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?

for us

ginger 6 hours yay
effie it is def just a phase and will pass soon. big hug X
meg lo so cute

Haven't read the thread (will do) but can I join in?

DD is 21 months and sleep at night time is not one of her specialities.

Luckily DS (3.5) is rather better than her otherwise I would be completely frazzled .

Welcome Idris

We are all suffering from lack of sleep here, though things are (slowly) getting better for some of us. Just not me at the moment (sigh)

bleerrrgh, wakings at 2, 3, 4.30 and 6 for the day. feel like i go no sleep after 2.
so its back to the old days for us. knew it was too good to last. teeth? yep. that's the only excuse i can think of in my tired state. yay for 6 hours ginger - amazing.
and i totally understand the mum separation anxiety thing - so normal!

amber awake from 2ish. that's a killer.
welcome Idris. am glad you're here as your ds is officially the oldest now instead of mine
most other SIFTW babies are 0-10 months (my ds is 17m on 25th btw)and has only slept through the night 3 times in his life

Thank you for the welcome .

DD has slept through very few times in her life [yawn].

Will give vague idea of what our nights are like but seeing as I'm at work, should really be doing that .

Yay Ginger! How I long for a six-hour stretch of sleep...

for bad nights. Ours wasn't great either, though at least the first waking wasn't til 10ish so we got to have dinner in peace. Fed every couple of hours with a couple of stirrings in between, then awake from 6ish.

Hi Idris

morning all!!

welcome idris

meg, i agree monkey music looks fab and they've got one where i am!!! your lo, ahhhhhhhh, what a cutie

ginger - for your good night!!!!!

tam - lo will be fine, but i can completely empathise with that feeling. i left ds overnight at a really early age, one because he was on the bottle and two because he was sleeping through. once you do it once, it will be easier. go on, treat yourself, you deserve a night off

slim aka EP sorry for your bad night.

our night was manageable but far from brilliant. have woken up feeling irritable and a bit blue, despite going to bed at 9pm........hang on, thats probably it, i've had too much sleep

amber for your night

idris - work too? arrgghhhh

actually i'm in today for a half day, am looking forward to a break tho

welcome idris, but sorry you are here (though i see tamdin is very glad!)

the feeding is driving me nuts. i think he woke up so many times close together in the morning because he wouldn't eat properly when he woke at 2 (after i fed him at 9, so surely should have been hungry), then the other wakings tried to force him to eat, had a little bit but not too interested. wanted to play. but cried when i left him alone. sigh. i'm not sure how to manage the food thing. i have no idea what he needs/wants. is so fussy about it all the time.

cute picture meg. i'm slowly adding some more as well.
slim, sorry you had a rough night, i can't get my head around your new name yet, so will just call you slim.

I'm with you there Amber: DS was being v lazy about feeding but yelling when I put him own

growth spurt?

i wonder what other excuses i can find in that bag? i don't think its growth spurt, surely then he'd be wanting to eat ...

now he is awake from 45 min nap, not nearly enough. here i go with my bag again ...

phew, back asleep. time for a shower i believe. its swimming today. will be good, but feel soooo tired.

enjoy the swimming amber - i could do with some of that too. just floating weightlessly in a nice warm pool

DStalking to himslef in the cot - will hopefully nod off soon. His naps have been up the spout recently, whcih does not help

hope he falls asleep slim.

i think i'm heading out for coffee - need it desperately!

Hi everyone,

Welcome Idris - nice to talk to you, but not so nice that you find yourself here.

ginger! Although I bet pre-baby you never thought you'd consider 6 hours sleep a good stretch.

Amber - sounds like a horrid night. Where do you get the energy to go swimming? EP too - do you have work today as well?

Meg - he's adorable!

No complaints here - LO eventually settled at 8 (3rd time of asking), then up at 11, 4, 6.30, and for the day at 7.30.

Bags: am at home (supposed to be on a course but a bit of a childcare clash). DS still asleep (sh!) and will take him out when he wakes up (outside, that is )

Bags, has your LO got over waking for the dummy? I'm still reluctant to leave it in while DS sleeps, but maybe it would help him not wake so often (unless he wakes every time it falls out).

EP - glad you're getting a little break.

Meg - the dummy obsession comes and goes. She still needs it to go to sleep, apart from when in the buggy, and we do use it to resettle her when she wakes properly. She's taken to spitting it out after about 20-30mins, and then drifting back off. But I do still get the odd day when she wants it all the time.

One (miniscule) advantage of using it for sleep is that if she wakes and she's not hungry we can usually replug the dummy and she'll drift off in 5 mins. But at the same time it haunts me that she might be waking for the dummy.

Nap prisoner here (why can't she be as predictable during the night as she is during the day). Two wakings again, not great given we had got down to one waking. Her second tooth is emerging, she was only up briefly fed and put down again. DH at 6.15am saying I shouldn't feed her to sleep but try shhing her - easier said than done when you are knackered and its 3am. Didn't push it for him to try as at the moment she is obviously in pain. I will give her calpol tonight.

I know I have to give up BF at a year so only 4.5 months to go and I feel so sad thinking about stopping - no periods yet and we need to try for another baby as I am not a spring chicken. Still can't imagine leaving her for a night though, when I stop BF I suppose I have no excuse...

Amber, I had the same problem at about the same time and it will settle down soon. Once weaning is established it becomes more predictable, well it did in our case. We had periods when I felt she wasn't taking enough but by 71/2 - 8 months we'd fallen into a more predictable pattern. That's also around the time I night weaned because I felt pretty certain that she wasn't waking for hunger. It worked and was painless so I feel confident I was right on that score. I still have no idea why she wakes tho but I think it's comfort more than anything. (Obviously teeth aside)

She still has days where she hardly eats anything but I try not to worry about it. I mean they're supposed to know what they need right?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
(phew that's better)
am so tired today. ds had been yawning his head off from 9ish and I was undecided whether to take him to playgroup but i did because it was the last one until sept. I left at 11.30 as ds looked ready to drop. got home and he was asleep by 12 ( I curled up on the sofa for a little nap) and he woke at 12.37!!!! feel like total crap now as i had been jsut about to drift off when he woke up. anyone else find that is torture!?
Also he normally sleeps for 2 hours (3 on a good day)and i really count on it to get things done. Hope today was a one off.
am going to try putting him down in 10 mins. he never sleeps in teh afternoon though so that'll prob cock tonight up