Coffee and Concealer Club

[Kimberleigh]

Just thought id start a thread for those up in the wee hours to chat :)

We have been feeding since 8pm, still going! We are combination feeding so hubby did some of the feeding tonight whilst i had a shower and tried to take a nap, that failed as the caffeine and shower have me a second. Lol. Ahh well..... not feeling too bad at the minute. Watching skins on the ipad!!

Meant to say it gave me second wind..!

Hey! Sorry just seen your message now but I am also up a lot in the night and looking for people to chat to! Everyone who used to be up doing night feeds is now getting way more sleep than me and feels like we’ve been left behind a bit 😔 even people who had babies weeks later seem to be getting more sleep!

How olds your baby and how badly/well do they normally sleep?

😊

Hi. She is 5 weeks.

She was doing great, sleep at 10/11, up at 2/3, then 6/7.

Now its bed between 1am-3am, up at 7am. Arghhhh. Then we snooze in bed. I feed and co sleep in the mornings when hubby goes to work. Lol. Least I get a bit of a nap.

I think she is cluster feeding at The mo.

How old is your baby and what are they like!

I have had a couple of nights from hell!! We are combination feeding but we only give DS a bottle if he is clustering on me, or won't settle on me.

DS is also 5 weeks and I got precisely 1?5 hours sleep last night! He was up between 12-1 then 1:30-2.15 then 3-6!!!

No chance of a nap today either for me.

I find that I get him to sleep, then he poos! So I have to change him which wakes him, so I offer him boob again and then the cycle restarts. Did give him a bottle last night which he took but then threw back up.
Dreading tonight.

Hi Snowflake.!

Bugger - hope tonight is better.

Hubby and I have the attitude of ' no two nights are the same' and ' we deal with what she throws at us ' she is in total control at the minute.

Last night was hard. 8pm - 3:30am feeding.

Tonight - slept from 8:30/9 - midnight. Fed, and is currently asleep again.

There is no consistency. But we roll with it.

Hubby gives me time to sleep when he gets home. So im refreshed and ready for the night ahead 😂

I have a 3 week old who is breastfeeding

Nights are a bit brutal right now. He's lovely but I wish he could cluster feed at 1pm to 3pm rather than 1am

Hi @Woolly17, my DS went through this. Apparently they cluster more at night because the hormones make you produce more milk. ?

We had a terrible intial put down, was unsettled/crying between 10-00:15 and then he's only just woke up.

He has a bit of nappy rash though which I think is bothering him. X

5 week DD here. For some reason, sleeps better on top of me on the sofa rather than on top of me in bed! Have given in after 2 hours of her chattering and moved downstairs!

Have started going to bed around 9pm, then DH gives her a feed and brings her up around 1am and she will then usually sleep until 5/6am, but saying that every night is different!

Looking forward to getting some kind of routine but that just seems impossible right now!!

We had a marathon cluster session the other night, until about 3:30am. Well at least i thought it was a cluster session. Everytime I tried to put her down she would cry and only settle feeding on me. She has been settling very late the past week, feeding non stop.

I was dreading last night thinking it was going to be the same. I have a packed lunch all Ready for hubby to bring upstairs when he leaves for work hubby so i dont have to get out of bed at all on thursday. Lol.

I went for a sleep from 6-7:30 last night when hubby got in from work but i couldn't sleep, perhaps over tired.

Then at 9:30 he was like right, go to bed for a few hours. I will being her up later.

So i had 2 hours from 10-midnight whist hubby and baby had cuddles and she slept on him in the sling down stairs.

I fed her from 00:00-00:30, put her to bed at 1am, and i managed 4.5 hours kip, she is now awake feeding.

No two nights are ever the same. Lol.