MOTN - Remember when weekends meant rest?!

[kemdupuis]

Jul 25, 2015 1:29:11 GMT -5 stcyct said:

Jul 24, 2015 21:36:02 GMT -5 kemdupuis said:

Oh man I am with you ladies on praying for more than 2 hours of sleep at a time. DH finally offered to get up with LO for the MOTN feeds, but I am saving my pumped milk for a wedding next weekend. Nice timing. Hopefully our babes will take pity on us and give us some rest! Good luck everyone!

I hear you on saving pumped milk. Mine is almost gone and my anxiety level is hitting the roof. I have been back to work three weeks but also went on the mini pill. It has definitely been effecting my supply. Pretty much cut what I was able to pump comfortably in half so I have been pumping like crazy to keep up. We have a birthday tomorrow and I only have 4 oz pumped right now which is good for maybe one feeding tops. So either we are gone for only one, I pump more before then, or there is supplementing in our future. Not to mention I have nothing for work Monday. Ugh.

ugh I am sorry. This is what I am dreading. I just had my appointment yesterday, and am going back on the pill as well. My biggest fear is that it will destroy my supply. I have to say that my fear of getting pregnant again is much stronger, so I guess I'll deal, but it sucks. I've read that eating oats can help boost supply, so I've been eating a ton of oatmeal. Good luck to you!! Ps. Why are you back at work so soon?! Summer school?! You cray cray

[erbear]

We got another good stretch from 9:30-1:30 tonight. She was OUT at 9:30 and I think it's because she hardly napped all day yesterday. She was too busy eating!

[clbehenna]

Baby boy just slept from 9-2! I guess his nonstop eating yesterday paid off! Hoping for another good stretch!

[carolyngrace]

Switching from the swing to crib at night is going well overall, but the longest DB has slept in it is 3 hours. He's only done 4+ hours a few times ever though so maybe it's not because he's in the crib that it hasn't happened.

DH is set to do the 6am bottle and stay up with DB if needed. He came to bed at 1am so we'll see. I'm going to try really hard to keep sleeping and let him handle it.

[bendherova]

DH is OOT this week, so I've lost my MOTN diaper change and swaddling helper.

However, after nursing hourly on sat afternoon, L just slept from 8-2:45am, his longest stretch yet! (8-1 is typical, and still awesome)

it took him twice as long as usu to nurse and get back to sleep, but FX, I think his next wake up will be after 6a! Woo!

go baby go!

[sully326]

A slept from 7:30p-11:00p, then from 11:30p-4:00a. I'm feeding her now & hoping for another good stretch!

[pghtruelove]

J has been sleeping like a champ all night. I've woken her up multiple times to feed her. Oh yeah... I'm not sleeping because something happened in the apartment so now it's damp and we have bugs coming in so I'm up paranoid and cleaning the crap out of the place. Having panic attacks about bugs getting on the baby. I hope I find a house soon.

[ombradellarosa]

I thought she was never going to stay asleep. This naughty baby woke up when I put her in the bassinet but it snoozing away next to me in bed now. I don't know how I'm going to get her to sleep anywhere else now. I am holding on tight to "you can't spoil a newborn" because I keep feeling like I've messed up my baby.

[ombradellarosa]

Jul 26, 2015 3:31:35 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

I'm horribly engorged at night now tho since the Clusterfeeding and longer night stretches. Did anyone else notice this?

Yes! It was so bad. I had a huge plugged duct on the right side and was trying to nurse it out and then got one on the left because I was block feeding on the right. And both were so painfully engorged. I'm sorry you're experiencing the same. It was the only time I've ever Wanted LO to wake up and nurse more! Pumping did NOT help either, I was trying not to drain the breast but just get enough for some relief and it made it worse. It's gone now though, didn't even last the day. 

[erbear]

I also get painfully engorged at night and I figured it had to do with her cluster feeding during the day. I usually wake up before she does because it hurts! She is a cluster feeding champion; all I do during the day sometimes is feed her.

[missjenniebean]

V woke up to be cuddled back to sleep as normal but the last 3 nights I can't get her to sleep in her crib for more than 30 mins after she wakes or at a time. Exhausting nights. Zzzz....

[mrsmonogrammed]

Yesterday night it was pee on my side of the bed, last night it was spit up allllll down the front of my shirt. You better believe that I stuck a burp cloth under my tank top and rolled over and went back to sleep. Motherhood is gross.

[carolyngrace]

So DH got up at 7am with DB as planned.

Annoying parts: had to wake him up, so of course I woke up too, which was sort of the whole point. Also my boobs hurt by 8:15 so I really didn't sleep that much longer.

Awesome part: DH saying "you're right, the morning shift is SO hard, I just wanted to come back to bed!"

And also, how does he think the MOTN shift is if the morning one was that hard?? Lol

[carolyngrace]

Jul 26, 2015 4:01:10 GMT -5 stcyct said:

I have the sound machine on an hour long timer which works for the first stretch of sleep but he immediately woke up when it went off after his last feeding and I had to do another quick one then. That was a couple hours ago and we are up again. This is the time of morning where he now will only sleep an hour if at all. I hope he can do a bit longer soon.

Why the timer? Mine runs all night long.

[mcp6286]

Jul 26, 2015 4:52:12 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

I thought she was never going to stay asleep. This naughty baby woke up when I put her in the bassinet but it snoozing away next to me in bed now. I don't know how I'm going to get her to sleep anywhere else now. I am holding on tight to "you can't spoil a newborn" because I keep feeling like I've messed up my baby.

