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This is normal, isn't it?

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motherinferior · 19/07/2003 12:00

Apologies to anyone who's read my similar post on the breasfeeding thread...but I'm at that stage of sleep deprivation and despair where I start wondering whether my child/me aren't completely delinquent compared to everyone else's little angels (and it is NO help knowing I went through this with dd1, incidentally, as I'm currently convinced I'll be stuck in this loop for 5 years or so). Dd2, now a geriatric 3.5 weeks (so surely, my bonkers brain feels, capable of sleeping through the night, feeding herself and saying the alphabet) snoozes away during the day (she's waking up more - particularly when spritely older sister 'plays' with her, but she's still pretty somnulant, especially with the weather we've been having)...but night-times are just awful. She wailed last night for over two hours. Sometimes she's hungry - although it takes her ages to realise this and chow down on the nipple I've been dangling in her gob for several minutes by then. Sometimes it's wind. and at other times...I'm buggered if I know.

Any ideas? And please, please, please just reassure me that this is perfectly ordinary behaviour and that other babies do it, because I'm getting to the end of my tether!

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boyandgirl · 20/07/2003 11:05

Wake her up. If she sleeps too much during the day, then she won't need as much sleep at night. Of course, then you've got the job of entertaining her during the day, but hopefully she - and you! - will then sleep better at night, and maybe feed more efficiently at night, too.

And yes, all newborns are gorgeous, lovely, sleep-eating-monsters!

motherinferior · 20/07/2003 11:37

yep, I know. She was awake a lot more yesterday, and slept much better as a result. Problem is now with dp, who's insisting that she's waking enough in the day and please can we take advantage of when she sleeps. It's all very well for him...

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motherinferior · 20/07/2003 11:37

yep, I know. She was awake a lot more yesterday, and slept much better as a result. Problem is now with dp, who's insisting that she's waking enough in the day and please can we take advantage of when she sleeps. It's all very well for him...

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wickedstepmother · 20/07/2003 11:52

Despite being knackered you still managed to make me giglle with the 'chow down......dangling nipple' comment. Chin up chuck, it WILL get better

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