Sleep is for the Weak! we got too big?!!??!?!!??

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can you believe that?! we got too big?
we should surely get an award from Mumsnet?

i know amber totally agree. my bf was around most days (her dc's school age) so i had someone to chat to but she's opened her own business recntly and i really miss her.
Sometimes i have felt that maybe mn makes me over think the whole thing too much but then can't imagine not knowing how you all are

Amber you laugh with your DH? We're to busy arguing about who is more tired.

Tam, I agree. Sometimes feel like I'm wasting my maternity leave on here but you're all my friends and support so I need my daily dose

slim, yeah i've got BF course today, so midday nap will be whatever i can get him to take in sling - oh dear! but will be fun for me.

i guess over the last week DH and i have been getting a bit more sleep, so able to laugh , actually we're not too bad except when i'm REALLY tired.

MN keeps me sane while we try to do naps at home. all is quiet upstairs, so is promising .... might sneak up for a peak.

ginger who will look after d when you go back to work? any news on that job interview you went for?

Sorry for everyone's bad night.
Slim - glad you DS is okay.
Amber - I know how you feel about having someone at home. I feel a bit guilty, but a
part of me is looking forward to going back to work in Sept - for a break!

My LO was part of the "let's give 'em a night to remember" summit. Didn't sleep til nine, then up at 2, and pretty much hourly from hen on. DH had to leave for work at 5.30am today , so she thought she'd get up too. Ginger - I also feel like I've already done a day's work. Is it wrong to be thinking "only 9 more hours 'til bedtime...."?

yeah, i didn't have any plans to go back to work in the near future, but maybe i'll have to make some! . no actually, i really want to give the SAHM thing a good go, its pretty challenging at times, but also quite rewarding.

bags, i think we have done a days work already, lets take the rest of the day off!

we had MIL and FIL around for a few weeks, which is why DH took last week off. they were staying in hotel nearby and i invited them to come around at 6am to look after LO but they never took me up on it surprisingly.

it suddenly feels awfully quiet around here now DH is at work and PILs have gone. though looking forward to cooking dinner for just 2, rather than 4 again (and feeling the need to impress with food to prove yes, i am looking after your son )

i'm so lazy, haven't got in the shower yet. just been on MN and talking to my mum on the phone. and drinking tea. LO is still sleeping, must be an hour or so. my left boob is about to burst though, so hopefully he will agree to eat when he wakes up.

ok, ramble over (maybe)

morning lovely ladies and for the crappola nights and general fed upness going round

booby, well done for getting to the the docs. hope you start to feel brighter soon.

slim - hope you manage to get some rest at work

tam - send the little monster to me, i'll sort him out

ginger - i'm sorry, but lol at you and dh, sounds like me and dp!!!!!

bags - i'm with you on the countdown til bedtime, its terrible isnt it?

meg - hourly wakings? aaarrrggghhh, thats just wrong hope you manage to get some rest today

amber, how much longer have you got on the peer supporter course. do you take lo with you? ours are allowed to come with us, i think, altho i'm hoping they'll put on a creche if she carries on like this a.m

our night mixed, most of it a knackered blur,.... i just want some chuffing sleep

Tibs, i think there's 4 weeks left or something. they have a creche, but i just take LO with me. i think the teacher has a hard time though as a lot of us bring our LOs, and they're not always quiet.

Had major nap meltdown this am, perhaps he was overtired from the crap night (me too). Screamed for 25 mins, slept for 10 mins then awake again.

Since then has had two half-hour naps on me (old skool), can't face fight to get him in cot again!

Went to hv for weigh-in today (15lb 8oz so def eating enough, even if mostly at night!). She reckons maybe it's teething...

amber - i can imagine!

meg - sorry you've had a hard morning, hope the rest of the day improves. dont worry about the sleeping on you thing, dd did that every naptime for the 1st couple of months btw, your lo is nearly as heavy as my dd and shes 3 times older! she is a titch tho!

tam hows your day going? hope its improved . dd acting like a right so and so, can we swap?!

Tibsy our afternoon has been better, thanks - he went down for a cot nap this afternoon without a fuss, we even had to wake him up to get him to Monkey Music as he overran his 30-min nap slot! (Typical to do it when we've got somewhere to go... I was half tempted to leave him, but he loves his Monkey Music and so do we.)

