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When did you get your evenings back?

11 replies

Stefka · 22/01/2008 19:00

Just wondering as at the moment DS won't sleep until about midnight and is pretty high maintenance at night. I would love a bit of time for just me and DH. DS is 13 weeks old at the moment. Just wondered if things will get better any time soon.

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reikizen · 22/01/2008 19:03

Yes they do, little by little you realise you can actually watch TV/ring a friend/have a bath etc. that said, evenings are never really the same again as they always have a cold, teeth coming etc but you get used to it.
I do remember that awful feeling tho and you have my sympathy. Now if dd2 would just go to bloody sleep I could tidy up, do some washing, get ready for tomorrow, do some reading for my course. What were we saying about evenings?

cat64 · 22/01/2008 19:16

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dizzydance · 22/01/2008 19:17

Yep I remember that feeling well. It does gradually happen though. I remember the first time I had a soak in the bath without being disturbed and it was brilliant!
Trouble is mine are both teens now so after years of getting them to bed at 7 then 8 and 9 and so on they now want to stay up later than me so I've sort of lost my peaceful evenings again.

ska · 22/01/2008 19:18

oh about 30 i suspect! we have 8, 12 and 14 year olds. 8 yo goes up at 8.30 and comes up and down during the evening. 12 yo goes up at 9 and sleeps for england. 14 yo goes to bed later than me! when they leave home.......

MuffinMclay · 22/01/2008 19:28

When ds was about 12 weeks old. Hope things get better for you very soon. I'm not looking forward to losing my evenings again (ds2 due soon).

Bodkin · 22/01/2008 21:32

Both DD1 and 2 wanted feeding ALL evening until they were about 10 weeks old. Then something suddenly switched and they howled if they weren't put to bed. Woke up much more at night though once they stopped the evening feedathons, so there's always something....

Swaliswan · 22/01/2008 22:30

DD stopped cluster feeding and finally started going to bed at a reasonable time (7pm woohoo!) when she was on enough solids to satisfy her. She was probably about 6mo. But, she was one of the latest out of the babies in my postnatal group and most of the others were sleeping 7-7 from about 5mo. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

MrsMar · 23/01/2008 21:50

ds started going to bed at 7pm and sleeping properly at about 10 weeks. It was a big turning point in my life, being able to eat a meal without a wailing baby on my shoulder. Sitting on the sofa and having a cuddle with dh. Reading a paper, Oh how I cherish the evenings! I hope things improve soon stefka!

gigglewitch · 23/01/2008 21:51

what evenings???? (DC 2,4&7)

posieflump · 23/01/2008 21:53

btw 6 and 12 weeks
it does happen
athough at the time it feels like it never will
you will get there, you just have to hang on, get dh/dp to help as much as possuble - you feed at 7pm, go to bed he has baby and brings baby up to you if he can't settle

LittleBottle · 24/01/2008 13:58

My DS was about 15 weeks when his bedtime shifted from 10pm to 8pm. This did coincide with the clocks going back in October though!

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