MOTN weekend edition

[carolyngrace]

Why not start a new one

DB had a shitty napping day due to how busy we were. Just 20/30 minutes here and there. He typically has at least two LONG naps, so I wonder what this will mean for our night?

He woke up almost every hour most of last night too. Hopefully he's exhausted and we'll both get some sleep tonight.

Good luck ladies!

P.s. I can hear his hiccups from down the hall. I wonder if he can stay asleep with hiccups.

[ravinraven216]

J has been awake most of the day and not for lack of trying. He's been eating almost non-stop since 7:45 this morning. I don't think he's slept more than 5 hours since then. He's fallen asleep nursing (again), but I suspect the moment I try to burp him and put him in his crib he'll wake up and start to fuss and cry. I'm exhaustedand it's not yet 10pm.

[baytosa2013]

DD literally just woke up and is fussy. It's her bed time so we will be going upstairs to get in to jimmies and ge a nice warm bottle before we rock back to sleep for the night!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Working on putting DD down right now....we're in the rocking phase to get into a deeper sleep so we're almost there!

[bendherova]

we also had a cat-nap kind of day, but he went to bed for the night without a fight at the usu time. Let's keep our FX!!

[pghtruelove]

Just finished bed night routine and she's out in her rock n play. Why am I not tired. I should sleep! I barely slept last night! My brain is crazy.

[lunalovegood]

LO has been sleeping like a champ, like 8-9 hours at night. I am not getting any more sleep though because my part-time work from home job has blown up lately so I have been staying up late to finish my work.

[ThePalindromicOne]

I'm on night 2 of 4 as a solo momma (hubs out of town)... I put him down a little earlier than I usually do (because honestly I just didn't know what to do with him anymore tonight) so we'll see how that changes things... I'll probably have an extra MOTN feeding because of it. Ah well.

[musicfrk2002]

Managed to put J in his crib slightly awake, and he fell asleep! Without a fight! Of course, he is probably exhausted from screaming all day instead of napping...

Also told H he gets to do MOTN feedings tonight so hopefully I can get a bit of sleep once I finish washing bottles and getting a load of baby stuff in the washer.

[Widget123]

Dear DH I shouldn't have to give you sexual favors to get you to help me out at night and I'm not going to reward you for bad behavior. That is all.

[wegrowsheep]

ThePalindromicOne Ditto on the solo momma routine here, but I have one, and DH has the other 2 for a camp out at the farm (in a full size teepee, with cousins).

So LO is finally asleep (cried in the car all the way home), and I have cleaned up (foot bath because I was in the garden) but no shower because last time I tried I got about 90 seconds into it before he started screaming. Also, little glass of fave wine (Cupcake Muscato) and a bit of chocolate.
I haven't had to speak at all in an hour except to whisper sweet lullabies to LO. My introvert is happy. Sleep baby!

Here's to surviving the first 6 weeks, cheers!

[pghtruelove]

Jul 18, 2015 0:30:55 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

I'm going to throat-punch DH shortly. O is just going through inconsolable fussing/crying stage in the evening which H finds "really hard". But doesn't do anything about. Keeps telling me that " babies don't just cry, he must be hungry" thus making me feel like shit. Err, no. He just nursed for 3 hours straight, you won't die if you hold our crying baby for 10 minutes while I pee. He's now giving me the cold shoulder b/c I freaked out on him after asking him 3 times to fetch the paci from downstairs to soothe our screaming child and he sits on his phone playing games. O is better behaved tonight than he is. Lol.

This exactly. Please hold the baby while I eat and go to the bathroom. Also,SO, when you do take the screaming baby from me SHE USUALY STOPS CRYING!

Just woke Jules up because my boobs were so uncomfortable and I had to feed her. She only nurses for abot 2-3 mins on each side. Which is fine it was all I needed. Hopefully she just continues to sleep. And hopefully I can fall back to sleep. :-) good luck ladies!!

