Sleep is for the weak part four, we're officially hardcore.

[gingerninja]

Yes ladies we've got a shiny new thread to share our woes of chronic sleep deprivation, to hail all that is gloreous when something works and throw our arms in the air when it all goes wrong again.

One bad night doesn't impress us, we're awake more than we sleep cos we is 'ard I tell ya.

Another ungroomed mother here - look like Wild Woman of the West accessorised with a red nose at the moment! Took DS to the docs and he now has some baby nurofen, so will see if that helps. Just a nasty bug going round. Am strongly considfering taking a day off tomorrow as still feeling awful - hopefully DS will be well enough to go to the cms (he's bouncing back from this a lot quicker than me) then I'll have a chance of a proper rest!

If I am off tomorrow, will take the chance to do something on theblog (after a long sleep that is ).

Love the post Tamdin

lovely post Tamdin. I was thinking about similar things today. Have linked up to Kate's article on TimesOnline, hope that's okay, its an interesting read.

xx

im looking rather like cinders
dh dosnt look a prince though
teenagers are hiding again and ds is silent for a min

good night my lovelies.

night, night, dont let the bed bugs bite

Gah!
Today's lengthy sleeping has indeed returned to haunt me. I've been into resettle DD every 45 mins....
Wishing you all better nights x

Looks like you have a good thread going here. I'll tune in tomorrow, if I get a chance with my bus day at work. Can let you know if I've had another mammoth early morning feed (see bf nightfeeds after 6m thread).

Hope to join your gang

ds seems to be sleepwalking
he is back in bed but i cuddled up to him for a while
hope he does not wander too much. night night again

morning

Morning everyone. sigh, are cupcake and i the first ones up. had a decent night again, but getting up toooooo early. feed at 2, awake at 6. can't complain huh.

morning cupcake and welcome wolfmama

sorry girls, have only skim read the posts, will re read later

another 'silly-o-clock' start for us and crappy night too with several wakings. nipples still taking a hammering!

hope there were some good ones out there

welcome wolfmama, you can also have a sneakpeak at our blog here

here is wolfmama's thread if anyone has any ideas ...

ds has really got a strange sleep
or not to sleep patern, luckily dh home last night.
teenager will appear at some stage on the food scrounge, it is hard having children
who seem to live in completely different time zones
hope everyone has a saneish day
this is a message from ds

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wolfmama, am going through a similar thing with dd atm. No advice i'm afraid, but have bumped the other thread in the hope that someone will come along

HI everyone.

Amber - the good nights keep coming! good for you.

for those killer early starts Tibs and Cupcake

Hi wolfmama- hope your night wasn't too tricky.

Crap one here - didn't settle 'til 10. Up at 12, 4, 6, and 7.30 for the day. Doesn't look so bad written down but i didn't sleep 10-12 for some reason, and the wakings were looong.

Feel like crap.
Right - off for some ipod power-pramming to sort my head out .

Hello all and to Woolfy.

Cupcake, tell us, what is worse a baby or teenager? Then remind us, why did we have children?

Well, for those early wakings. We had another 5 oclock although both DH and I had read the clock as 6 so reluctantly got up only to realise that it was actually 5 . DD is napping now, lucky thing. I'm supposed to be mopping the floor Another unsettled night. I took her to my bed at about 10 and she woke at 12, 3 and 5 for the day. I know it's not as bad as those of you that still have to produce milk (in one way or another ) but it feels hard because you are awoken from a deep sleep and not rousing on your own, that's the killer.
Anyway, must mop

Tam, love the blog post.

EP, what is the url to direct people to the blog. Lets get famous.

Good morning. Sorry for all those early starts, ours was 6.45 which is still too early in my book!

Well, last night was our first of 'proper' co-sleeping as the bed rail turned up yesterday. He went to bed at 7.30, had a very unsettled half-hour around 9 but then didn't wake til 11.30 (fed), then when he woke again at 1ish DH went off to the sofa and DS came in with me for the rest of the night. Fed sometime around 4, then awake at 6.45. But it's soooo much easier feeding when he's in with me, so we all feel quite well-rested today (though DH is a bit cramped from the sofa, but says it was worth it for not being woken!)

ginger that's a tough night, but so good of you to be humble!

the blog address is

www.sleepisfortheweak.wordpress.com/

i think we are doing pretty well, on 11 july, we had 115 views (now how many of them are us ...)

happy mopping!

we are going swimming today.

The only trouble with co-sleeping and BF is that I find I can only feed from one boob (the top one as I lie on my side IYSWIM) and when I wake up the other one is rock-hard and twice the size!

to meg
ouch

i used to try the roll occassionally to get to the other boob.

ginger, makes no diff if you're producing milk or no. you're still being woken from delicious slumber