LO nursed 11 times yesterday but last has a bottle when we went to sleep at 10. She fell asleep around 11 and I just woke her up to nurse at 2:30 because I was pretty sure my boobs we're going to detach from my body - she last nursed at 8:00 yesterday! Ouch!
Post by baytosa2013 on Jul 13, 2015 2:12:38 GMT -5
Working on our first feeding of the night. It's way earlier than normal for us because SIL has been helping out. our schedule is all off so DD ended up going down earlier than normal for her last feed. Which means I'll be back in 2 1/2 hours instead of in the AM.
I'm here, just finishing up the first session. Just had a thunderstorm come through - my classic mom move of the night is waking up at the first rumble of thunder still miles away, remembering the sandbox is uncovered, and dragging my butt out of bed and outside to cover it up before the rain started. The menfolk of the house slept through it all.
Stuff like that is why I sometimes still struggle with the responsibility of being mom and at the same time am in awe of it. DH just isn't wired like that.
Post by musicfrk2002 on Jul 13, 2015 3:31:49 GMT -5
J woke up, ate, and I got him back to sleep in under an hour. Gotta be some kind of record this week for us. Now, if I could fall back asleep, that would be great.
Okay ombradellarosa when you say marathon feeding do you mean just non stop eating like not being satiated by the feed so not sleeping in between feeds and needing to nurse again within like half hour or some really short amount of time? Cause if so then girl I feel you and oh my gosh Im not alone! I thought I was alone and something was going terribly wrong!
She did fall asleep but just long enough to fool me into a false sense of security. I would think, "Good, she's asleep, I'll hold her upright for twenty minutes and they lay her down" and she would wake up before twenty minutes passed. But otherwise, exactly what you said. She was nursing the entire time except for those three less-than-twenty-minute sleeps. I thought I was going to lose my mind--and my nipples. I'm used to her doing that for four hours in the early morning but six hours threw me for a loop.
Post by billyhorrible on Jul 13, 2015 4:33:19 GMT -5
I swear my kid knows it's Sunday night. Sunday nights are always the worst, compounded by the fact I have to be "on" Mondays since I'm up at 6am with both kids.
Last night: up at 3:30 for 20 min. Up at 6:30 for 30 min.
Tonight: up at 10:30, 12:30, 1:30, poops himself awake at 2:15...
Post by ombradellarosa on Jul 13, 2015 5:09:11 GMT -5
So this is madness. DD has been asleep for four hours and I'm awake. Why?! I'm even tired now! Of course, now I am also hungry. I think I kept wiring for that next marathon feed and it hasn't come. Now it will come and I won't have sleepy while I had the chance. I am pre-kicking myself. And going to get some food.
Basically been up since 3:30, it's 7 now. He slept for an hour in between but I had to rock the RnP most of the time. So yay for 4ish hours of sleep for me over the whole night.
wormgerm that's tough! Can you exchange your RnP for the automated rocking one? It's $30 more but my sleep is worth that to me lol. We did one night of sitting on the floor rocking the RnP before we were like, screw this, and headed straight for Babies R Us to exchange it!
Back to regular MOTN schedule. It was nice to have help over the weekend! I went to bed at 9:30 and DH put H to bed at 11:00. She slept till 2:00, then dream fed and went back down from 2:30-5:45 and 6:15-7:30. Now I'm shoving cereal down my throat while she whines in the RnP. All in all I'll call it a win.
H turns 4 weeks today and I'm wondering if she's heading into her 6-week growth spurt. I think somebody said previously that it usually starts between 4.5 and 5.5 weeks? She's been a little fussier than usual, always wants to be held when awake, and eats every hour or so.
DH and LO were up til midnight while I slept (yay!) and I did feedings at 2:30, 5:30 and 7:30. She went back down really well, but the whole shebang takes up to an hour now that she is so hungry... eating 2-4 oz per feed. I should be napping now while she is sleeping, but I bought the wonder weeks while I was waiting for her to fall asleep and I am excited to start reading!
mcp6286 I didn't even know that was a thing. Thankfully that time last night was the only time he ever needed that much stimulation to sleep so hopefully it was a fluke and not our new normal.
mcp6286 I didn't even know that was a thing. Thankfully that time last night was the only time he ever needed that much stimulation to sleep so hopefully it was a fluke and not our new normal.
FX for you but keep the original packaging just in case! lol H is sitting in hers right now. The best part is that it plugs in, so you don't need a hundred batteries! The thing plays music and white noise, vibrates, and rocks automatically for set time periods. It's awesome!
mcp6286 I splurged and bought that one for this LO. I also have the basic one from DD. but I've never actually used any of the special features with LO yet... Oops.
mcp6286 I didn't even know that was a thing. Thankfully that time last night was the only time he ever needed that much stimulation to sleep so hopefully it was a fluke and not our new normal.
