The non-sleepers are still not sleeping

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New thread, guys!

Dd was up lots with a bad belly. At 3:30 she woke and I took her in with me and then she was awake and kicking me in the face at 5:30.

Kill me :(

Dd up after 3 hours then 2.5 then every 2 until 530. It was every hour before though so improvement... must keep positive or I'll go mad!

Forced again to start my day at 5:30h, and I had just been with her at 5 am... I don't really know anymore when my days start and finish... Multiple wakings, wakes up crying, have to give her breast a lot. Have to go to her 30/30 min most of the night. I did get 1 hour sleep from 1am to 2am. After 2am for some reason it always gets worse. Having moved her to her own room makes me spend all night going back and forth... I think I might have to start camping by her cot :(

Ahh the horrendous cough is back! I thought it was finally over. When will these colds end?!

Sorry there's been lots of crappy nights last night. DS was better than I was expecting although my expectations are very low

all round. Some bad nights there. Not good here either. And DS loves starting the day at 530! Think I must have somehow got him back to sleep after sleepily shoving a boob in his face as we woke again at 6.10. How said is it that I consider this a 'good' time??

Tiiiired today. Met a friend for a park walk (good) but then spoilt it all by getting myself a hot choc and massive brownie (bad). Despite the exhaustion, spirits not too bad. I've signed up for a buggy fit class, and am going to spend this afternoon chilling as much as DS will let me.

Sorry @Lizzle, no advice here on stopping co sleeping! We did it with DD for way too long. It's so hard.

Having a bit of a bad day. Thought I was doing ok until dd caught her foot in my hair and kicked and kicked and kicked until I sobbed. I couldn't get her to stay still to get her foot out! Head feels horrendous. Husband at work and isn't replying too much.

Is it normal for DS to wake up crying every time? After a nap or a long sleep, he always wakes up crying. He never wakes up settled and content. Do you think he's over tired? I had a awful night last night, tried controlled crying but think he has a cold so wasn't the best idea and he got himself so worked up, he was crying, I was crying. I felt awful for letting him get in that state. So he ended up in bed with me having cuddles and boob all night so he'll never go back in his cot tonight. Eurgh.
@FrozenMargarita17 that doesn't sound good :( hope you've had tea and cake since then!!

@Missonhartbaby my baby is the same. The majority of the time wakes up crying, which for me actually means she needs more sleep, but try to convince her of that... Sometimes she will wake up and babble. That's a good sign, that she feels rested.
I'm feeling horrible today. I think the tiredness is really getting to my heart. I have a heart condition and it tends to get worse when I feel really stressed or exhausted. Asked husband to come home on time and bathe baby, I don't think it's safe for me to do it. Can sleep deprivation actually kill? At least the dead have a deep rest. Sorry, dark humour.

It's half and half with my baby @Missonhartbaby she sometimes cries and other times is rolling about singing

No cake for me :( slimming world doesn't do cake !

@FrozenMargarita17 I applaud your cake refusing strength, after battling 2 non nappers all day I do not have that ability! Ate half a family size apple pie.... Whoops.

I'm so fed up already tonight, ds1 perfect angel, in bed by 6.45 no drama. Then the trouble starts with Ds2.
Fed him downstairs as usual, he fell asleep but before I could take him to bed the stupid cat fell of the windowsill and woke him up, so I had to spend half an hour shushing, rocking him. The whole time he's clawing at my face, he's fricking obsessed with my face its a nightmare.

3 attempts later he's in his bed, stayed for an hour and has just woke up screaming now. It's going to be a other long night 😩

Ahh I found out today I have an interview to do a different (better) job at work when I go back. How can I interview and get my brain to function on so little sleep? I just know DS will have a really bad night on Thursday!

Frozenmargarita I admire your willpower I ate so many cookies today

lizzlebizzle what is it with the face obsession? DS clawed me in the eye today. I hate it when I get him off to sleep and one of the dogs wakes him up

DS is coughing himself awake again and again. I can't even be bothered to try and sleep as he'll just wake up. He's been so poorly today and I feel bad being mad at him. There's just nothing I can do about it.
I've had both sets of grandparents at different times here today amusing him so it's not like I've been home all day by myself with him. I've even been to the bank/Vets without him (really felt like a treat).

I hope your DS has gone back to sleep now @lizzlebizzle33 and everyone else is having better nights.

Congratulations on the interview teal I hope you get a good nights sleep on Thursday.

