intervals since midnight: 2.5 hours, 1 hr 50 min, 1 hr 10 min. So. Very. Tired.
Why is this happening???
After my similar shitty nights two days in a row, I was so tired and depressed feeling last night. Luckily last night was a tiny bit better so I feel more human. Ugh, it sucks!!
She went six hours between feeding - although she didn't go to sleep until after 10, so we got four hours of glorious sleep! I pumped more than I ever have before!
Post by musicfrk2002 on Aug 1, 2015 3:05:21 GMT -5
Boards seem quiet tonight...hopefully that means all babies are sleeping well!
H gets to do MOTN and early morning feedings on the weekends since I do they during the week. So what do I do? Stay up until after 3 catching up on things. Sigh.
Just checked on J...he seems to have found his fingers and is very loudly sucking on them.
So I'm at my lake house for the weekend and of course forgot my cord pump. No problem though the past few nights J has mused on both sides right before bed and when she wakes up 6 hours later... Oh except tonight. So I just woke up a baby who was only sleeping for three hours. I hurt so bad.
Post by holliberry28 on Aug 1, 2015 4:29:22 GMT -5
budders, hoping you can go back to sleep with V for another good stretch. M also makes his cricket noises after the first MOTN feed. I have a bottle all ready but he psyched me out and is still sleeping.
DH offered to stay up for the first feed while I slept from 12-4, but doesn't go to sleep when M is sleeping and stays up watching tv. Which is great but not if he never gets rest when he's with M at night. We're still in the living room; M in the RnP and me on the couch. I want to get back in the bedroom for when I go back to work in September, but for now i feel like why wake DH up during the work week when M wakes for his night feeds? Anyone else or am I being ridiculous?
Post by musicfrk2002 on Aug 1, 2015 5:15:33 GMT -5
I had to wake up anyways when J woke up screaming. H is apparently incapable of dragging his butt out of bed and doing anything...but if he was at GenCon this year, he would already be awake and raring to go. Sigh...men.
I'm on vacation staying in a cabin style condo w the family and Ali slept amazing. My little devil toddler woke up at midnight and would not go back to sleep until 2. I think he is just freaked out not being in his own bed or something. He finally went down at 2 and now Ali woke up for her feed. Put her back down at 3. I've officially been up for 3 hours in MOTN on vacation!!
A ate at 9:30p, fell asleep at 10p, woke up at 12a but went back to sleep before I could feed her and slept until almost 6a! I fed her and she fell asleep by 6:30a and slept another 3.5hrs....so last night, she slept 2hrs, 6hrs, then 3.5! YESSSSSSS, baby girl!
budders, hoping you can go back to sleep with V for another good stretch. M also makes his cricket noises after the first MOTN feed. I have a bottle all ready but he psyched me out and is still sleeping.
DH offered to stay up for the first feed while I slept from 12-4, but doesn't go to sleep when M is sleeping and stays up watching tv. Which is great but not if he never gets rest when he's with M at night. We're still in the living room; M in the RnP and me on the couch. I want to get back in the bedroom for when I go back to work in September, but for now i feel like why wake DH up during the work week when M wakes for his night feeds? Anyone else or am I being ridiculous?
I moved back into the bedroom after the first week, with V next to me in the RnP. When V starts to cry, I take him to his room to change, and then to the LR to feed, and we return to the BR once he's reswaddled and back to sleep. We don't disturb H.
I slept in the living room for about 2.5 weeks, and now we do exactly what budders does.
budders, hoping you can go back to sleep with V for another good stretch. M also makes his cricket noises after the first MOTN feed. I have a bottle all ready but he psyched me out and is still sleeping.
DH offered to stay up for the first feed while I slept from 12-4, but doesn't go to sleep when M is sleeping and stays up watching tv. Which is great but not if he never gets rest when he's with M at night. We're still in the living room; M in the RnP and me on the couch. I want to get back in the bedroom for when I go back to work in September, but for now i feel like why wake DH up during the work week when M wakes for his night feeds? Anyone else or am I being ridiculous?
I moved back into the bedroom after the first week, with V next to me in the RnP. When V starts to cry, I take him to his room to change, and then to the LR to feed, and we return to the BR once he's reswaddled and back to sleep. We don't disturb H.
I think tonight is the night we migrate back to the bedroom lol. Wish me luck!
budders, hoping you can go back to sleep with V for another good stretch. M also makes his cricket noises after the first MOTN feed. I have a bottle all ready but he psyched me out and is still sleeping.
DH offered to stay up for the first feed while I slept from 12-4, but doesn't go to sleep when M is sleeping and stays up watching tv. Which is great but not if he never gets rest when he's with M at night. We're still in the living room; M in the RnP and me on the couch. I want to get back in the bedroom for when I go back to work in September, but for now i feel like why wake DH up during the work week when M wakes for his night feeds? Anyone else or am I being ridiculous?
