MOTN 6/29 - So Sweet When You SLEEP!

[carolyngrace]

Ok so I'm determined to create a more active nightly MOTN thread similar to what May 15 does. So if you're interested just chime in whenever! Let us know how DB did today and what you anticipate tonight being like. Then check back in to bitch if you're up nursing in the MOTN

Bonus: share a pic of LO sleeping peacefully!

This is Oscar during his 6pm- 10pm nap. Yeah, I'm screwed tonight!

[silv3rlining]

Attempting to go to bed now. ..LO actually slept in the swing from about 730pm-10pm. That's the longest she's tolerated the swing. She gave me about an hour in it last night. Si there's hope (normally she is only content 5 mins in it). We've been having to bed share since she won't sleep unless she's on me. She's currently asleep on my chest but I'm hoping to live her to the RnP. It's a much different experience than what I had with DS.

[erbear]

This was tonight's heavy, peaceful slumber that I interrupted to wake her to eat. Grr. Stupid me!

She let us sleep maybe a half hour before she was up ready to eat again. She really had no interest in the boob and cried and cried and we just have her a bottle of BM. H needs to be up early for a two hour drive he has tomorrow so I'm going to be on my own a lot tonight. Fingers crossed she sleeps in her usual 3-4 hour stretches!

[musicfrk2002]

We have things worked out to where I try and get a nap in from 8 pm or so until whenever LO wakes up after H comes to bed, usually midnight or 1 am. So, of course it is 9:30 and I can't seem to fall asleep. It's going to be a long night.

[mrsmonogrammed]

DB took TWO two hour naps this afternoon....I'm scared what this means for the night:( also scared because she hasn't been cluster feeding every hour like she was the past 2 nights....FX she still gets full enough to make it to our 1AM feed!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Jun 29, 2015 21:37:42 GMT -5 musicfrk2002 said:

We have things worked out to where I try and get a nap in from 8 pm or so until whenever LO wakes up after H comes to bed, usually midnight or 1 am. So, of course it is 9:30 and I can't seem to fall asleep. It's going to be a long night.

My H and I also have a little "schedule" worked out where I'll feed her around 8 or so, go upstairs to bed and then he'll bring her to me around 10 for one last feed before bed...it's been nice to get that little "nap" in without having to worry about the baby:)
Good luck getting to sleep!!

[shahoi]

Jun 29, 2015 21:22:44 GMT -5 carolyngrace said:

Ok so I'm determined to create a more active nightly MOTN thread similar to what May 15 does. So if you're interested just chime in whenever! Let us know how DB did today and what you anticipate tonight being like. Then check back in to bitch if you're up nursing in the MOTN

Bonus: share a pic of LO sleeping peacefully!

This is Oscar during his 6pm- 10pm nap. Yeah, I'm screwed tonight!

Such a sweet little guy! Hopefully he will be extra sleepy tonight so you can get some rest!

[shahoi]

LO took a 2 hour nap before her 9:00 feeding. She's currently asleep on my chest, but I'm scared to swaddle her and put her down just yet. I'll give her another 10 minutes of cuddles Tonight is the 1st night that we don't have to wake her every 2.5 hours for feedings, so hopefully she will give me a long stretch of sleep!

Here's my sleepy sweetie a few days ago


And this is just a bonus because I love this picture

[Deleted]

9:10 here and P just nursed and is falling asleep on my shoulder. I'm about to put him in the RnP and then try to sleep myself. I hope tonight is better than last night, when he woke up at 1:00 to eat, then again at 3:00 and didn't go back to sleep until 6:00 am. FX I'm not on here again in several hours.

[baytosa2013]

DD did not sleep between her 8 and 10pm feedings so I'm hoping for at least a nice 4 hour stretch! DH woke her up when he got home and she's fussed ever since. He waits too long to feed her and she goes ape shit so I've spent the last 30 mins calming her. I'd post a pic but I'm on mobile

[mrskblack11]

10:40 and we are finishing up a feeding. We normally do another feeding at 1, 4 then 6.

[ladysif]

Nursing the bottomless pit now. If he manages to not poop and make room immediately, I will actually have a shot at some decent sleep. Got one three hour stretch last night and would kill for that again. We moved him to his crib last night and I think that helped us all.

No clue about posting pictures mobile, sorry! But your little ones are sweet as can be, ladies who did post pics.

[bendherova]

clusterfed all day today, and he'll have to be woken up at 3am for the last of the hospital tests, including a heel prick for the newborn screening/pku test.

We'll for sure be up!


Also, DH is snoring like a beast right now. Ugh.

[tulips114]

DS has been super sleepy the past 2 days following what I think was the 3 week growth spurt. I always worry that he won't sleep at night when he sleeps so much during the day. But I always worried about it with the girls too and they were usually fine.