Have you tried the Rock n Play? I was having the same problem and felt the same way until I got it! No (nighttime) sleep issues since!

[clbehenna]

Jul 26, 2015 4:52:12 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

I thought she was never going to stay asleep. This naughty baby woke up when I put her in the bassinet but it snoozing away next to me in bed now. I don't know how I'm going to get her to sleep anywhere else now. I am holding on tight to "you can't spoil a newborn" because I keep feeling like I've messed up my baby.

Try not to worry! My first had horrible reflux, and wouldn't even sleep in the Rock n Play most nights, so we ended up bed sharing until we transitioned him to his crib around 4.5 months.

You are not ruining your baby! We are still in the "do whatever it takes to survive" stage.

[missjenniebean]

Jul 26, 2015 11:20:02 GMT -5 clbehenna said:

Jul 26, 2015 4:52:12 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

I thought she was never going to stay asleep. This naughty baby woke up when I put her in the bassinet but it snoozing away next to me in bed now. I don't know how I'm going to get her to sleep anywhere else now. I am holding on tight to "you can't spoil a newborn" because I keep feeling like I've messed up my baby.

Try not to worry! My first had horrible reflux, and wouldn't even sleep in the Rock n Play most nights, so we ended up bed sharing until we transitioned him to his crib around 4.5 months.

You are not ruining your baby! We are still in the "do whatever it takes to survive" stage.

Agreeing with this statement.

[bookninja]

Jul 26, 2015 4:52:12 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

I thought she was never going to stay asleep. This naughty baby woke up when I put her in the bassinet but it snoozing away next to me in bed now. I don't know how I'm going to get her to sleep anywhere else now. I am holding on tight to "you can't spoil a newborn" because I keep feeling like I've messed up my baby.

+1 to the rock n play. Best $45 I've ever spent. J will also sleep in the car seat, weirdly enough... It must be that she likes being all curled up in a ball.

[holliberry28]

Which sound machine do you guys use?

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We use our sound machine all night long. Ours is the graco sound machine. When LO naps upstairs we have the oven fan on the entire time and it keeps her asleep longer.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Instead of a sound machine we use an app called relax melodies, it has like 30 different white noise type options and we just play it from our phones through SOs blue tooth speaker.

[dogmama22]

Jul 26, 2015 7:03:00 GMT -5 mrsmonogrammed said:

Yesterday night it was pee on my side of the bed, last night it was spit up allllll down the front of my shirt. You better believe that I stuck a burp cloth under my tank top and rolled over and went back to sleep. Motherhood is gross.

Ha! I did something similar the other day! He threw up all over my side of the bed so I just threw down a towel and went back to sleep. I'm used to being covered in vomit these days...

[gigi3126]

Jul 26, 2015 12:41:37 GMT -5 bookninja said:

Jul 26, 2015 4:52:12 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

I thought she was never going to stay asleep. This naughty baby woke up when I put her in the bassinet but it snoozing away next to me in bed now. I don't know how I'm going to get her to sleep anywhere else now. I am holding on tight to "you can't spoil a newborn" because I keep feeling like I've messed up my baby.

+1 to the rock n play. Best $45 I've ever spent. J will also sleep in the car seat, weirdly enough... It must be that she likes being all curled up in a ball.

DH uses the car seat to put LO to sleep when he's fighting it. We originally thought he liked the rocking or being swung around in it, but then we moved the "snuzzler" that we put in it to another chair, and he knocked out in that too. Seriously the best $15 I've spent. I'm ordering a second one so that I don't have to move it around so much.

[erbear]

We have a Dohm sound machine for ourselves but we play a white noise app on my old iPhone for her. I think I paid $2.99 for all of the sounds. I play it in the car, too, if she's getting fussy.

[musicfrk2002]

J just choked on...idk, his own saliva? It's been 2.5 hours since he ate last, but he seems to have reflux, so maybe that has something to do with it. Looks like I won't be sleeping much tonight.

[belle0720]

Jul 26, 2015 17:16:28 GMT -5 dogmama22 said:

Jul 26, 2015 7:03:00 GMT -5 mrsmonogrammed said:

Yesterday night it was pee on my side of the bed, last night it was spit up allllll down the front of my shirt. You better believe that I stuck a burp cloth under my tank top and rolled over and went back to sleep. Motherhood is gross.

Ha! I did something similar the other day! He threw up all over my side of the bed so I just threw down a towel and went back to sleep. I'm used to being covered in vomit these days...

+1 I'm pretty sure I constantly smell like vomit, and I don't even care! Lol

[carolyngrace]

Yay for a 5-hour stretch in the crib!!!

Want to murder my cat for scratching the bed and trying to wake me up before baby was up. Now he's hiding somewhere. Grrr!

[wegrowsheep]

Jul 26, 2015 14:38:49 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

Which sound machine do you guys use?

White Noise Lite app for android is free. If you get the full version, you can run it with other apps, but I have it on my kindle too, so I just set it near him and still have my phone to use. We also have a few white noises on my ipod.

[mrsmonogrammed]

4 hour stretch and I'm hoping for another one this time. LO has been having a hard time staying asleep for afternoon naps so I think that's my cue to start working on crib naps.....tomorrow;)

[erbear]

We slept from 10-2:30 tonight, which I'll take! My H rearranged things and made it so I could watch Netflix in the baby's room and it won't connect, though, so I'm annoyed. I have 20 more episodes of Friends to finish!