I've been trying to get in bed since 9pm but R has only slept 15 minutes since then. Really hoping for a better night tonight, we didn't get a stretch until 5 am last night. I hope everyone is having happy sleepy babies tonight.
Post by thelittleredm on Jan 25, 2017 0:14:31 GMT -5
W has been pretty clingy tonight. Everytime my ILs tried to take him, he'd start rooting around and fussing so I'd take him back, nurse for like, 2 minutes and then he'd fall off the boob completely content until someone tried taking him again. I'm hoping tonight he gives me another almost 5 hour stretch of sleep. One can dream.
Just got up for first feeding of the night. My gd cat is clawing the door trying to get in ugh. Hoping LO goes down easily, last night she was really fussy and took hours at wake ups. Hope everyone's kiddos give them some sleep tonight.
W has been pretty clingy tonight. Everytime my ILs tried to take him, he'd start rooting around and fussing so I'd take him back, nurse for like, 2 minutes and then he'd fall off the boob completely content until someone tried taking him again. I'm hoping tonight he gives me another almost 5 hour stretch of sleep. One can dream.
This happens with mh every night. She starts screaming her head off when he's holding her , I nurse her for like a couple mins then try and put her down for a break. The evenings are so hard.
W has been pretty clingy tonight. Everytime my ILs tried to take him, he'd start rooting around and fussing so I'd take him back, nurse for like, 2 minutes and then he'd fall off the boob completely content until someone tried taking him again. I'm hoping tonight he gives me another almost 5 hour stretch of sleep. One can dream.
This happens with mh every night. She starts screaming her head off when he's holding her , I nurse her for like a couple mins then try and put her down for a break. The evenings are so hard.
DS1 was about two or three months old when he'd only let H hold him if I was in sight. If I left the room, he'd scream like he was being hurt. It was awful.
Post by heybulldog56 on Jan 25, 2017 1:07:09 GMT -5
Awkae as well. Nursing did not go well. I tried three different holds and B still screamed and thrashed around. Offered him a bottle and he gulped it down. He's asleep now and I am pumping.
Awake over her, R finally gave me a stretch of 25 minutes, and that was in the stupid swing. I'm just so frustrated because I know he can sleep better than this.
Post by peaseblossom55 on Jan 25, 2017 2:48:26 GMT -5
Up pumping. E was so so fussy earlier this evening h & I decided not to try her in her crib tonight. So glad I've had an awful headache I can't seem to get rid of.
Hugs meeggaannw, sorry how having another frustrating night.
I'm up for first wake up and my mission for tonight to try and get back in bed within an hour instead of 90 min each time which has been our norm. Need more sleep...
H also seems to be thrashing around and fussing much more as I try to get him latched which isn't helping our success rate. If he would just realize he can't fit both hands in his mouth and expect my boob to make it in there at the same time this would be easier.
Post by heybulldog56 on Jan 25, 2017 3:59:50 GMT -5
Up again! DS1 has gotten up three times. I feel slightly bad for H who has been helping feed baby while I pump and also helping to put DS1 back to bed. Tomorrow is his last day home and he's going to be exhausted. Welcome to the club, H!
Post by silvermelody on Jan 25, 2017 4:30:27 GMT -5
I wasn't around at all today. The LC came and that took forever.
Long story short is that we're headed down the same road as with DS, just catching it earlier. She needs chiro and probably has a tongue tie. My prolactin levels are in the shitter and I should see an endocrinologist and probably go on domperidone.
N is gaining weight but slower than she should. I need to be offering both sides every feed and adding one feed a day. She only gets one 3.5-4 hour sleep per 24 hours. If she didn't want both sides I need to pump the side she didn't eat.
I'm tired and frustrated. And sore. But our latch is as good as it can be without getting her fixed up, which means discomfort for a few more weeks.
Post by geauxtigers79 on Jan 25, 2017 4:41:07 GMT -5
I'm up, but not bc of baby although I expect him to wake up soon.
I'm up bc of H's snoring. OMG I could stab him!!!!! Everyone is having sweet dreams right now except me. I may make him get up with B when he wakes up since he's been sleeping all night and I've been listening to the damn snores!!
Up nursing, R just gave me a 2 1/2 hour stretch, glorious. Also I woke up at the same time he went down for his first stretch last night so that's nice.
Hugs silvermelody, I hope you can work things through soon. I'm curious about the chiro for LO. What will they work on?
geauxtigers79, snoring drives me nuts. I have no guilt about waking DH if when he snores. Thankfully not often but still, that noise...
meeggaannw, I'm sure you're trying everything to get R to sleep but thought I'd throw this out there. One of the moms at the BF group I go to raves about this - Nested Bean Swaddle - and says it made a huge difference for her DD. www.nestedbean.com/collections/zen-swaddle-blanket.
DS1 is on our bed and despite us agreeing that DH would be on return to bed duty (he doesn't get up at all with DS2 MOTN) he did it once, DS screamed and came back and now seems to be there to stay. I am so pissed off. Right through my pregnancy pain and pregsomnia, I still kept up the consistency of taking DS back to bed if he came to our room in the night. Its the one parenting thing I've asked DH to take over. I know it takes effort and disrupts you sleep DH, but telling a 3.5yr old he can't sleep with us then letting sleep with us isn't going to help him learn to sleep in his own bed!!!
