SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK PART 6 - now with added caffeine*

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Morning all,

Hope you find this!

for your rough night Amber.

After a few good ones, we had a crap one too. Up at 1.30, 3, 4.30, 5.30, 6.15........
I think she was a bit overtired last night. Hope we can get her napping better today .

So how were all your nights?

first up again - lots to catch up...may take some time!

back soon

right, now i've read all that and can't remember a bloody thing!

there's definitely a in there for f cup boobs, a couple of for poorly lo's, and a couple of for soosie and chibi.
Amber - hope the lump is less painful today - and wow for getting so far in bf - we only managed 3mths here, but better than nothing, hoping the next one goes for longer (but then don't plan on getting pg again! )

crap night, or should i say morning here - we just had the one night waking (30mins after going down, grrr) but awake at bloody 5am, milk at 5.30am and no luck at getting him back to sleep (though, boy, did i try!). Lost it at 6am, showed ds the window, 'look how dark it is, you wanna get up, right we are getting up- but don't expect me to play with you!!!' or something along those lines!

now...are we going to have a good nap day or a bad nap day

saw baz on another thread - her lo has a cold

amber think you have what I had when i was weaning ds (at around 8 months) it is called a galacticille (sp?) and is a duct that doesn't drain away. I went privately as was worried and didn't want to wait the 3-4 weeks on the nhs to see someone so within 3 days of going to the gp I attended the clinic and the consultant drained it there and then. It didn't hurt at all but he did say if i continued to bf it would prob happen again

skirmish for your early start

HI ginger, meg and welcome Chibi

Chibi ds is 20m and we co sleep

HE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT LAST NIGHT
He fell asleep in our bed at 7.30 and I couldn't be bothered to move him . we climbed in beside him at 10 ish and he didn't stir.
he woke at 7.30 am for the day

morning all!!!

meg poor lo, hope hes feeling better soon x F cup i was a bountiful C, think i've gone down to a B, sob!!

amber ((((hugs)))) am sure it will all be fine. re. the 9 month thing, i went thru that too, seemed like i'd been feeding for an eternity, was fed up of having my top pulled at, fed up of wearing bloody nursing bras, of leaking occasionally, and basically just wanting my body back. i tried to cut down, but just couldnt and i must say that feeding now at 13+mths, its a whole different ball game. i'm actually enjoying it, altho i'm sure i'll go thru the time when i feel like giving it all up again, esp now dd will drink a bottle of cows milk before bed, just gives me another option iyswim? anyway, i'm going on now, just wanted to lend my support and say it does get easier, but if you do decide to wean lo off bfing, theres no shame in that either, you've given him the best possible start and have come thru a lot x
phew!

welcome to chibi, youre in good company here

Skirmish for your night, but for your way too early start. think i might have uttered something along those lines too if i were you

our night ok, 2 wakings for milk, up at 6.45am. nothing to write home about
ok, off for a shower, catch you later

X posted Tam for your night love, whoo hoo hoo!!!! more of that baby tam

Tam much as I'd love you to get that every night. I will not allow you to leave us well done little man.

thanks skirmish, tibs, tam.
and tam yayayayay!!!
tibs, thanks for saying it will get better. i really want to keep going because we are travelling in december and i don't want to cart bottles around or anything. and when we get back it will be the 12 month mark, so hope it will be a different ball game then

Did I smell a SIFTW baby sleeping through the night?

Thought so.

Well done Tam.

And a big hello to all you lovely ladies and babies .

Afternoon everyone and hi Baz

Tam well done your LO! Can he have a word with mine, please?

Amber I am finding BF a bit frustrating, sometimes feel like he would take more if I shoved a bottle in his face, but just don't think I could do it emotionally.

Also when are you off travelling? Only we might want to pencil in a date for the SIFTW Xmas meet-up before you go...

Hi Bazza

Amber, hope I didn't sound discouraging about bfing. I think you're doing brill. Having stopped I do wish I'd given it a bit longer. I'm sure you'll feel more positive again in a week or so.

Meg, you're doing a great job too. They don't reall take a great deal more from a bottle ime and you end up chucking it down the sink which is depressing.

2nd what ginger said amber. hope i didn't sound discouraging either. wished i could have taken ds to the 12 months mark. You're doing a fantastic job and travelling will be soooooo much easier wiithout bottles etc!

baz hi
don't think ds is ever going to be the kind of boy who sleeps through every night (well obviously he will eventually!!) but any time he wants to throw one my way i'm very grateful. esp as i feel like i'm getting the flu today
very achey all over. am trying to ignore it and hope it goes away.
hope you and dd are still doing well. you back at work yet?

Hey Tam!

