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Post by mrsmonogrammed on Apr 22, 2018 4:16:02 GMT -6
The 4am feeding is my most hated. My older DD usually wakes around 6:30 but the baby has been marathon nursing for like 45 minutes the past few mornings at this time😞
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Post by polson on Apr 22, 2018 4:24:45 GMT -6
The 4am feeding is my most hated. My older DD usually wakes around 6:30 but the baby has been marathon nursing for like 45 minutes the past few mornings at this time😞 +1...i never know if i should go back to bed or enjoy a cup of coffee in peace and be extra exhausted later.
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Post by polson on Apr 22, 2018 4:27:51 GMT -6
mattsgirl2004 ugh i’m so sorry. i hope you can get some rest today
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Post by mattsgirl2004 on Apr 22, 2018 7:32:09 GMT -6
Last night sucked. I didn't get to go to bed until sometime around 3 a.m. and R woke up with a poop diaper and wanting to eat at 3:40 a.m. DD1 has been up since 6 a.m. Ugh. Send me lots of caffeine. These kids better sleep better tonight.
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Post by mrsmonogrammed on Apr 22, 2018 7:40:21 GMT -6
Somebody remind me when they go through growth spurts? I feel like O has been on the boob alllllllllll morning 😬
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Post by auri on Apr 22, 2018 9:00:27 GMT -6
mattsgirl2004 I’m sorry you the kids kept you up all night. I hope you have a nice long nap in your future.
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Post by nuggetrn on Apr 22, 2018 18:09:43 GMT -6
Sorry I have been MIA. We have been so busy and I have just not had the energy to come back here. I should preface things with the fact that DH works third shift and then comes home in the morning and needs to sleep. It is a stupidly difficult balancing act of making sure that he gets enough sleep and I have him for help. I have been very adamant that it is important for him to get his rest so he is safe at work/driving too and from work. I think my efforts to accommodate him have sometimes bitten me in the butt, because then I suffer at his expense. Some of it is my own doing and others is his obliviousness. I think here in the last few days it has just all come to a head. Knowing that I am close to going back to work and thinking about having to go to work in the morning after being up for her by myself through the night... sigh. We're still obviously figuring things out. snowmoon, Yes, I am getting out of the house during the day. A lot actually here lately. Which has been both good and bad. I leave the house so DH can get peaceful sleep. But at a certain point it gets exhausting to be out of the house all day with a baby. nevertoomanyshoes, It's a good point of doing better at work with less sleep. I hope that is the case fro me. I am sure that being busy and on my feet will keep me awake. I actually hope that maybe when I go back to work DH will get more sleep because DD won't be here when he gets home in the morning which will hopefully mean he will go to sleep faster and it will be more restful. calendula, I know I know. And I waffle between standing up for the fact that I also need to be well taken care of and feeling guilty because he has to go to work and I want to make sure he is well rested and safe while driving and around heavy machinery. And then I know he feels guilty because he wants to be around more. I tell him if he feels bad he needs to use his time with us more wisely... It's a conversation we have had more than once. I am not sure what is going to finally drive it home. I have taken to being much more assertive with handing him the baby and telling him I am going to go do this or that. He can figure out whatever else on his own. Also thank you guys <3 <3
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Post by nuggetrn on Apr 22, 2018 18:11:53 GMT -6
It's not MOTN related, but it may be at some point... baby went to bed at 7:30, which was much much needed. But I am afraid for what this means for the rest of the night. I really hope she still sleeps for a nice long stretch.
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Post by clementine on Apr 22, 2018 20:28:25 GMT -6
7:30 bedtime?! How do I get that to happen? Right now, H will hold and rock L from around 9-11, then I dream feed, then rock some more, then finally lay him down. If we try to lay him down at 9, he wakes up like 30 min later.
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Post by clementine on Apr 22, 2018 20:37:45 GMT -6
Also am I dream feeding right? For L to actually be awake enough to eat, I have to unswaddle and mess with him a bit. And then he’s awake enough that it takes a bit to get him to fall back asleep.
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Post by cp3 on Apr 22, 2018 22:29:45 GMT -6
I want to murder Mh. I finally got the baby to sleep in the RNP and he goes to the bathroom and closes the door loudly so she wakes up. I got her back down now and I'm hoping she stays asleep for a while.
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Post by gldnbearz on Apr 22, 2018 22:40:10 GMT -6
I am hoping that it doesn't take 3 hours to get baby to sleep tonight.
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Post by nuggetrn on Apr 22, 2018 23:09:05 GMT -6
7:30 bedtime?! How do I get that to happen? Right now, H will hold and rock L from around 9-11, then I dream feed, then rock some more, then finally lay him down. If we try to lay him down at 9, he wakes up like 30 min later. I promise it was just a fluke. And it took 9 weeks to make happen. Every other time I have tried to lay her down early we rock for hours and it still ends up being ten or eleven o'clock. I also really hope I didn't break her for the rest of the night. I just kind of put her in bed and have been praying she will sleep. She just woke up, so about 5.5 hours of sleep. I of course have only had about 2 because I was enjoying my freedom. So hopefully she goes back down without too much issue.