We implemented a bed time routine that keeps him awake for a bit before getting put down for the night, and I think that's helping with getting a good stretch of sleep. He goes down around 8 and I dream feed at 10:30/11 before I go to bed, then he's up sometime between 2:30-3:30. Then again in the 6am hour which is when I get up for the day and get the girls off to daycare. He usually sleeps until his next feed 9:30/10 am.

He didn't eat very much for his dream feed just now, so I'm guessing he'll be up around 2:30.

[wegrowsheep]

We're in the thick of the 3 week growth spurt. DS's intervals were anywhere from 45 minutes to 90 minutes, starting at 4am this morning. His longest nap today was an hour. And naturally, DH is sleeping with him right now, while I'm awake with the older kids trying to get them to sleep. ?

[bendherova]

The nurse was able to get the heel prick test done now, since his jaundice check was so low. So, I just nursed him into a milk coma. We should be able to get a solid 2-3h chunk of sleep right now. We can only hope.

[ravinraven216]

Managed to get DS to sleep at 11:00, only to have to wake him at midnight for his medication. 1.5 hours later and he's still cluster feeding. DH is warming a bottle of our "emergency" BM. We'll see if that helps.

[erbear]

LO was up again at 1 and fought me to feed and then latched and fell asleep. h went back to bed. Not looking forward to trying the next side!

[alayne926]

Apparently LO is only capable of sleeping on me tonight. She slept MAYBE 45 min and was up screaming. She's been gassy all day, so I think that's the culprit.

[Widget123]

Almost 2am here and getting ready to go back to bed after the first MOTN wake up. Not too shabby, but last night was much worse

[erbear]

She fed okay-ish on the other side (less tears!), took her supplement, and now is happily rocking in her swing while I pump. I might be able to do this on my own after all!

[mrsmonogrammed]

1st MOTN feeding/pumping happening over here...I'm so ready to not have to wake her up at night anymore-__-
FX this is a quick lump in session so I can go back to bed and get some sleep before my alarm goes off for our 3:45 feed!

[pghtruelove]

J woke me up to eat. It was time to feed her with my sore side. Ugh. Now I cant get back to sleep, and not even from baby. Stupid SO is watching YouTube videos on the TV. So annoying. Just becaue you don't have to feed the baby doesn't mwan you shouldn't sleep at normal times so you can help with other things. ?

[a5swanson]

LO just slept from 9:30-2am!! I will usually feed her or give DH pumped milk for her 9 pm feeding and then DH is in charge until he goes to bed at around 12:30 so I am guaranteed at least that amt of time to sleep. It looks like a lot of us have that arrangement. It makes such a huge difference! I will say I really miss DH though. Once we eat dinner it's like "ok here's the baby! Goodnight." I just need to find different ways and times to have quality time with him.
So this time instead of waking up to be fed when DH put her down, she slept for almost 2 more hours!

We just got through our 3 wk growth spurt and she's seeming to have longer stretches through feeds--usually at least 2 hrs up to 4.5.

[wormgerm]

It's 3:20. He's been up for 2 hours. Ate half an hour on each side. Wide awake now. Crabby overtired husband. Cool guys. Cool.

Edit: it's 4:10. Might finally be getting some sleep soon.

[alayne926]

Ugh...what a night...we are still awake and just ate again. I think we are just going to be on the couch tonight...

[periwinkledaydreams]

Its 330am and me n my Jazzy girl are straight chillin MOTN style after a glorious 3.5 hour stretch of sleep. I mean Im kind of kidding about the chillin part as she is in varying states between frantically losing her mind screaming at me, eating every last drop of milk I have and shitting absolutely everywhere, but I guess maybe the 3.5 hours of sleep I just had and the gigantic bowl of frosted flakes Im now eating in between melt downs have me not minding so much. *poof!*
So lately shes been doing this thing where she barely poops in her diaper at all, and only ever poops during a diaper change. Then she blasts like an incredible amount of poop it seems impossible it could be coming from this tiny body! Im borderline on calling the pediatrician about it cause I wonder if she can't go on her own without the manuevering that happens at changing time? Anyone experience this?

[dogmama22]

periwinkledaydreams have you tried bicycling her legs for a bit before changing her? That might help prevent the pooping during the change.

[Deleted]

LO just slept 830-130! Her first five hour stretch. I just BF her and she also is right back to sleep.

Crossing my fingers that DS doesn't wake up too early this morning. He's been waking up at 5am lately crying.

[dogmama22]

Well LO ate last starting at 9pm. I set an alarm for 2am because even though he's well past birth weight, our ped said he can only do one 5 hour stretch at night. Wellll I must have turned that alarm off because I just woke up at 4 to a little grunting from LO. Woops! He did chug once he was on the boob and then managed to spit up all over us both, requiring a change of clothes. Oh well, I needed that stretch of sleep since I had a migraine half of the day yesterday.
ETA: here's the little guy napping on Sunday