Dream feed at 10:00 bought me a few more hours. Its really weird how babies are able to eat half asleep. Back to waking at 4am instead of 2 and 4. She fell asleep on DH at 7 so figured I'd try it. Now if only we could stretch the next one 4-7am.
ETA rest..sent too soon
How do you effectively not wake her up during dream feed and does she eat well? I've tried, but when I don't unswaddle N he lazily eats and is up sooner. Also, this kid pees so much I have to change his diaper.. And changing his diaper wakes him up to eat off of the second side.
She wasn't swaddled yet, but I usually am able to get the swaddle back on her MOTN without waking her fully. We use the halo swaddle sacks. She doesn't poop at night usually and pee doesn't really bother her so this particular time I didn't change her. After her 6 hour sleep I do. She ate fine but doesn't always. Not an expert for sure but last night it worked!
No. She came off all monitors when she came home from the nicu. My baby is wireless lol
cupcakecutiern I meant baby monitor. Haha, I couldn't figure out where that question came from lol. Our baby monitor has a night vision setting and lots of cool features.
I wish we had an apnea monitor because she'd have been in her room a long time ago lol. Except then she would NEED the monitor...so never mind. I'm good without it. Lol
Pretty sure I jinxed myself. DD2 has been sttn (9pm-7am) for the last week and just today I was thinking how I kind of miss the MOTN feedings. How peaceful they are with the whole house dark and quiet and just me and DD2 up together. So of course I'm up with her for the third time in the last hour tonight.
Boo. Is it a leap or growth spurt time? I can't wait til I miss MOTN feeds haha.
I've had trouble catching up with all the threads because W is finally giving me more sleep. But tonight we are dealing with engorgment and crappy latch. It's like with the last two weeks of problems he has just forgotten how to open his mouth. With this engorgment issue I kind of wished we wild go back to every 3 hours feeds. But hey at least with this long feed (going on an hour ) I've been able catch up on the feeds.
After consistently going to sleep at 10 and waking up between 5 and 7:30, she decided to fall asleep at 8:30 and sleep until 12:30. Should have anticipated it since tomorrow is my first official day back at work.
Post by oopsiedaisies on Oct 21, 2015 2:52:03 GMT -5
This kiddo nursed and fell asleep 2 hours earlier than normal so now we're up 2 hours earlier to feed than normal. I shouldn't complain since it's a 5-6 hour stretch.
I almost wish out was MOTN instead of starting my day at 4. Maybe I can get a nap in prior to work!
I'm in the 4 am club too. Probably will be my new wake up time once I go back to work it takes me forever to fall back asleep now. WTF are we all going to do with the time change next week?!? I'm dreading it is going to ruin all my sleeping.
We just got our first 6 hour stretch! Lately I have been getting headaches the instant I look at my phone in the MOTN so I have had a hard time keeping up with the board.
She starts in the PNP and usually ends up in bed with me to extend her sleep. She is gassy tonight and I think being close to me helps her. If I swaddle to help with the closeness she gets angry that her legs don't have unlimited movement. She starts daycare next week, so I will wait a few weeks to try moving her to the crib.
Post by motownthrowdown on Oct 21, 2015 3:40:10 GMT -5
So our motn routine is that I pump while DH feeds her. She was laying on his chest after finishing her bottle and he looks at me with this creeped out look on his face and says, "she's LICKING my neck. And my chest hair. She's LICKING it."
So our motn routine is that I pump while DH feeds her. She was laying on his chest after finishing her bottle and he looks at me with this creeped out look on his face and says, "she's LICKING my neck. And my chest hair. She's LICKING it."
This is wonderful and made me laugh so hard W popped off the boob.
E has been asleep since 9. I tried to go to bed at 11 and it didn't work out. I miss my sleeping pills! So now I'm going to make my SO's lunch & then get her out of the swing. I sleep better with her next to me anyway since I don't wake up in a panic to check on her.
The engorgment is so bad. Just my luck that W starts sleeping 5 hours between feeds at the same time I created an oversupply from steel cut oats. Luckily he's figuring it out although he's not getting enough hind milk this week so his weight will be off at his appt Friday. I am enjoying the additional sleep though.
Post by oopsiedaisies on Oct 22, 2015 3:43:02 GMT -5
I have to be up in 2 hrs to get ready for my interview...when I scheduled it, I was only thinking about how baby would be asleep during that time, not how we'd have to get 5 ppl out the door so early. Gah! And 1 is a toddler and the other an 8 yr old. This should be fun.
I have to be up in 2 hrs to get ready for my interview...when I scheduled it, I was only thinking about how baby would be asleep during that time, not how we'd have to get 5 ppl out the door so early. Gah! And 1 is a toddler and the other an 8 yr old. This should be fun.
I thought my 7:30am interview with one baby was bad..
N woke up to eat a little after 4....he nursed on one side, promptly projectile spit up all over me and himself, and fell back asleep. Now that I've cleaned up the bed and myself and his blanket, pumped, and got some more water, I'm wide awake
2month shots are not treating is well. I went downstairs to sleep on the couch with DS2 so hubs could get some sleep. He just spit up all over. No idea how I'm getting that out of the fabric. Ugh.
Just got M fed and back to sleep. I have slept in the last couple days and now my schedule is pretty much screwed. I haven't been setting an alarm since M usually gets up around 8. Now he has been sleeping quite a bit more than normal and I woke up and it's 11 or 12. I hate myself for this. I have to get straightened out before I go back to work.
Stayed up late to watch a movie and although it was very nice H and I didn't get to cuddle because W wanted to eat. And our schedule got thrown off. I'm gong to get maybe 4 hours total before our 2 month appt.
Last night should have gone well, as it had been most of the week.
We got dinner going late, so the twins were up later than usual. Aidan was nearly asleep after his feed, but during Evie's feed, she projectiled everything onto me, my bed, sheets, pillows, clothes... It was ridiculous, and disgusting. Aidan ended up getting woken right up in the commotion, so both of them had a really crap night.
Tomorrow I'm in a wedding all day and Eric is going to have Elaine. Thinking about being away from her for that long honestly hurts my stomach. I feel bad complaining because I know that so many of you already have your LO's in daycare with the States' shitty mat leave but I haven't been away from her for longer than an hour before.
I'm not worried about him with her because he's awesome with her. But all the things that could go wrong are going wrong in my head, what if he doesn't have enough breast milk (we have formula on stand by), what if she refuses to take a bottle (we've been giving her them off and on and never had a problem), what if she doesn't nap and just yells at him the whole day (She'll sleep in the car on the way there because she always does), what if she thinks I've abandoned her? She's my little buddy. We do everything together, she won't understand where I've gone and why I'm not with her.
I know logically that I'm being silly and she will be with her father and perfectly fine and she's only 3 months.. she probably doesn't have that much thought process going on but my emotions are telling me another thing. I know she needs this father/daughter time and it's probably good for me to be gone and get some time with my friends and family and it's only 8:30-5 which is like a normal work day but it's hard. I'm literally crying and I don't usually cry. I just need to get through the day and not think about it tomorrow!
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