[ladysif]

Present! Nothing exciting happening. I have realized that DS1 is a major sleep talker - every night this week I have heard him say something during this MOTN feeding. And we're quiet, he's not actually waking up. Pretty interesting, the things he says! Nightmares are about toys being taken away or having to leave a fun place. Tonight was a random statement about dinosaurs.

[whoopsadaisy]

Rocking LO after first MOTN feeding....in just a few hours it will be 6 weeks since giving birth to him. That's insane, it's gone so quickly but there were a lot of these nights I felt like would never end. 6 wks feels like a milestone. Probably because I feel like I keep reading that after 6 weeks hay start sleeping longer, settling into a routine. He's never gone more than 4 hours at a stretch and he's only done that twice. I'd love it if we were headed for that soon, but I'm thinking it's more likely I'll be up again in two hours like normal for the foreseeable future.

[alayne926]

Up for first feeding...she's taking FOR.EV.ER to eat...

[baytosa2013]

Jul 18, 2015 0:30:55 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

I'm going to throat-punch DH shortly. O is just going through inconsolable fussing/crying stage in the evening which H finds "really hard". But doesn't do anything about. Keeps telling me that " babies don't just cry, he must be hungry" thus making me feel like shit. Err, no. He just nursed for 3 hours straight, you won't die if you hold our crying baby for 10 minutes while I pee. He's now giving me the cold shoulder b/c I freaked out on him after asking him 3 times to fetch the paci from downstairs to soothe our screaming child and he sits on his phone playing games. O is better behaved tonight than he is. Lol.

This was us last week. DH came home from work and took the baby from me like a martyr after she'd been crying all day and I hadctextchim I wasn't sure if I was cut out for this. I was a crying heap on the flor when he got home because he told me not to get frustrated and give up on our DD. that comment pushed me over the edge especially when I'm doing everything and he's relaxing after work. We had a come to Jesus talk after all that about how I'm going back to work in 2 weeks and he'll need to step it up. Life is different now buddy.

I hope that you are able to get DH to come around. I know mine is trying but I feel like he's desperately trying to talk himself in to believing that our old life still exists and this addition was no big deal.

[jessila]

Dear tooth abscess: I have a three and a half week old therefore I do not need you to keep me awake with pain. K? Thanks! Even better is my little guy is sleeping in longer chunks soooo stop throbbing

[carolyngrace]

New night, same DH- coming to bed at 4am. This is his version of not accepting the change in our lives. Maybe I would have liked some help at 7am when our baby wakes up, since I do that all week while you work? Now I'll feel like an ass getting him up.

On a positive note DB slept 4 & 3 hrs. Much better than last night already.

[sully326]

DD slept for almost 5hrs & is now up to eat. She just sucked down 2.5ounces so fast I didn't even realize. She better not puke on me when she burps....

Oh, & I'm pretty sure she's pooping. It's almost 5am here -_-

[ravinraven216]

After eating every hour between 6pm and 1am, we had a 3 hour long sleep between 1:30 and 4:30. It's a Festivus miracle! Now to get him back asleep...

Sorry so many SO's are being jerk faces about things. During our fight last night I yelled at DH about how he wakes up if I cry, but sleeps through baby screams (which triggered him to hit the front door and start bawling - I think he felt guilty about how soundly he sleeps compared to me). Tonight I've been making a point to wake him for diaper changes while I prep for nursing. Hopefully that helps him learn to respond more.

[erbear]

LO didn't nap well yesterday since she was too busy eating every hour so she fell asleep at 9. She was awake at 10:30, 1:30, and now 4:30. I had h give her a bottle at 1:30, though; she nurses for like 45 minutes and I was beat.

She's asleep now when I need her to nurse since I'm engorged!

[Flick]

Kill me. I thought tonight was going to be a good one. M slept from 10:30-4 then woke up screaming. The only time she's stopped is after I changed her diaper and fed her then immediately started right back up again. SO is sound asleep and elbowed me in the back so hard it knocked the wind out of me when I was laying down with M trying to calm her. I'm so annoyed. He says he shouldn't have to do MOTN because he works all week and wants a break on the weekends. I asked him when I get a break and he says 'you get a break for two-three hours throughout the day. It's not that hard to get stuff done and take care of M'. I want to smother him with my pillow.

