SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK PART 8 -- Pack the bags under your eyes and join us!

[RoRoMommy]

Well...I had to think of something! DH's suggestion "Eyes wide shut--the art of sleepwalking"

Hi everyone! Busy day...but I couldn't let it end without sending some hugs and lovin's to my favorite sleep deprived mommies!

Great work EP, CSB and Tam! Sometimes even those few hours stretches give me hope. Meg, sorry about the trip to the Dr, but hooray that it's running it's course. I am sending you healthy vibes now! [scruntches eyes and thinks healthy thoughts]

CM, teeth! It's rough, but it goes in fits and starts, so don't worry...I find the nurofen calpol one-two punch to work a treat.

Tibs, sorry your DP had such an early morning, but I hope you had a great day! at DD helping with the typing.

Ginger, so sorry you're not feeling well...[scrutches up eyes again, thinking healthy thoughts] Feel better!

Amber! I have to say I am a Dr. Sears fan myself, I loved their books. I mean, being an overachiever it gave me something to shoot for, but I knew that I couldn't be total seven attachment parent...the seven Bs, right? Anyway, I took solace in his emphasis on healthy mom, healthy baby, so when I was at my wit's end I looked after myself.

Icarus, that does give me hope, I tell you what. And I've found that not thinking about how tired I am, or worrying about his sleep, really does make me feel better!

Okay, are you guys ready for this...DS slept from 7:30 to 11, dream feed, and slept through until quarter to six! HOORAY! Today was rough, though, poor bear is really suffering with the teeth. All four are visible now through the gums, so he's been working hard. Sweety pie. But we had a lovely day, and you know how I love the weekends! He's in bed now, down at 7:30 up at quarter to nine , quick cuddle from DH and back down Can't wait to sneak in next to my little guy!

Okay, remind me where the blog is??

Goodnight Ginger and RoRo.

I'm glad you're having a good weekend with your DS RoRO. What A fab night.

Sorry you're feeling poorly Ginger. I am determined not to get sick until DS2 is a lot easier. I hope my body gets the message!!!

Ginger I think co-sleeping is lovely and you should never doubt that you are doing the right thing. I would love to co-sleep, but for the reasons I said earlier it just doesn't work for me. However, nothing beats having your LO nestled against you. In an ideal world I would definately co-sleep. When DS1 was 3 1/2 we shared a double bed when we stayed at Euro Disney. We both loved it.

wooooo hooooooo, RoRo!! love your work.

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morning! am i the first one up? we had a good night anyway, ds slept from 7.30 to 7, with just a couple of murmurs through the night. yay. i can't stop sneezing though, hope i'm not getting sick (yet again). must take more echinacea ...
hope there were more good nights.

morning all.

amber good night
re dr sears i haven't read that much. I like (as cm said) that he acknowledges that all children are different and so a blanket approach (life GF) will not suit all children. also as ginger said he makes me feel better about co-sleeping!

another 8-8 for us.

I'm xmas shopping on line at the mo. must stop now as it doesn't feel like real money!!

for your night Amber, hope you don't get that cold.

Think I've now got one myself, sadly. Another coughy & unsettled night here, slept in til 9, looked really tired ten minutes ago so I put him down for a nap but after 5 mins he was wide awake.

Made me realise how much I've come to rely on his routine, and how much it stresses me out when he's out of it as I just don't know when he's properly hungry, tired etc!

Good morning! Amber and Tam, Meg, I really hope you're not getting sick! Healthy vibes to all [wonders if her healthy vibe machine is working ]

Last night was rubbish. Don't want to linger on it because DH allowed me an incredible lie-in this morning during which I dreamt nearly constantly it seemed, but it was pretty bad. Down at 7:30, up at 8:45, 10, 12, 2, 4:45 and 5:45. In between those times I am sure I was settling him in my sleep because my pelvis is killing me (evidence of constant movement and shifting and rolling throughout the night).

Oh well. You win some...

My dad is arriving in a few hours and we have loads of cleaning to do. DH is in the kitchen now with the dishes, so if i don't get busy I am going to feel like a real loser!

Talk to you lovely ladies soon! xxx

roromommy sounds like a similar night..nights to e..sympathy vote for you.. im really beginning to wonder whether he can survive only on one top up a night as hes sooo hungry all the time!!!!

hey up ladies,

Roro - hoep dad arrives safely. we had a fab night last night, went to bed at my mus at 6:30, woke at 8 to get in car, asleep immediately, home at 9:30 , quick booby fest, woke up at 5:30! yay!

we found a house ysterday, not sure if or it was stunning, proper beautiful, but more than we can afford with one wage, so in a bit of quandry about how to proceed, whether we ask my parents for the doe until i get owrk then pay them back, come out of the property market ourselves, rent for a bit and then see what happens or forget this house that we wouldn't have to move from for ages and get one that we'd have to move from in a bout 5years time.... any suggestions?

for fab nights, for good and for not so good, sending sleep vibes your way as long as they dont come from my ds! lol

Thanks Bambi! Misery loves company, right?

Beal, I guess it depends whether your parents would loan you the money for the house, it sounds like a really great opportunity, and of course it would be best if you didn't have to move for a while (especially since you're thinking of growing your family!). It's a lot to think about and decide, so I'll put my thinking cap in the mail to you...

