This is night 2 of swaddling with arms out. T is waking about the same so that's good. But why the hell am I still up from the 4am feeding?? Go to sleep body!!
This baby got up three times last night and then was up for the day at 5 am. It's now 8:15 and he has not slept today at. all. AT ALL! Not even for five damn minutes. I thought he was finally dozing off and laid him down in his crib but he's wide awake again. Right now DH is in his room rubbing his back and trying to get him to just give in but he's having none of it. I don't get it. How can a bay sleep so little all the time? Yesterday I was reading about 5 month developmental stuff and it started off with "at five months most babies are now sleeping through the night." Yeah fuck off before I stick a fork in your ear with that. I'm almost in tears at the thought of what's going to happen tonight.
Post by wegrowsheep on Nov 16, 2015 0:30:32 GMT -5
I let DH go to IL's to watch football. Dumb move. He and kids are just leaving to. come home, and I've been holding T pretty much since they left 6+ hrs ago. I haven't been able to set him down for more than a couple minutes without tears, and he's being so grabby at my face that I'm ready to dump him in his crib and walk away. I'm supposed to be packing for a 3 day trip (ag conference, and I'm a state committee member and voting delegate)...with all 3 kids. I still have to clean the stroller, and find bags and pack everyone. I managed to get 3 loads of laundry done, and run the dishwasher. I have no effing clue how I'm going to manage this week. My IL's watch my niece and nephew all the time when SIL and her DH go on date weekends or whatever, but there has been no offer to help out with any of mine. Not their job, but still frustrating.
*snarl* rant over Fx everyone has sleepy good babies tonight.
No I bought them at BRU (I think it's Milkmakers). It was totally an impulse buy a few weeks ago. They don't taste so good, but I figured it's better to eat them then anything else. I won a lactation cookie mix that I haven't tried yet, it's a different brand (The Bent Elbow- you can order online) that I heard is not so bad in terms of taste. I will let you know how they are when I make them. I heard they work!
Here's one if you want to make your own. www.howsweeteats.com/2015/02/lactation-cookies/?m I use this one, and try to eat 2 a day. It's not a huge difference, but I can tell when I don't have them. I do change the recipe a bit... 6 tablespoons Brewers yeast instead of 5, and butter instead of coconut oil...
I make the same ones. They taste a little different because of the brewers yeast, but aren't bad.
Post by periwinkledaydreams on Nov 20, 2015 14:53:29 GMT -5
fatmilkisdelish lt to commiserate. My non-sleeper has been waking up every hour? 45 minutes? 30 minutes? I don't even know anymore? By the time I lay back down and get comfortable, she's awake again fussing. Basically, I don't sleep. A good night we both go to bed at 7PM and manage an hour maybe 2 at a time or something like that. I don't know what's going on, I can't even formulte sentences! She's sleeping in the bed with me and SO is now on the futon so at least I don't have ti physically get out of bed to sooth her every wake up. I'm truly at a loss. Its got to get better soon!!!
I'm with you ladies. Were going on a two weeks or more (my days are all mixed up) of waking up every hour to every two hours. Wtf is going on? We had one magical week where he fussed at midnight, but didn't wake to nurse until 3 and 6, then that never happened again. I'm dragging ass at work and my emotions are all over the place. I feel like I'm always about to erupt at any time. How are you ladies getting through the day?
Post by silv3rlining on Nov 21, 2015 16:47:34 GMT -5
I thought we were in the clear. We had 2 miraculous weeks of only 1 wakeup...then someone asked me about her sleep. ..boom. minimum of 3 wakes up the past few nights. Please please please don't go back to every 2 hours or less. (Hopefully it's just teething but we're in leap 5 now I think and it lasts 4ish weeks...)
Post by carolyngrace on Nov 21, 2015 18:47:54 GMT -5
nchauhan, Ugh. Just had to remind myself today how exhausted I am, and that I'm not just emotional and mean on a regular basis. Sorry you're in the no-sleep boat. It REALLY takes a toll on you!
