all be gone in the morning.

Currently doing bedtime feed, hope everyone has a good night

DS went down to sleep about an hour ago. Heard him crying and came in to a mega poo situation. Three layers had to be replaced 🙈 feeding him to resettle. DH is out. Had been hoping for an hours peace in front of the TV with the cats but looks like I will probably just go straight to bed once I've resettled DS.

DD is nearly asleep.

I might be a bit absent over the next few days or so.
I have found out my dear friend has taken her own life. Only God knows why because no one seems to have any idea at all.

Oh @AMagdalena I'm so sorry :( thinking of you

@amagdelena
I’m so sorry to hear that! That’s really terrible, must be so hard to deal with.
@jellybean
Well done baby jellybean 5hr30 woo hoo. Mine has gone backward all week; 2.5hrs tops. Think she might be teething.
@ninamarie and @mummycuddles
Re AH: we spoke via text today finally, and this is a winner “this hard done by attitude is wearing a little thin, why can’t you sleep during the day?” (I have a 2 year old who doesn’t nap during the day in addition to LO). What does one say? I didn’t bother to replying.

Hoping for good nights for everyone!

Wow it sounds like everyone is having a tough time with the snow, none at all here, but we hardly ever get snow by the sea.

@AMagdalena I'm so sorry to hear that, I hope you manage to get some sleep tonight.
Ds2 is down in his own bed but I know it won't last, I think I'm going to stick to putting him back in there tonight though after last nights co sleeping didn't help me get any rest at all, we did have a lovely long nap together this afternoon though.

@UtterlyConfused111 What an absolute knob to say that to you, you did well not to reply, I don't think I would have been able to hold my shit together if my AH said that!

Hoping for an easy night for us all, so we're not all too Tangry tomorrow.xxxx

Oh @AMagdalena I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. Really hope you're ok, and can get some sleep tonight

AMagdalena I'm so sorry about your friend, it's such a difficult way to lose someone.

utterlyconfused I can't believe he said that! Well done on not replying, I don't think I could have stayed calm. My ah's quote of the day is 'what, you want more than half an hour?' when we -briefly- talked about me getting a bit of time to myself for the first time in weeks. In the end I didn't get anytime to myself, I didn't want to ask and it be like he'd done me a massive favour. Does that make sense or am I just being a bit of a martyr? Me and ds had a lovely afternoon anyway.

Hope you all have a good night. Ds is up for the first time already....he was screaming because he rolled onto his front and couldn't get back.

I've been swaddling DS since he was born. Went on a 'happiest baby on the block' course with DD and they strongly recommended a swaddle cloth. So we got it for her and now using it for DS. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten the hassle of weaning her OFF it. Tried tonight by putting DS in his sleeping bag (looked so cute in it!) and no swaddle. He went to sleep happily enough...but an hour later woke himself with flailing arms. So I've given in and put the bloody swaddle back on! So annoying, I wish I'd never started it!

So..anyone got any tips on weaning their DC off the swaddle? I guess we managed it with DD but i think it was hard work.

And to anyone with a new baby considering purchasing a swaddle cloth/ wrap, I wouldn't recommend it. Great for a while sure, but they get very used to it and you're left in my position! I only did it this time because I was so desperate for sleep...hmm, just like last time then!

amagdalena so sorry to hear about your friend, what an awful shock, I hope you are getting some rest.

cheshiremama89 Hang in there and try and sleep whenever your lo goes down for a sleep.
realistmum hope you’re feeling better. I don’t think I’ve had mastitis but last week I had excruciating pain in my right boob, sort of a huge lump with lots of little lumps and it hurt like hell. I kept massaging the area and offered the boob to my ds as much as I could (he’d just started feeding loads again so that was kind of handy given the circumstances) and within a couple of days it cleared up. Didn’t feel feverish or anything but not quite sure what it was?
AMagdalena sorry to hear about your friend
Last night was okay, from midnight he did 4 hrs then 2 x 1,5. We went to have lunch at Byron with one of my friends and finished off with a hot chocolate in Hotel Chocolat OMG that was so delicious (and ver rich, it had chocolate flavoured whipped cream on top). Ds was okay, I fed him in the restaurant and he got a little cranky in hotel chocolat but it was bearable.
Yesterday I went to the cinema, they do a big scream viewing which was very popular and I watched I, Tonya. It would have been nice to ha e shared the experience with someone but I enjoyed it and ds was so good, he just had a look around, fed and slept. Right, must get back to bed as ds has been asleep on me for about 15 minutes.