I am exhausted from the effort of entertaining my dad and his fiance while also taking care of a grizzly, teething DS. DS is in bed, and it's just now 8pm, and dad is gone, so now DH and I are just going to cuddle on the couch until it's time to go to bed.

Feeling quite it's Sunday night...but I am off Thursday and Friday next week so for the short work week!

(((hugs))) I hope we all get some great sleep tonight.

Pops in [sniff, coughs, blows nose}

nothing to report at chez ginger.
will report back when well

good morning...ginger, hope you're feeling better.

morning all, hope youve had some good nights. we did (i think) bed at 6:30pm, i woke him at 9:30 for a feed, awake at 4:30 for dummy, up for the day about 5mins ago, not bad at all.

Anyone know how skirmish is getting on?

morning lovelies
will read posts in a little while
our night
bed 6.15pm
up for day 6.30am

ok, read 'em

ginger - youre feeling poorly lovely. hope you feel better soon

meggy fro another visit to hospital. glad lo is on the mend tho x

charlie for teething. i cant wait til it ends. am sure dd will be a super sleeper then big (((hugs)))

roro - glad you enjoyed your weekend with your boys. for good night but for bad one. yay for long weekend next week

tam and amber for good nights
tam i havent even started xmas shopping yet. wanna do mine too?

hi to EP hows the feeding going at night?

oh and thankyou to icarus fro your words of promise and hope

we have snow

We have rain. Lots of it.

Congrats. Beal and Tibsy for your nights.

DS2 is still waking every 3 hours which by the early hours has reduced to 2 hourly and then hourly. I am getting increasingly exhausted. It would be nice to have at least one stretch in the night of 5-6 hours. I'm still wondering if I should be doing something differently. I'm just not sure what!! Give me hope you seasoned SIFTW mums with older LOs that this will not last forever!!! This is new territory for me as both my other LOs had stopped waking so frequently by now.

No teeth have appeared so I don't know if that was a false alarm or if they'll appear soon!

See you later

Tibsy and beal for your nights

CM i promise you it does get better with age. my theory is atht every aprent gets a non-sleeper eventually. I'm hoping i got mine first time round and 2nd one might not take until 20 months to sleep through the night!

8-7 for us

For your night Tamdin

I thought I had had my non-sleeper with DS1 who didn't sleep through until 11 months. then DD had terrible colic, so I really thought no.3 would be my content 'easy' baby!!

for the good nights esp. Tibsy and Tam!

Ours v. disturbed again, I think his cough is improving slightly but it has shagged his sleeping patterns right up (such as they were). Feeling a bit about it today, feels like we're right back where we were about 4 months ago, up and down the stairs all evening until I give up and go to bed with him. Hopefully when he's totally recovered from being ill we can work on getting back to 2-3 wakings a night

at snow

quick one here as at work and have just skimmed posts (busy weekend)

DS has been wide awake, chatting laughing and running about for a couple of hours in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT for the past couple of nights. WTF?? He was bouncing off the walls at 2am last night, no idea why. Kept siding off the bed and running off, giggling (one of the probs of not using a cot). When he finally went to sleep, not a peep until nearly 7 when my coughing set him off. I think he must just be really, really, strange. Still not feeding in the early evenings, with some success.

RoRo: one great night and one bad one, suppose they even out

Sending lots of get-well vibes to sick babies and mummies. I can't see to throw off this cough, so going to docs this afternoon. Anticipating a row over continued bfing, ho hum.

Oh, and this weekend Ii did all the housework and the shopping and knitted DS a new pair of mittens . They are fluffy and stripey and v cute.

Meg: am sure things will improve once he gets better, and it should take less time cos a) you've done it before and b) he's thatt bit older. Try not to worry for the time being and get some rest yourself.

Hi folks, hope you are all well!

Sounds like a mixture of great and terrible with not much in between! Sending get well vibes to those in need (ginger you 'sound' like you feel really crappy!) and sympathy to cm and Ro for dental tedium. Beal I hope you find a solution to yous housing dilemma - how exciting though!

I like Sears very much, now that I have a child who insists on being attachment parented .

I spent much of the weekend at my parents' house which was lovely, and DS was remarkably good. Cosleeping makes staying away with him so easy, he'd be hell to settle otherwise. Back to routine yesterday evening and it's definitely helping enormously, I think we all needed it more than we realised. Took an hour to settle last night but then slept for 2.25hrs and also gave me a lovely 4 hour stretch in the night - yay!

Thank you all for the support, it helps immensely.

EP mittens sound lovely. i keep thinking of knitting a jummy for dd, but havent gotten round to it yet. i knitted ds a lovely dennis the menace one when he was little. he looked lovely in it.

charlie - it will get easier, honestly. i've tried various sleep 'traning' with dd, but have abandoned it all atm....and she fell asleep last night, whilst feeding downstairs, (everything i tried to stop) and slept thru!! go figure. in their own sweet time i'm afraid hang on in there x

Beal - sorry lovely, missed your post for your night

Meggy, you'll get back to it. he was doing so well, and am sure he will again, just needs to recuperate first (((hugs)))

csb for your lovely weekend. i agree, cosleeping rocks!!!

tam for your night x

snow is melting dd loved the look of it, but when she felt how blardy cold it was, decided it wasnt that great after all