Post by periwinkledaydreams on Nov 21, 2015 19:35:16 GMT -5
Yall Im FEELIN IT! I feel completely gone, lost, out of control with this non-sleeping child. Other stuff in my life is piling up too and the lack (like almost complete lack) of sleep is killing me. I'm starting to feel like it can't be good for her either. It seems like most kids either nap well or night sleep well but mine does niether and I'm starting to worry she's just not getting enough hours, and maybe the over tiredness is feeding into the problem? I'm rambling. I'm like batshit out of it. Also on day 8 of a migraine which is not helping the sleep and the no sleep is not helping the head. Vicious cycle. Ugh sorry I'm so whiny!!!!!
Yes!! I'm crabby and whiny and I have to stop myself from being mean, too! I feel not like myself and it's really hard to function and try to impress people at work.
Yall Im FEELIN IT! I feel completely gone, lost, out of control with this non-sleeping child. Other stuff in my life is piling up too and the lack (like almost complete lack) of sleep is killing me. I'm starting to feel like it can't be good for her either. It seems like most kids either nap well or night sleep well but mine does niether and I'm starting to worry she's just not getting enough hours, and maybe the over tiredness is feeding into the problem? I'm rambling. I'm like batshit out of it. Also on day 8 of a migraine which is not helping the sleep and the no sleep is not helping the head. Vicious cycle. Ugh sorry I'm so whiny!!!!!
Will she sleep for your SO? We found with our first that LO would smell me and associate me with eating, which led to constantly wanting to nurse to sleep, but if DH is holding LO, that doesn't happen. DH pretty much owns the "get baby to sleep" routine around here. T will go to sleep in half the time and sleep twice as long on DH than he will on me...
wegrowsheep this is us, he just associates me with nursing to sleep, even if he nursed to sleep 40 mins ago & woke up. I keep telling H he needs to go put him back down but if the kids not asleep in 30 secs, I get summoned to 'fix' it. Ie feed him. I thought we'd just got our nights sorted & then all of a sudden we're back to no daytime naps, tired & cranky by 7, won't go down properly before midnight.
I'm on my own with LO all day and there's no napping respite so he's just teetering on the edge of a meltdown all day because he's so tired. Why won't he sleep when he needs it?! I'm worn down.
Don't give in! lol Really though, T is sleeping happily on DH at this very moment, while I supervise the older two going to sleep. I could have the crappiest day with him, and he konks out with DH as soon as he lays his head on his shoulder.
And he has been a bad napper. I got him to sleep earlier, and laid him down, and he slept very nicely for all of 5 minutes (long enough for me to pee, so yay for that).
I know I shouldn't complain about my mother because she babysat for us tonight, but because she fed J 8oz instead of 5 oz. I'm pretty sure that's why she woke up and was majorly gassy and it took 2 hours to settle her down enough to lay her down. So thanks for babysitting, but could you maybe stop overfeeding everytime you babysit?
I know I shouldn't complain about my mother because she babysat for us tonight, but because she fed J 8oz instead of 5 oz. I'm pretty sure that's why she woke up and was majorly gassy and it took 2 hours to settle her down enough to lay her down. So thanks for babysitting, but could you maybe stop overfeeding everytime you babysit?
Ugh, that's a problem here too. My mom thinks if he keeps drinking, that means he needs it. Um no. That's why I pre filled bottles and asked you to wait 30 min before giving him anymore. Otherwise we get a majorly fussy baby too
I know I shouldn't complain about my mother because she babysat for us tonight, but because she fed J 8oz instead of 5 oz. I'm pretty sure that's why she woke up and was majorly gassy and it took 2 hours to settle her down enough to lay her down. So thanks for babysitting, but could you maybe stop overfeeding everytime you babysit?