No such luck here @Meepmoop he's just waking every 5 mins after I put him down, it's just awful. I can't leave him to cry, it will wake ds1 and I don't want to either.
I even broke and brought him into my bed and he still woke up and cried so in having to feed him again now.

I just don't know what's going on or what to do. If AH goes to him he just screams even louder so I'm all alone.

He's developed a new volume of screaming lately that's extra special!

Just finished watching a series on Netflix called The Let Down, has any one seen it? Made me feel a tad less bad about feeling like I'm a complete failure if a mother and that its all normal, shit but normal 😂

Well done @@frozen, I have zero will power, cake is the only thing getting me through the day!

Usual shenanigans here. Even worse than usual actually. Awake at 22.30 and he just won't go back to sleep. He keeps rubbing his eyes so hard he's damaging the skin ffs. Why does he fight it so much??

I stupidly thought tonight might be better, he took his first bottle of formula in ages! But I'm wondering if that's just made it worse and his stomach can't deal with it?

I'm getting so angry with him, it's scaring me. I just want and NEED to sleep. These nights where he doesn't even do a stretch at the start are the absolute worst.

I watched The Letdown for the first time today! Absolutely loved it! Felt so relevant to me, especially loved the smug mums group and sleep issues best series I've ever watched about parenthood...

@WhoAteAllthePercyPigs I long for the days when Ds would do a couple of hours stretch at the beginning of the night. He's just been awake for an hour, screaming, laughing, anything but sleep. So so Tangry. That fucking Ewan does fuck all, stupid £30 sheep!!!!

Absolutely loved The Letdown, so do relevant to me as well. I agree, best parenting series I've seen by far m. The end of the last episode was especially relatable.

Definitely need to watch the show everyone is recommending. Do you watch tv with the baby around? I feel bad if I put the tv on. We listened to some terrible 'acting with voices' on Radio 4 yesterday.

DS slept in his cot for the first time in months last night. Well.. this night. He woke up constantly tho which means the whole hauling self out of bed, to nursery, feed, transfer routine which is why I resorted to bed sharing. As someone else said, at least then we aren't getting out of bed every hour.

Teal congratulations on your interview. Sounds very impressive. I definitely do not have a high flying career to return to in September.

Oh and Lizzle, Euan! What a wasteman. Did fuck all for DS. I read an article about Baby temperaments on The Baby Sleep site and I wonder how many of our babies have the same personality: high energy, persistent, intense, sensitive, non-adaptive

Awful night. Our worst one for a long time. She's not well but not sure what it is. I took her in to bed with me at 11:30ish, She woke up at 3am roasting. Then 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 And now. I started to cry at about 6ish because she is also obsessed with my face and scratched me.

There's absolutely no way I'm taking her to her swimming lesson. I'll actually die.

I actually feel ill :(

At the moment my willpower is great, the desire to lose the weight is greater than the desire to eat nice things so that's good. I've lost 1.5 stone already!

That's amazing Frozen. How many more do you want to lose?

So sorry for your awful night and the scratching. No wonder you're in tears.

Why are they so obsessed with faces? She really pinches all day!

@justanotheruser18 I want to lose another 1 and a half stone, I will be in my healthy BMI then (phone tried to type bum!!) so I'll be pleased with that. I'm not expecting miracles because I have never been skinny past teen years and baby weight! I'm already feeling much more confident in myself so it's doing the trick!

Also @justanotheruser18 about the personality thing - my Dh is all of those things so I blame him because dd is obviously his double!!

Why do I read the threads from smug mums about how easy babies are. Drives me fucking potty! Step away, frozen.

@FrozenMargarita17 you are very strong! I've been seeing the great British bake off and I've been trying to bake something in the last week. Today I risked it. How stupid am I?! The cake was looking gorgeous, baby was so cranky and screaming and crying for bed, I knew the cake was undercooked but if I wouldn't take it out it would be burn by the time DD was asleep (in the morning I left a sauce reducing by the time I got back to it it was gone, all carbonised in the bottom of the pan. So I take the cake out, spend ages to put her to sleep, she sleeps 15 min!!! And of course the cake is underdone in the middle! So frustrated! So I've eaten 1/4 already! but you go girl! I'm just weak... I would love to see the scale to show me a 59,9kg but there's been months. Maybe when I'm back to work... I'll have a look at the show everyone is talking about.
In here I gave up last night and just put the mattress beside her cot. She still has a cold and I'm pretty sure she is teething. Im wondering when to start the sleep training again. Right now she rarely sleeps 1 hour in a row. I'm so freaking tired. Its scary. I have this multiple feelings, I love her but God she makes my life hard.