FX for you but keep the original packaging just in case! lol H is sitting in hers right now. The best part is that it plugs in, so you don't need a hundred batteries! The thing plays music and white noise, vibrates, and rocks automatically for set time periods. It's awesome!
What is this rnp called? I didn't know there was such a thing
LO is pretty noisy, too. She sleeps on H's side of the bed so I can still hear her, but I'm not waking up for every single sniffle or movement. I learned after her first two nights home that I couldn't sleep well next to her. It doesn't help that I can't see without glasses/contacts so I was waking up, putting on my glasses, and obsessing.
LO woke up twice tonight, 2:30 and 5. She's being really lazy right now, though.
Post by mrsmonogrammed on Jul 14, 2015 4:16:59 GMT -5
So I just woke H up to feed Charlotte a bottle and he sleepily goes "but I just fed her!" while trying to snuggle back under the covers....yeah welcome to my life, jackass. WAKE UP!
It's not the MOTN, but I fear I'm in trouble tonight. LO has been sleeping all day. Basically since 8:30 last night. He's waking to eat just fine, but he's just going right back to sleep. He'll probably be ready to party all night. Sigh.
It's not the MOTN, but I fear I'm in trouble tonight. LO has been sleeping all day. Basically since 8:30 last night. He's waking to eat just fine, but he's just going right back to sleep. He'll probably be ready to party all night. Sigh.
I had a day like that yesterday. DB only woke up for an hour or so in between naps (was awake a total of 4 hrs I think, most of which was nursing). Then his first night sleep was 5 hrs long! (And he went back for two more 2hr stretches) So you never know
Post by ravinraven216 on Jul 14, 2015 18:53:20 GMT -5
DS slept 4 hours - the longest he ever slept in one go - after our LC visit where he chugged 5oz. I'm hoping he'll manage something similar this evening/night. Fingers crossed this nursing session we're having at the moment does the trick and I can tidy up a bit and go to bed early.
My kid has been nursing every hour since 4:30. She won't let me put her down - she starts hysterically screaming. We've tried gas drops, swaddling, shh-ing, rocking...the only thing that calms her is nursing. She'll fall asleep, I'll pass her on to my H, and she'll wake up and scream again. We're in for it tonight, I think.
DD is in the three week growth spurt I think. Usually she eats every three hours but now it's every 1-2. Used to get a good 6 hour stretch of sleep at night, now she's up so much I feel like a zombie.
Okay, apparently there's a four week growth spurt, too? Either that or she's doing her wonder week leap early. I just want my sweet baby back!
It took h over an hour to get her to sleep and that was after a bottle after nursing for an hour. She's WIDE awake nursing now, and she's usually sleepy.
Well, despite sleeping all day yesterday LO had a completely normal night. He woke to eat about 7:15pm so he nursed then we did bath, etc he was asleep in bed by 9, I dream fed him around 11, he woke at his usual 3am and 7am. Now he's sleeping again.
Same here. He's also fussier than usual, and harder to get to sleep than he typically is. Can't wait to be past this.
Putting her to sleep has been awful. She fights it so hard.
We are here too except she's not sleeping like she normally does during the day. She was up ALL DAY yesterday except for a nap that lasted about an hour while we strolled target. She just wants to eat and be awake fussing. I've been steeling myself for this 6 week thing and its here!
Post by carolyngrace on Jul 15, 2015 8:07:27 GMT -5
It's the morning technically, but DB usually sleeps a final 2 hour stretch from 8-11am or so. Today he decided 7:30 is a great time to be "up" but only to cry and scream. I could handle getting up early if he was actually up, but getting up to bounce and shush him for two hours is fucking exhausting.
I ended up letting him cry for a full five minutes (which felt awful, he was absolutely losing it) so I could eat and pee. I mean, he is crying with me, too, but not that hard
Nursing for the 4th (5th?) time to see if it will finally do the trick.
It's worse because DH was sick last night so I was solo for an exhausting longer than normal bedtime..
Okay, apparently there's a four week growth spurt, too? Either that or she's doing her wonder week leap early. I just want my sweet baby back!
It took h over an hour to get her to sleep and that was after a bottle after nursing for an hour. She's WIDE awake nursing now, and she's usually sleepy.
I think mine is in the growth spurt early too. This is her 5th week of life (she was 4 weeks old on Monday) so I guess that's about right...This kid is driving me crazy!!! Eating every hour and refusing to nap, leading to super fussiness. Ugh.
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