Ugh, that's a problem here too. My mom thinks if he keeps drinking, that means he needs it. Um no. That's why I pre filled bottles and asked you to wait 30 min before giving him anymore. Otherwise we get a majorly fussy baby too
Apparently she was crying for more and since she took the first two extra ounces that means she needed the third extra. Meanwhile never has she cried after getting 5 oz and even if she did then give her 1 extra, not 3!
I know I shouldn't complain about my mother because she babysat for us tonight, but because she fed J 8oz instead of 5 oz. I'm pretty sure that's why she woke up and was majorly gassy and it took 2 hours to settle her down enough to lay her down. So thanks for babysitting, but could you maybe stop overfeeding everytime you babysit?
My dad gave DB TEN oz last week. Started with 6, added 2, and then 2 more because he was still crying! And I've told him (and my mom) about paced feeding and trying to distract before giving more milk. Sometimes he just likes to suck. I mean, it hasn't "broken" him yet, but that just can't be good for him. My other babysitter does it too, and since like 4 months has insisted it's ok if he eats up to 8oz at a time. There's just no way he needs that!
wegrowsheep this is us, he just associates me with nursing to sleep, even if he nursed to sleep 40 mins ago & woke up. I keep telling H he needs to go put him back down but if the kids not asleep in 30 secs, I get summoned to 'fix' it. Ie feed him. I thought we'd just got our nights sorted & then all of a sudden we're back to no daytime naps, tired & cranky by 7, won't go down properly before midnight.
I'm on my own with LO all day and there's no napping respite so he's just teetering on the edge of a meltdown all day because he's so tired. Why won't he sleep when he needs it?! I'm worn down.
Yall Im FEELIN IT! I feel completely gone, lost, out of control with this non-sleeping child. Other stuff in my life is piling up too and the lack (like almost complete lack) of sleep is killing me. I'm starting to feel like it can't be good for her either. It seems like most kids either nap well or night sleep well but mine does niether and I'm starting to worry she's just not getting enough hours, and maybe the over tiredness is feeding into the problem? I'm rambling. I'm like batshit out of it. Also on day 8 of a migraine which is not helping the sleep and the no sleep is not helping the head. Vicious cycle. Ugh sorry I'm so whiny!!!!!
Will she sleep for your SO? We found with our first that LO would smell me and associate me with eating, which led to constantly wanting to nurse to sleep, but if DH is holding LO, that doesn't happen. DH pretty much owns the "get baby to sleep" routine around here. T will go to sleep in half the time and sleep twice as long on DH than he will on me...
She'll fall asleep quicker for him, for sure. That is when I've reached my limit and wake him up to take her because I can't take it anymore. Our problem right now is she's literally waking up every 45 minutes ALL NIGHT LONG, and it doesn't wake him up, yet it keeps me from ever falling asleep in the first place. Eventually I cave and wake him up to take a turn, and he gets her to knock out in an instant (which in turn leads him to an attitude of "what's so hard about this?) but 45 minutes later she's up again.. and again and again, and he sleeps right through it. Plus literally she takes maybe three 20 minute naps during the days when I'm home with her, if I'm lucky, so I'm burnt and out of patience. I really think I need to ask her doctor about how/why she could possibly be just not sleeping. She's just like me, poor thing, insomnia and all..
Post by periwinkledaydreams on Nov 22, 2015 11:19:41 GMT -5
I feel like I'm just on a tear in on my SO here but I need help gauging if its sleep deprivation anger or if I'm being legit. A few weeks ago he asked me what I thought about trading in the old playstation for the new version (pay 250 instead of 350) for his son, who is with us every other weekend. I said that's a lot of money for us right now (which it really is) but if its for his big christmas present or its like, the family christmas present (even though my ass aint usin it) then sure. Okay fast forward to last night he calls me on his way home from work, saying hey remember when we talked about the playstation trade in, well today is the last day to do it, what do you think? Should I do it? I said, "Its not my territory, I'm never gonna use the thing" He said "Well I know its alot of money for us right now thats why Im asking" I said "Yes. It is a lot. My view is the same as before, Im okay with it as long as its for Christmas, not just a random purchase."