We've been in the bedroom the whole time with LO in the pack 'n play bassinet. I love our couch, but spent way too much time on it pg! I was so happy to be back sleeping in bed. DH does shift work and is in the habit of wearing ear plugs whether he is sleeping daytime or night, so he usually sleeps thru all the wake ups. I think he'd sleep thru a lot even without them... I hope LO has inherited that ability! Me, on the other hand, not a great sleeper. Anyway my original point was ear plugs could be an option if your SO is willing and can tolerate them.
Second night in a row lo has gone over five hours between a feeding. She woke up as I was just starting to pump, so I disconnected and knocked over a bottle and lost about half of it. Tears flowed!
My BFF and her husband are staying over tonight for the first time since Owen was born. She just came to sit with me during a MOTN feeding to bring me a cookie and quietly chat. I suggest this to everyone!! It was an amazing cookie and the conversation made me feel less alone in the world of MOTN feeding zombie - mode.
Second night in a row lo has gone over five hours between a feeding. She woke up as I was just starting to pump, so I disconnected and knocked over a bottle and lost about half of it. Tears flowed!
I'm so sorry I knock over bottles all the time! I think the lack of sleep and trying to be quiet to not wake anyone makes me the clumsiest person ever. I totally feel for you!
Post by carolyngrace on Aug 2, 2015 12:02:32 GMT -5
DB slept ok last night, mostly 3 hour stretches, but is napping like crap today. I always kind of second guessed when people said their lo's would only sleep ON them, yet here I am rocking a happily sleeping baby after false starts in the crib and mamaroo. Also, he took a paci for the first time in weeks. Silly fussy baby!
Post by holliberry28 on Aug 2, 2015 17:41:00 GMT -5
Yay for all the 6+ hours last night. M fell asleep in his swing at 9 and woke up ar 2 and sleeps quietly. Fed him and attempted our bedroom transition in his RnP and he slept so loudly from 230-5. All DH said was "your experiment failed." I think I'm banished back to the couch for another 2 weeks.
Yay for all the 6+ hours last night. M fell asleep in his swing at 9 and woke up ar 2 and sleeps quietly. Fed him and attempted our bedroom transition in his RnP and he slept so loudly from 230-5. All DH said was "your experiment failed." I think I'm banished back to the couch for another 2 weeks.
I haven't been around much so I don't know how things have been going for you, but do we have the same baby? I've got a kid who is a swing sleeper too, and though he will sleep in the RNP, he is super noisy, and it's just not restful for anyone. I have a video of an interview saved on my phone with Dr. Karp (Happiest Baby on the Block author) where he advocates for swing sleeping. I watch it over and over every time I question whether I'm going to have a 6-year-old sleeping in a swing haha
We've been getting one long stretch (4ish hours) until a little past midnight, and then 2 hr chunks. Hoping for 5 tonight, but he just woke up and ate. Again.
Our stretch was officially 9:45-1:30, but she was so tired yesterday that she basically slept through her feeds at 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30 (she would nurse and sleep and when I moved her she'd be awake). Poor girl would NOT nap yesterday! She's already half asleep on her second helping, which I almost didn't give her since she fell asleep when I tried to burp her.
Post by ravinraven216 on Aug 3, 2015 1:10:48 GMT -5
I put LO to bed at 9:00 and he slept until almost 2:00, and this after napping off and on most of the evening. Color me surprised. Fingers crossed for another good sleep tonight.
Up after 5 hours...I'll take it! She's boycotting burping right now, so she's taking awhile to finish the bottle. Hoping for 4 hours when we get back to bed.
Post by holliberry28 on Aug 3, 2015 3:06:54 GMT -5
sidneyvicious, Hi! Hope you're doing good.. Do you have a link to that video? Problem is swing is in living room and I already feel doomed to sleep on the couch forever.
He only slept 3 hrs in the swing. Fell asleep at 9, up at 12:30 and again at 3:30. Ugh- so much for extending sleep. M is 6 weeks now.
Woo- she slept from 2:20-6! There was a moment at 2:45 when she was fussing (& it was right after I got back to sleep from pumping), but she went back to sleep with her soothie.
It just sucks that h has somewhere to be this morning so I don't get to nap now when we're done.
sidneyvicious, Hi! Hope you're doing good.. Do you have a link to that video? Problem is swing is in living room and I already feel doomed to sleep on the couch forever.
He only slept 3 hrs in the swing. Fell asleep at 9, up at 12:30 and again at 3:30. Ugh- so much for extending sleep. M is 6 weeks now.
The interview is down on this page -- I really like this whole site as well. Also, I moved the swing in my bedroom a while back. My biggest issue now is that the Fisher Price swings shut off after four hours -- whoever thought of that is obviously not a mom whose infant needs motion to sleep!!!
sidneyvicious good link, thanks! Feeling vindicated...
I don't know about the swaddle thing. Ive tried so many times and he screams when he's in it. I wouldve thought it was possible to have preferences for and against everything? Still, I'm getting a bigger blanket and trying again...
Yeah, I can't swaddle either. It breaks me to watch how hard he fights to get out -- it stresses both of us out and I'm afraid he's going to hurt himself in the process. No swaddles here, unless it's just his legs for warmth because he's in a onesie. It bothers me when the experts insist every baby can be swaddled -- mine clearly cannot.
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