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Post by nuggetrn on Apr 22, 2018 23:12:50 GMT -6
Also am I dream feeding right? For L to actually be awake enough to eat, I have to unswaddle and mess with him a bit. And then he’s awake enough that it takes a bit to get him to fall back asleep. I am not sure. I really only attempted dream feeding once because I finally googled what it was... I had to do so much waking up that i want sure if it was really worth it. I also questioned if that was right. Maybe some babies just don't cooperate with it?
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Post by nevertoomanyshoes on Apr 23, 2018 0:08:02 GMT -6
clementine dream feeding never worked for us for DS1, he wouldn’t nurse unless fully awake. DS2 seems to be the same 🙁 DS2 goes “to bed” (but only kind of because it’s not that long a stretch) usually around 6pm as we are getting DS1 ready for bed (he doesn’t nap and goes to bed quite early, 6:30pm). I’m wondering if DS1s bedtime routine has become a routine by association lol. Sometimes he’s down until 11:00 but sometimes up again at 7 or 8 pm. DS1 went down late until he was about 6-7 weeks then it started getting earlier and earlier.
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Post by smilesp on Apr 23, 2018 0:32:12 GMT -6
I’ve never really understood how dream feeding is a thing. And don’t you need to change diapers anyway?
Speaking of diapers, I’m getting ready to change DS2 for the third time in about 30 minutes 😐
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Post by ArielMermaid on Apr 23, 2018 1:01:16 GMT -6
MH just told our gassy angry one day old, “I’m ready for you to be a toddler now. “ We are so good a babies. 😂
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Post by gldnbearz on Apr 23, 2018 2:40:06 GMT -6
I cannot figure out how to dream feed either. Between diaper changes, burping, swaddling and trying multiple times to latch properly, we are both awake. The nights we fall asleep together are easier to fall back asleep since I don't have to walk him back to the pnp/rnp and risk waking him up during the transfer.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Apr 23, 2018 23:15:23 GMT -6
I guess I missed my window. She slept 8:30 to 10 and then the cluster feeding began. Damn MH and his useless nipples.
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Post by sweetc129 on Apr 23, 2018 23:28:18 GMT -6
I guess I missed my window. She slept 8:30 to 10 and then the cluster feeding began. Damn MH and his useless nipples. Hope you get some rest. I hate that early evening nap, killer.
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Post by katietopaz on Apr 23, 2018 23:46:59 GMT -6
I miss having a little evening to myself/with DH after DS1’s bedtime. DS2 is just naturally going to bed much later, and that’s totally eaten into that kid-free sanity and wind-down time.
One of the many reasons I really think I’m done at two kids. There are things I love about the baby stage, but they almost all take place during the day and I’m a better mom and spouse when my evenings and nights aren’t a train wreck.
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Post by snowmoon on Apr 24, 2018 1:13:21 GMT -6
Baby gave me a good 3 hour stretch of sleep and then made up for it by being awake for over an hour so far.
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Post by dizzycooks on Apr 24, 2018 6:19:31 GMT -6
Dh got up at 430am with ds and apparently he walked him up to the kitchen, the baby belched and fell asleep. And dh was wide awake for the day. 😂 I slept through all of it.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Apr 24, 2018 7:34:16 GMT -6
Baby Mermaid sleeps really good, during the day... 😂
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Post by mintyblueair on Apr 24, 2018 11:10:37 GMT -6
N has been significantly less fussy since we started the biogaia drops, treated her thrush, and changed her to a sensitive formula. I'm not sure which, if any of those things, has made the difference, but I hope it keeps up! She slept a five hour stretch last night, which was amazing, and has taken long naps all day yesterday and this morning. I feel like a new person.
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Post by mintyblueair on Apr 24, 2018 11:11:04 GMT -6
Oops, posted in the wrong thread but I guess I'll leave it here...
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Post by dizzycooks on Apr 25, 2018 2:15:30 GMT -6
Somehow I need more sleep if I’m going to process all dh has going in. He is probably getting the job which is a good 6 weeks earlier than I was expecting and we need to move, like yesterday. Not excited about that. I feel like my little support system I have with my sah neighbor is one of the only things I have going to help me and it’ll be gone. It’ll be ok bc dh will be home more right? And yeah, crazy nursing baby here. Apparently I’m paying for leaving the house for 2 hours. It’s 3am and the bigs will be up at 6 and dhs alarm will go off then too. I’ve been up since 130.
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Post by cp3 on Apr 25, 2018 22:27:26 GMT -6
I've been trying to get the baby to sleep for the past hour and a half. Nothing is working. She's not too fussy but will not sleep. The last time she napped was over 5 hours ago. I just want to sleep. 😴
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Post by ArielMermaid on Apr 25, 2018 22:30:34 GMT -6
Someone hit a pole down the road from us and power has been out for3 ish hours. The girls are not liking it. DD1 just woke up and realized it’s dark. Then we had to move DD2 and I upstairs because it’s getting cold. I give it 30 min before DD2 wakes the whole house up.
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Post by leatherpants on Apr 26, 2018 3:06:51 GMT -6
Someone hit a pole down the road from us and power has been out for3 ish hours. The girls are not liking it. DD1 just woke up and realized it’s dark. Then we had to move DD2 and I upstairs because it’s getting cold. I give it 30 min before DD2 wakes the whole house up. Yikes. Hopefully that got fixed quickly and you guys are all warm now.
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