Made worse that DS1 is sick and I am trying my best not to catch his cold. Not easy when he wants to snuggle and breathe iny face all night. So I guess I'll be up for longer after I get DS2 back to bed. Grrr...
We're up for I guess the first feeding. Tried to go to bed at 9 but ended up stuck in cluster feeding until midnight. I'm so over BF right now. Counting down to adding in pumping and letting H handle one feeding a day the second she hits 3 weeks.
Not sure If you're waiting until 3 weeks for a very specific reason, but I introduced a bottle to DS1 at 2 weeks. Just one a day at bedtime. It never interfered with nursing. LC said it was ok to introduce one once baby had been successfully nursing for 2 weeks. The key word there is successfully, so not latch issues, etc. If you want to try earlier for your sanity, I think you'd be ok!
bazinga that looks interesting, might have to check it out, thank you. Also I'm sorry for yh, that sounds incredibly frustrating, especially since you worked so hard on consistency.
meeggaannw sorry for the sleep issues, that has to be so frustrating. At least you know you can hopefully get some sleep again when yh is back on duty, so light at the end of the tunnel? I find it interesting the difference in timeline for giving a bottle to bf baby. I've heard 4 weeks but agree that earlier is probably not a big deal if there aren't issues. I'm have to run some errands by mil house today (30 mins away) so I was going to drop DD at her house. I have to buy a 40 lb bag of cat food and want to sell a bunch of mat clothes, so I thought it would be easier w/o lugging a car seat. I don't think I'll be gone long but I'm considering leaving 2 oz of milk jic. I have a feeling my mil will give to her and then I won't be able to get a nursing session in and it will screw things up, why am I so paranoid about messing up supply? Ideally I could come back, grab baby and go home to nurse, bc mil is weird about bf'ing so that makes it uncomfortable. But I really should just whip out the boob and nurse her there, everyone send me IDGAF vibes lol.
geauxtigers79 sorry for the snoring. MH isn't normally bad about snoring but he's had a cold that is causing it more and I usually hit him multiple times per night. Any chance you could sleep in another room? bazinga you need to bitch out yh to do bed duty, get with it dude! I was thinking I need to write out a list of everything I do daily and the amount I sleep and give to H so he can see, and then put his duties on there too, just to put into perspective. I like making lists though lol.
Hugs silvermelody, I hope you can work things through soon. I'm curious about the chiro for LO. What will they work on?
Her neck has some limited mobility to turn both directions (not as bad as DS), and her jaw is super tight. It's making it so that she moved her whole head slightly every time she sucks versus just moving her jaw. More effort for her, makes her tired and waste calories. So the chiropractor works to loosen all of that up. Then if she's still latching poorly we have the tongue looked at
vlagroupie, I will be bitching again today! I am grateful that he does so much else around the house and since a fight the other might has stepped up more to support me too. But having DS1 sleep well will benefit ALL of us. And as I reminded myself a couple of hours ago, carrying a sleeping 40lb kid across the house is not something I should be doing 3 weeks post CS!
I feel you @geaitigers79. DHs snoring is obnoxious. Some nights it bugs me way more than others. It's hard not to feel resentful when I'm up nursing and he's snoring away beside us.
Omg bazinga. My DH does that with out DD too. We have an agreement that she doesn't sleep in our bed...but he's so weak at night when he's tired and sometimes caves just to get her to stop whining. The last time he did it (prior to B being born), I slipped out and slept on the couch. She spent the rest of the night sleeping sideways and kicking him. I got more sleep than he did and I didn't even have to say "I told you so" in the morning.
Post by thelittleredm on Jan 25, 2017 10:42:01 GMT -5
bazinga, W always tries sticking his hands and my boob in his mouth at one time. I've gotten to where I can pin one hand against his ear and have the other pinned between my chest and his belly until I get him latched on.
silvermelody, I'm sorry to hear that the news wasn't so great from the LC. I'm glad you have a plan, though.
bazinga, W always tries sticking his hands and my boob in his mouth at one time. I've gotten to where I can pin one hand against his ear and have the other pinned between my chest and his belly until I get him latched on.
silvermelody, I'm sorry to hear that the news wasn't so great from the LC. I'm glad you have a plan, though.
Ok glad my kid isn't the only one sticking her hands in her mouth too before latching. I'm literally like the boob is here kid!
bazinga, W always tries sticking his hands and my boob in his mouth at one time. I've gotten to where I can pin one hand against his ear and have the other pinned between my chest and his belly until I get him latched on.
silvermelody, I'm sorry to hear that the news wasn't so great from the LC. I'm glad you have a plan, though.
Ok glad my kid isn't the only one sticking her hands in her mouth too before latching. I'm literally like the boob is here kid!
I have to burrito swaddle mine with arms at her sides which makes her super mad, but otherwise she literally pushes herself away from me the whole time or has her hand in her mouth so that I can't see to latch her.
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