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?

cheers amber - fingers crossed for you too!

We converted the Bugaboo (ours is a Gecko) this afternoon and tried DS in it, but he did look a little scrunched - didn't realise the stroller bit hasn't got a firm back support. So think we will leave it a couple more weeks, and just use the baby carrier whenever practical (he loves that).

DS has only had three 30-min naps today, hope that doesn't muck up the night too much! Just gone to bed, so we'll see. Here's hoping for good nights all round.

OH MY GOD TIBS NOOOOOOO. (Obviously I mean yessssssssssssss) but please don't leave me Honestly, that's very inspiring. What did you do?

Hi everyone. We've had a couple of goodish evenings but very early starts.

She's actually sitting playing at my feet at the mo after a mega meltdown. I really wanted to see the end of the concert on the telly so brought her down because couldn't be bothered to wait in her room until she was back to sleep. She however is shouting and squeeling having a ball so don't think she'll be easy to settle when we do go to bed.

Morning all,

Hope you all had good nights!

Sorry for your dd's meltdown last night Ginger. I often bring dd back into the sitting room and watch a DVD if she's really going for it - figure there's no point both of us being miserable in the dark.

Crappy night here. Lost count of the amount of times she was up and grizzling for the dummy. She's also taken to "singing" for 30 mins after a feed, rather than going back to sleep.

I hate nights like tha, because this morning I feel really short-tempered and irritated by her, and it's not her fault . I'm going to throw some clothes on and take her for a walk - she loves the buggy, and a bit of fresh air and quality time with my ipod might calm me down.

hi bags for your crappola night. dont beat yourself up about feeling irritated, we've all been there. you may be a fabulous mummy, but you're not supermum, none of us are and we all have our simmering points. a nice walk and some music sounds like a really good idea x

ginger, dont think i did anything that i havent tried before, although, i did make a concerted effort to make sure she fell asleep in her cot, without me doing anything iyswim? hope dd settled afterwards last night, and, as bags says, i bring dd down too if it comes to it. it was usually when ugly betty was on, think she was actually following it

last night was good, not as fab as previous night, although she did lie in so maybe it was
bed at 6.30pm, brief waking at 8pm (ssh/pat back to sleep) woke at 4am for bf, up for day at 6.45am

hope everyone else ok this a.m?

definitely prefer the 6.45am waking to the 5.15am one

oh and bags, lo sounds so cute 'singing' after feeds, altho i'm sure you dont think so in the dead of night

hi ginger, bags, tibs.

sorry for crap night bags, tibs yours sounds not too bad.

ours was good again, but damn those early wakings. noise at 5am, eventually back asleep, but then up at 6. sigh. i fed him, then went back to bed and dh took over until i got up at 8.30 - feel much more human!

LO is being quite precise again though. now that he has decided to feed at 1am, he wakes almost exactly at that time. last night 12.59. incredible stuff. its pretty good for me as if i get to bed at 9, i get nearly a 4 hour stretch. its been a long time coming.

i can't wait for some of my friends to have kids as well so they can understand the sleep thing. but then they'll probably have perfect sleeping kids that sleep through the night at 2 weeks just to spite me.

ps. i think i'm going to charge up my ipod and do some musical pramming on the way to bf clinic today.
i'm showing the gill rapley BLW dvd to some mums with almost-ready-to-wean bubs, so i wonder if they'll be inspired to go that way.

Strong coffee anyone?

Yeah, bad night but it was my fault not DD's for a change. She settled ok with me at about 11ish but I was woken at 1.50 by her dummy falling from the bed (dummy users will recognise what I'm saying about the rattle noise it makes as it clangs through bars!) so anyway, I get up to retrieve it and that's me, bang, wide awake for 1 1/2 hours then, just as I'm nodding off, DD cries out so that's me awake for another 45 minutes. So it's about 4.15 before I'm getting back to sleep and she wakes (although briefly) at 5 then 6 for the day. I'm soooooooooo tired

Cue this morning DH being in the bad books as he doesn't appreciate how hard it is for me to fall back to sleep after being woken. He's back off in seconds.

I'm going to try and make an effort to keep her in her cot tonight (yeah right, ask me again at 2 in the morning). But I think I respond in the night if she's next to me when it's unnecessary. I mean, she didn't wake for the dummy so if I'd left it where it was I could have just drifted back to that land of nod which seems about as mythical as Atlantis to me at the moment.

Is the dvd good?

My ds for the last two nights has woken at 11ish then 4 ish then 6/7ish so thats a little bit better but it means theres no point in going to bed at 9 really. He wanted to play at 4 ish but I just ignored him and his gurglings and he must have stopped but I passed out before that. Feel a bit more human today.