Work on Tues
DD trial run at nursery right now - I really miss her [pathetic mummy emoticon]. I left her for an hour yesterday and I'm not sure she noticed I'd gone. I'll feel better when she's done a few days, and I've got work to take my mind off it!

aww little pet. It's a good age to start as any older and they can get major separation anxiety. when i worked in a nursery the hardest age to settle was 13/14 months up.
I'm hoping to find a little part time place for ds in the new year when he'll be 2 and i'm worrying about it already so i'm way more pathetic than you!
Just remember don't be afraid to ask lots of questions it's their job!
hope she's had a lovely time

Ginger, I spent ages expressing yesterday so DS could try Weetabix this morning (can't have cow's milk due to eczema). In the end he had one mouthful, turned his nose up and it went in the bin

Tam for flu, think we are just getting over illnesses in this house

Baz good luck for next week!

no, not discouraging at all - good to know what everyone has been through. don't feel alone. it's just hard being so pro breastfeeidng and feeling i want to give up at the same time
anyway, we've had a lovely day at tune time and then a little farm. ds asleep now, so i must get and do some cooking for his dinner. no rest for the wicked!
meg, i'm totally at a loss about breakfast, LO won't eat anything i serve up. lunch and dinner are okay, but short of me serving up fish curry for breakfast or something, i just don't think he's into it. weetabix, oatabix, cheese, toast, fruit, whatever, he just stares at it blankly every morning.

hello all, another rough night at casa chibi.
She has had her 3rd injections today so am expecting seriously broken sleep.

I am finding the co-sleeping hard at present- I know that I shouldn't use a duvet, but how do I not freeze to death? I tried just wearing lots of layers but this was unsatisfactory. I am also finding it impossible to get into any deeper i.e. restful sleep as I feel hyper vigilant to her every movement. Will this calm down eventually?

Thanks for the lovely welcome ladies.

amber I know how you feel about the bf, as much as I love doing it there are times when it feels like a king-sized drag.

chibi. you def get used to co-sleeping but then again for some it never suits. We kept our duvet on the bed but ds slept under my arm and i kept the duvet away from him.he fed every 2 hours for months awhich then went to 3 and 4. All i can say is it's amazing what little sleep you can get used to. I didn't want to enforce any kind of sleep training like cc or cio so he's learnt to sleep over time. not for everyone i know!

Have been lurking round this thread for months....

Can I join? Dd 14 months old never sleeps through night, up 5 times last night.

Am completely shattered

Bless you Fizz, you're most welcome. We have random suggestions few solutions but lots of sympathy.

Chibi, you do have to persevere with co-sleeping definately but it does get easier and as Tam said you manage on a lack of sleep. Somedays I've wondered how I was going to get through the day but you do.

We found co-sleeping become more of a problem when DD started moving so we changed from our bed to sleeping with her in her room on a make shift bed on the floor. When in our bed I would wake at every movement worrying about her crawling off the bed but on the floor she can't hurt herself if she moves off the matress. We used a bedrail so DD could sleep on the outside and was in a sleeping bag and i'd have the quilt just over me so I could whip it back to feed. Of course the easiest option is to just buy blankets but I've been looking for kingsize blankets and they cost a bleeding fortune.

Anyways, I've gotta dash. We've got a mega sore bum in this house which is odd because we've never had nappy rash before. Tibs did you manage to clear your DD's?

Amber, did you get your appointment at the Dr?

Well tahnks for the welcome. Notice most of you do co-sleeping.

DD won't do that , gets hyper and giddy. Spent 11.pm to 3.am the other night, with her squealing and laughing, although she was really tired. We have tried co-sleeping loads of times and it is always the same

Prefers it in her own cot

welcome fizz

day from hell here - it just didn't get any better! to say ds was grizzly would be an understatement! Whinging all day and then we it was finally bedtime, threw up in the cot, got him out, projectiled all over his bedroom floor, took him out onto the landing, and surprise surprise, more projectile there!! how can such a little tummy hold so much!?

finally settled after huge tantrum and still asleep now so fingers crossed - may slip in a little dreamfeed before i crash out!

amber - you've done so well with the bf - i'm in awe of anyone who gets past 6mths (and slightly scared - ds has bitten my finger on more than one occasion, so i dread to think of him biting anything else!)

tams - hope you are feeling better and ds gives you a restful night

and, hope everyone else has a good night too

fizzbuzz, my ds is a bit like that, gets so excited when in our presence he can't get to sleep. recently he was really unsettled and ended up sleeping with us on and off for a week or so, but now he's back to that giddy behaviour again in our bed, so he's been thrust back in his own room again.
ginger, no appointment yet, apparently have to wait for hospital to send letter
oh dear skirmish, what is with all the vomiting , hope your night is better than your day.
i've been very firm with LO about bitiing, so hope he won't do it any more. luckily the biting phase was actually before he had teeth.

welcome fizz. as ginger said we have no solutions here but lots of shared advice and sympathy mixed with a bit of humour to get us through the darkest days!

Skirmish what a night
sickness at night is a killer. It's soul destroying having to start again from scratch. I hope ds gives you a lie in in the morningto make up for it

Ginger if dd has nappy rash don't worry about asking nursery to change her more often than the norm. most babies will only be changed 3 times a day (if in full time) and sometimes if things are a bit hectic or dd is asleep she could miss a change. Just an idea x

we've been to pizza express tonight with friends and ds was sooooo good. sat for 2 hours playing with his trcator at the table and with his obligatory balloon , ate a whole mini la rein pizza and was asleep in 2 minutes once we got home. perfect night

x posted amber. hope your ds pulls out one of his through the night's for you tonight