Fastforward to immediately after we ate dinner last night, the playstation, along with multiple games, were purchased, set up, and being played. And guess who they're being played by... What??? Why did you ask me then??? No??? Am I just mad cause Im not sleeping???
Im "going to the store to buy laundry detergent." I have no idea how long that is going to take but I feel like its gonna take a long time.....
It took me almost 4 hours to get pie ingredients today. The grocery store was busy. Also I got lost and went to starbucks and homegoods first. Then I was hungry so I got some lunch. ::shrug::
I definitely did it wrong. I went to the bank and the store and was home in less than an hour. Dudes been "dropping his son off and stopping by his grandmas" for 4 hours, and it overlapped bedtime. I can't even begin to describe my feelings.
Post by seannemairi on Nov 22, 2015 23:11:59 GMT -5
We're on cold number 3 in just about a month and a half. The middle one was just a chesty cough but the first and third were/ are awful. She's had a fever off and on since late last night. This last temp was 102.8...it's already coming down after some tylenol but shit is scary. She's a trooper though. She's so clogged up so sleeping isn't something we're getting a whole lot of tonight. Hooray daycare!
We're on cold number 3 in just about a month and a half. The middle one was just a chesty cough but the first and third were/ are awful. She's had a fever off and on since late last night. This last temp was 102.8...it's already coming down after some tylenol but shit is scary. She's a trooper though. She's so clogged up so sleeping isn't something we're getting a whole lot of tonight. Hooray daycare!
Not sure what is going on with Tins. Last night she wouldn't fall asleep, and then she woke up at 11:45, 2:45, and 4:45. At 4:45 she whined in her sleep for about 45 min, and then I got her up and fed her since it was close to her normal wake up. She has been super fussy and clingy all day. ALL DAY. She fell asleep about 8:30 tonight, and currently has been up since about 11:45 fussy and whining. She just fell asleep. And husband is at work at night, so I'm alone on this. No position I hold her in helps.
Not sure what is going on with Tins. Last night she wouldn't fall asleep, and then she woke up at 11:45, 2:45, and 4:45. At 4:45 she whined in her sleep for about 45 min, and then I got her up and fed her since it was close to her normal wake up. She has been super fussy and clingy all day. ALL DAY. She fell asleep about 8:30 tonight, and currently has been up since about 11:45 fussy and whining. She just fell asleep. And husband is at work at night, so I'm alone on this. No position I hold her in helps.
It's like you just wrote down T's last 24 hrs. He's had about one hour of nap today, total, and now I have a cold too.
We've been up since 1 am. Well, she nursed for 45 minutes, fell asleep, and woke up almost immediately after I put her in the pnp. She was giggling at us and my H kept encouraging it. Don't wake her up even more!
The good news is H is off this week so I'll get to sleep in.
DD went down at 6:30. She has woken up at 10:15, 12, and now at 2:40. She had been doing so well for weeks! I am not a fan of whatever is going on.
This is our waking schedule exactly. I'm oddly ok with it but only because it's a huge improvement to the up every two hours we were doing with the 4 month wakeful.
Not sure what is going on with Tins. Last night she wouldn't fall asleep, and then she woke up at 11:45, 2:45, and 4:45. At 4:45 she whined in her sleep for about 45 min, and then I got her up and fed her since it was close to her normal wake up. She has been super fussy and clingy all day. ALL DAY. She fell asleep about 8:30 tonight, and currently has been up since about 11:45 fussy and whining. She just fell asleep. And husband is at work at night, so I'm alone on this. No position I hold her in helps.
She's already 6 months, no? There's also a 6 month sleep regression/growth spurt. The other culprit could be teething possibly?
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