@AMagdalena such terrible news I'm so sorry

@UtterlyConfused111 I think I would have barricaded the doors so he couldn't get in if mine had dared say that

I have a very wriggly baby tonight not sure what's going on there Percy sorry can't be of any help because ours hated swaddling. I've no idea if this would work but could you try putting his arms inside the sleeping bag? Still a bit of restriction to hopefully stop him from waking, but loose enough to hopefully wean him off? Or, not sure which swaddle you have but the one we tried I would have been able to have one arm inside, 1 outside, so do 1 arm out at a time?

@sakura choc flavoured whipped cream?? What are you doing to me

Sounds like you had a blocked milk duct. I had that a while back, was painful but temporary. Mastitis must be horrible, poor you @realistmum.

Would love to see I, Tonya, any good? Forgot about the baby cinema thing, we have one here so going to look into that.

So, I think we might be entering the foothills of the four month sleep regression . Another short period asleep. Oh well, just gotta roll my sleeves up and get in with it!

Thanks @discombobulatedwomble yeah I'll try the one arm thing. Annoyed with myself cos it's another sleep crutch (along with the sleepyhead, but I'm so not ready to part with that just yet!)

And onwards we go...

@sakura that hot chocolate sounds incredible 😍

We are on feed 2. I'm so cold, want to be back in bed! DS is asleep so just waiting to transfer...

So my DC (definitely stands for devil children tonight) are tag teaming to make sure I get no sleep. Settled DS into the cot for about the fiftieth time...DD starts wailing. Go in to settle her, come back to room.. DS starts wailing FFS. You know some nights when you just think 'why did I have kids??' I love them both so very much. But I am so very sick of getting no sleep and feeling like it is all on me (AH asleep, of course).

And another snow day in tomorrow with them both. Running out of fun activities, it is going to have to be the telly on...

And there goes DD again..

I'm here...
DH sweetly thought keeping DS asleep for 2 hours 6-8 to let me nap was doing me a favour.

Big mistake

2 hrs and 40 minutes sleep just felt like 5 minutes how strange...
WhoAteAllthePercyPigs I thought the film I, Tonya was good, yeah I only just found out about the baby cinema thing about a week ago. I’d like to go and watch Ladybird if it’s still on next week.
We have just secured a nursery place for ds, I’m glad it’s sorted but also dreading it as I know it’s going to be hard for ME😪 I’m sure he’ll love it though which is the main thing. Now trying to arrange ds’ christening for the end of May bank holiday.

Arggg.. ds keeps waking up after 10 minutes what is that about??? He goes down in cot asleep and this time he woke and started cooing and gurgling to himself until he got fed up and started whining... the other two times he just moaned straight away.
Is 15 weeks (nearly 16 weeks) too young to transfer to sleeping in cot? He’s still in his carrycot which is getting a bit snug for him as he wiggles a lot, he’s a very noisy sleeper. We would of course have the cot in with us.

I second the swaddling only one arm as a transition. We did that for a week and then no swaddle and he adapted fairly quickly.

Pleased to see the uptake on my new acronyms 😁 but it would be really nice if these blokes were not royally earning their status as arseholes of course.

Sorry to hear so many people are having tough nights. It's not going well here either, started with waking up every 2 hours and now waking every hour.

ninamariep ah sums things up perfectly at the moment I wish it wasn't like that though. He wasn't like this at all before ds came, not sure what's happened...perhaps he just doesn't realise how much everything has changed because nothing's really changed for him. Will wake him up tomorrow morning when ds gets up, fed up of going downstairs and being able to hear him still snoring.

@Sakura03 we used a cot in our bedroom from the start. They were smaller ones than his one in the nursery though. I found that once he got bigger he would wake up from hitting the sides.

I'm wide awake. The weather is really loud and DH phone keeps going off as people are telling him they can't get in/ have burst pipes. The cat also keeps meowing and scratching the carpet as he wants to go out except he doesn't want to go out when I open the door. I think he thinks it'll be
different each time I open it.

DS keeps coughing so I expect he will wake up crying in a minute