[musicfrk2002]

Jul 18, 2015 4:21:30 GMT -5 Flick said:

He says he shouldn't have to do MOTN because he works all week and wants a break on the weekends. I asked him when I get a break and he says 'you get a break for two-three hours throughout the day. It's not that hard to get stuff done and take care of M'. I want to smother him with my pillow.

Oh hell no...that isn't how it works. I hope you set him straight on that.

[musicfrk2002]

Saturdays plan: teach H a better choice of order to things when taking care of J on the middle of the night. Then maybe I won't be awake .at 430 am too. Idk how everyone else does things, but I make the bottle before getting J up to change his diaper. Less screaming that way, since he usually isn't fully awake and therefore not full blown screaming yet

[mirage86]

Jul 18, 2015 4:33:36 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

Lots of sympathy love-tits up in here! Looks like its "shitty SO Saturday" all round!

E is asleep but I'm on here, and seriously, all of these comments have me saying "me too! I can't believe him!" Why does it seem ok to them to just pretend they don't have new responsibilities too? I've been doing my best not to complain or nag DH, but it really is making me crazy. You're a parent now too, please act like it!
Most of the time, he only holds the baby if I suggest it (hey... Maybe you should hold him while he's resting and happy, let him get used to your smell and touch) or if I'm crying or ready to yell at him for not ever helping me. Forget about remembering diaper changes or ever giving a bottle of pumped milk. He literally shuts down every time I've ever mentioned him feeding E and bonding with him that way. Why?

[Flick]

Oh he definitely got an earful, doesn't make a difference to him though. He works 4 am- 2pm mon-fri then comes home and stilk doesn't help. How is it fair for him to have all this downtime after work plus all fucking weekend. The only time he helps is when I yell at him to help, then he gets a shitty attitude about while he does whatever i asked him to do. Must be real fucking nice to get 11 hours of sleep on the weekend. Lol @ him thinking we'll ever have a second if he keeps this shit up. I can't even imagine taking care of a newborn and a toddler at the same time.

[Flick]

Sorry to all the ladies with difficult SOs. Hopefully they can get their asses in gear here soon. So tired of being a single mom with TWO kids. Especially when one is a 25 year old grown man.

[sugarkissed]

I just woke up holding the baby, boob out, with no recollection of her waking up or me grabbing her from the bassinet. No idea how long she slept or ate.. Apparently I was really tired. Oops.

[carolyngrace]

Jul 18, 2015 5:06:09 GMT -5 Flick said:

Sorry to all the ladies with difficult SOs. Hopefully they can get their asses in gear here soon. So tired of being a single mom with TWO kids. Especially when one is a 25 year old grown man.

This is more of an acknowledgement than an excuse, but 25 is young for men. DH is 33 and I'm so glad we didn't have a baby at 25. He would have been a nightmare. Hope your DH gets it together! And mine too obviously.

[baytosa2013]

Jul 18, 2015 4:21:30 GMT -5 Flick said:

Kill me. I thought tonight was going to be a good one. M slept from 10:30-4 then woke up screaming. The only time she's stopped is after I changed her diaper and fed her then immediately started right back up again. SO is sound asleep and elbowed me in the back so hard it knocked the wind out of me when I was laying down with M trying to calm her. I'm so annoyed. He says he shouldn't have to do MOTN because he works all week and wants a break on the weekends. I asked him when I get a break and he says 'you get a break for two-three hours throughout the day. It's not that hard to get stuff done and take care of M'. I want to smother him with my pillow.

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That idea right there could not be further from the truth. I thought I'd get all kids of stuff done and I'm lucky if I get a shower and a meal. DH I think also thought it was just so easy and that he could feed her and change her and he'd have all this time to relax after hahaha I left her with him last Friday night for 3.5 hours while I went to a friends house. I got home and asked how'd it go? He just looked at me with puppy dog eyes and said she cried and fussed almost the whole time! Oh really? They do that? His tune really has changed dramatically since last week between that and our fight.