I know what you mean about the bad temper. I am so snappy with my older son and hes a perfect sleeper!

Is the dvd good?

My ds for the last two nights has woken at 11ish then 4 ish then 6/7ish so thats a little bit better but it means theres no point in going to bed at 9 really. He wanted to play at 4 ish but I just ignored him and his gurglings and he must have stopped but I passed out before that. Feel a bit more human today.

I know what you mean about the bad temper. I am so snappy with my older son and hes a perfect sleeper!

I hate that bit , trying to get back to sleep th elonger it takes the more depserate you get and the more sleep evades you. I did some washing the other night cos I thought if I got up and went to bed again it woudl help. I remember with my first son cleaning the hosue at 4 am once.

ginger, totally understand ... strong coffee or two for you. also often have the same problem falling back asleep. i have told dh to try not to talk to me in the night when i get up or come back to bed because i try to keep in a sleepy state so that when i go back to bed i can get to sleep faster. if i can just feed, put |LO back in cot, generally its okay. if i have to have screaming and calming down routine, or chat with dh i can be awake forhours.

blerrrgh, you must feel terrible this morning

msA, your nights sound decent - i would probably still go to bed at 9 though. going to bed at 11 is just too late for me.

ps. LO slept on his side last night for the first time. when i went in at 5 and 6, there he was, cuddling his cuski thing on his side. bless

morning ginger extra shot of caffeine my lovely hope you manage to get some rest today.

amber - that sounds good. hows it all going with the weaning? you have started now havent you?

MsA, for the improved nights. my ds tends to cop it if i've had a bad night(s) with dd too! the pitfalls of being the 1st born

amber - lo sounds like a cutie patootie theyre so sweet when they start moving round at night.. quite often find dd on her tum with her bum in the air

tam, how was the party? must live my life vicariously (sp?) through others now i have no social life of my own

Morning all. Bags and Ginger, sorry for your bad nights. But Tibsy and Amber, you give us all hope!

Ours was a bit , evening was fine (bar a screaming session half an hour after bedtime, he settled again easily though) and in fact didn't wake again til 12.40... fed then slept til 2ish but was pretty unsettled after that, lots of flailing around and crying out every half-hour or so (maybe when he's in his own room we won't be bothered by this sort of thing, but it wakes me every time and I feel I have to try to shush DS so he doesn't wake himself fully).

Brought him into bed with us at 5, then he woke at 6 with a blocked nose and started crying, emergency nose drops were administered and he went back to sleep til 8.30 (I must say I like this as a time to get up in the morning).

tibs, i keep wondering if Lo will prefer to sleep on his tummy once he can get there in his cot. or might be like his mum and sleep on his side.

the whole blw thing is going quite well i think. to be honest now that i've started i don't think i'd have the patience to shovel spoons of stuff in. i just give him some steamed vegetables and/or fruit while i'm either eating or doing stuff in the kitchen (he loves to watch me unpack the dishwasher ) and sometimes he eats it, sometimes he doesn't. its so low-stress! he seems to be taking to it quite well though and definitely has a liking for asparagus and mango.

yeah megs, if my LO can do it, anyone can (eventually)!

for your unsettled night.

ok, off to get my double caffeine hit from the frenchies down the road. xx

morning. i'm soooooooooo hung over. against my better judgement i allowed myself to be coaxed into going out last night. dh brought ds home about 8 and i stayed on with the rest of our friends drinking way too much champagne (get me!) and then we went dancing. i had a brillaint night, the music was fantastic but got home about 2 and ds got up at 6.30!
not sure if i'm hung over or still drunk. ds is in his cot as we speak so as soon as he goes over to sleep i'm going back to bed!
....and it's only monday >

meg for your unsettled night. i know what you mean about having a snuffly, wriggly baby in the room. dd kept me awake last night, even tho she was still asleep, because i thought every noise was a cue to her waking up, grrrr!! still havent learnt to shut off

amber glad its going well with lo and blw. its a nice time although i did used tp panic that dd wasnt getting enough. once i calmed down, i enjoyed the experience much more. she likes the food off my plate atm, must taste better than off hers! lo will soon be emptying the dishwasher for you

Ohh Tam, you're so young and adventerous. I feel like an old hag this morning and I haven't even had the fun of getting drunk.

tammy tam tam

...............good on you girl!!!! am very although not of the hangover!!!! get your head down my love and catch 40 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's

LOL ginger and tam. i used to be a total party girl but thought i'd grown up embarrasing how easily i'm persuaded. dh laughed as they all ganged up on me because he knows me so well and knew that i'd buckle under the pressure!

methinks you might still be a little bit tipsy, i'm tibsy, you're tam!!!!!!!!!! hee hee hee hee..................oh, and i'm a pushover too when it comes to alcohol and dancing