These MOTN sweats are killing me! I don't know why I shower at night, I'm disgusting.
Nursing sweats caused me to abandon showering at night. It want worth it. I'm isualky up for the day really early for a feed and shower then before DH is up or needing to head to work.
Post by shannonabigail on Sept 30, 2015 3:00:03 GMT -5
Want your kid to sleep well? Send them to daycare! O has slept 6+ hours straight the past 2 nights. He is a pretty good sleeper and was doing 4+ before, but dang. Put him to bed at 8:30 and it is currently 4 and I'm up to pump. He has hardly made a peep!
Post by oopsiedaisies on Sept 30, 2015 3:57:34 GMT -5
So I've been thinking for weeks now that my kid hated being swaddled and was just dealing with little sleep. Turns out he just hates the swaddle pods because he couldn't move his legs in them. Pulled put a swaddle sleep sack and he is great and sleeps so much better...including his day naps!
oopsiedaisies mine sleeps in the ergo baby swaddles so her legs are free to kick around too. She loves it! I'm glad you figured out what works!
I keep complaining that my child doesn't nap...but she sleeps great at night. The difference is that she gets swaddled at night but no swaddle during the day. I may need to try swaddling for the day, but for some reason I'm resisting it. I don't really know why. Maybe part of me feels bad swaddling her for more than the 12 hours she is already swaddles for nights? Or I'm scared if she starts taking really good naps she won't sleep as well over night?
Walt gave me his first 4.5 hour stretch of sleep. ..except 2 hours of it was on H's chest while he finished a show and a hour and a half with me rocking him...he was only in his cosleeper for 30 minutes. He's now been up for the last 3 hours. The poor guy spit up a huge amount when I layed him down and H's bipap has woken him up twice when I've tried to lay him down. It's going to be a long day.
zonagirl Noah doesn't sleep well at night but I see your point to not swaddling during the day. It's a good way to distinguish night and day. And like you said, she may not sleep as well at night if she takes awesome naps during the day.
Call me crazy. I just woke up E to eat. I was worried about him sleeping so much! The transition to his crib is going TOO well for me. It will take some getting used to.
Heaven fucking forbid H get up with the baby. He's not hungry and refuses to eat but wants to be held. Oh, that's a job for mom. Fucking sleep away, asshole.
Heaven fucking forbid H get up with the baby. He's not hungry and refuses to eat but wants to be held. Oh, that's a job for mom. Fucking sleep away, asshole.
That's how it works here too. My SO works 10-12 hours every day though so I usually don't mind. Occasionally I wake him up to put her to sleep though... it seems so much easier for him, probably bc I'm her food source.
Heaven fucking forbid H get up with the baby. He's not hungry and refuses to eat but wants to be held. Oh, that's a job for mom. Fucking sleep away, asshole.
That's how it works here too. My SO works 10-12 hours every day though so I usually don't mind. Occasionally I wake him up to put her to sleep though... it seems so much easier for him, probably bc I'm her food source.
Blah. I usually don't mind at all (well, I resent him getting a full nights sleep but not angry per say) because he's working too but he has Wednesday's and Sunday's off so he could totally take one for the team..
layloo08 I would definitely have him taking night shifts when he's off the next day! I take Sunday-Thursday nights here, but it's 100% SO's job on Friday & Saturday nights. I nurse her and then he takes her if she doesn't go right back to sleep!
ETA +1 on a little resentment. I love spending all day with her (usually) but sometimes I wish I could go to work all day for once if it included a full night of sleep beforehand.
layloo08 I would definitely have him taking night shifts when he's off the next day! I take Sunday-Thursday nights here, but it's 100% SO's job on Friday & Saturday nights. I nurse her and then he takes her if she doesn't go right back to sleep!
ETA +1 on a little resentment. I love spending all day with her (usually) but sometimes I wish I could go to work all day for once if it included a full night of sleep beforehand.
I think that needs to become what we do. This is really the first time I've had significant trouble with him at night. He wakes often but Is usually up no more than 30 min after his feeding.. It's 5:40 and he's been up since 3.
I know what you mean. I go back to work Oct. 27 and really dread it because of lack of sleep. H and I will really have to have a tag team schedule then.
layloo08 I'm currently taking the night feeds, but if H has the next day off he takes either night or morning to let me sleep in.
That sounds fair. He doesn't know it yet but that's going to be what we do. I will be sleeping (or trying to..) and he'll be up after the next feeding.
Post by elizabethnevadap on Sept 30, 2015 6:43:05 GMT -5
We've been co-sleeping and it's glorious. Happy mom, dad and baby- we're all getting so much more sleep. Not to mention, an adorable, cuddly, smiley baby who wants nothing more than to be snuggled is kinda hard to say no to.
At first I had major guilt about putting M in the crib in his nursery but everyone is sleeping better! Whatever it takes.
I think we are in the same boat. It might mean DH can come back to sleep in our bed during the week!
Also, I have been nursing in bed but I would like to switch to the glider in the nursery.
We have a Sleep Number bed. My normal setting is 25 (VERY soft) but I've been sleeping with it on 70 b/c I don't want it that soft for LO. We don't co-sleep but I fear falling asleep with him while nursing.
I'm at a loss. A has been a relatively easy baby up until yesterday. Eats every few hours, sometimes cluster feeds, sleeps a few hours, etc. Statting last night she just started screaming randomly from 0 to 60 to the point she can't breathe and it could be immediately after nursing or sleeping. I try to rock her, check her diaper, everything and she only quits screaming when nursing or if she cries to the point of falling asleep. I tried going without formula today to see if it would help her gas but she is still super gassy. I learned from the LC that my production was up so as much supplementation wasnt needed, so I don't think it's cuz she is hungry. From birth she has only pooped every three or four days, so I don't think it's that. I just don't know what to do!!!
Post by girlonabike on Sept 30, 2015 22:49:03 GMT -5
There's a hurricane headed straight for us. There's still plenty of time for it to weaken/veer off course (its not predicted to make landfall until this weekend), but of course the media keeps hyping it up. This is not helping my anxiety.
There's a hurricane headed straight for us. There's still plenty of time for it to weaken/veer off course (its not predicted to make landfall until this weekend), but of course the media keeps hyping it up. This is not helping my anxiety.
yep we're right in its path too (assuming the weather people are correct...). I really hope we don't lose power.
Post by packmomma on Sept 30, 2015 22:55:05 GMT -5
W had worked himself into hysterics trying to latch onto my right breast (thinking it's oald because he was just gumming it and popping on and off again). After about 30 minutes of both of getting more desperate I took him into bed and tried side lying. And it worked. He was latched within a minute and had relaxed his whole body within another minute. These are the moments that make me think I may just have a handle on this whole mom thing. Hope everyone gets some sleep soon. I'll be back on in 2 hours.
DSHM13 Week 3 growth spurt or her first leap? My LC told me 3 is a big week on growth and then according to the wonder weeks app the first leap starts around then too.. N was the same and then last week he started the hard core screaming thing but there's no pattern to his like hers.. Hope it ends soon..
No hurricanes here but we are forecasted to get snow this weekend. Ugh. I know it's too early for it to stick but it's only another month until it's here to stay and I'm not ready yet!!
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Tried to bedshare. A woke up after 30 minutes losing her shit. Tried side lying feeding, she ended up spitting up all over me and the bed. I don't know why she wakes up after 30 minutes screaming her head off, but this is the third time it's happened. Anyone who bedshares have any tips?
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