Now he is sound asleep in his car seat on the floor next to me, having dozed off on the way home.

Hope you are all having nice days...

Sorry for some of the bad nights, we had two night wakings second one was definitely teeth. Seems good compared to some of you but I've been there and hoping not to go back (who am I kidding).

Anybody else held prisoner with the nap routine during the day. DD naps 8.30/9.30 start for up to 1.5 hours and the same at 12.30/1pm with lunch at 11.30 it feels I'm trapped in doors often until 2.30pm. Feels like I have to turn down lunch invites to get DD to sleep. No daytime sleep = awful nights. Stopped going to one mothers group as always interfered with her naps...

Tam, I've got a childminder sorted but already feeling very about it. No news on the interview yet but he did say he wants to make me an offer just waiting for HR to approve the part time hours.

Meg, I love the sound of Monkey music. What is it?

Tibsy, my LO has been a nightmare all day and hardly slept but actually looks under the weather this evening. Early bed me thinks.

tapster, am prisoner as well until 1.30pm, sigh. some days like today i break out though and let ds's naps go to s**t. not so good for the nights though is it. sigh.

Tapster that is one advantage of 1/2hr naps, they are v easy to work around!

Ginger you can find out about Monkey Music here - basically silly songs with clapping, actions, maracas etc. Lots of fun!

hi all (have had 2 G&T's so all is well)
ds slept for 2.5 hours this morning and then we went to visit a friend who has ds aged 2 so that gave me a break for an hour while they played and we moaned! after that i took him to the park for an hour (the sun finally came out... think the powers that be must have felt sorry for me )so quite a good day all in all after our disastrous start.
went to bed very easily tonight too

Have a new worry now.... (i know i even piss myself off!)I have arranged to leave ds for his first ever over nighter with my mum and dad on fri night so dh and i can go out with friends for some food/drinks and have a lie in.
I know he's nearly 17 months old and most people have left their babies with relatives/babysitters overnight from no age but to me I'm worrying already about hislittle face when he wakes up in the night (which of course he'll do) and i'm not there
anyway won't bore you all again with MY separation anxiety as i know i need to get over it and i'll be glad i did.
wishing us all good nights

(Slim here btw. Can you tell I'm bored?)

Tam: I'm sure your LO will be fine (as will you)

Ginger: am interviewing a cm on Thursday for a couple of days a week as I go up to 4 days at the end of the month. She was recommended by a friend so hope it goes OK. I think DS is actually at an age now where he's enjoy it - he loves watching older kids run around

DS was a pain to get to sleep but is still zizzing as far as I can tell...

I can't imagine leaving DS with anyone... I keep putting off giving him a bottle 'cause that's my excuse to have to stay with him all the time! I even get cross sometimes when long-suffering DH suggests I take a walk by myself to get a quick break

Fingers crossed that our LOs stay settled tonight. DS is flailing around at the mo but touch wood hasn't woken yet, mind you we did dose him with Calpol before bedtime in case it is teething.

Oh, and have put a pic on my profile page...

Love the pic Meg

morning
slim you're messing with my mind man
ok night here.
bed at 7
woke at 2 (bottle and into bed with us)
woke at 5 (wanted to get up )
woke at 6.15 for the day

these early starts are a new thing. hoping they pass!

Tam, you've said exactly what I was trying to explain to my childless friend yesterday about heir little faces when they wake up without you. It's the same face that haunts me when I think of leaving her with a cm. I'm sure that once you've done it once you'll find it easier tho. Good luck i'll be thinking of you.

Meg, I've also done exactly as you say, getting annoyed with DH for even suggesting taking her off my hands. I'm starting to accept it a bit now tho but I think that all comes with stopping bf'ing and them geting more mobile and more independent. I was really possesive about other people feeding her either which is why I wouldn't express when I had other people staying (especially in laws)

EP, I'd just got used to Slim, don't do this to me ahhhh I have such limited brain capacity at the moment

We did however have a reasonable night. DD went from 11 to 5 in with me and I feel relatively human. We did get up at 5.30 tho so I guess I'll be wanting to sleep in about an hour but 6 hours? that's the most I've had in one go since she was born.

Oh dear, another bad night foris - lots of wakings and taking ages to settle - hopefully will pass soon...

The early morning wakings are a killer, aren't they? DS refusing to stay in his cot past about 4am and then just wants to feed so I can't sleep.