Who wants to join the club??

OK - I am sure that my belly buddies are sick and tired of hearing me bang on about how E is not sleeping through, and how many hours I was up overnight, so I htought I would start a thread for anyone who wants to come in on a daily/weekly/whenever basis where we can vent about the bad noghts that we are having,
So....................

COME JOIN THE CLUB.

I will start. Had a shocker last night. E woke at 1am, after going down at 8. I managed to sort of resettle her, but she lay in her bed, squealing at the top of her lungs for over an hour. (we were sharing a room as i was at mums.) She finally went back to sleep at about 2am, but woke again at 3am. I gave her a feed, and put her back down. Then she started the sqealing again for 2 HOURS. I finally went to sleep at 5am, and my dad got up at 7am and turned the radio on REALLY LOUD in the lounge and woke me up! At least she wasn't crying, but who can sleep through that racket?!

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Well normally Ash is up 2 hourly to feed so I know what it's like, though he does have booby and go back to sleep so I am lucky in that regard.

But last night he did sleep from 6.30pm -8am... apparently he isn't doing that tonight though cos he is still up and refuses to go to bed...

Oh that sqealing drives me nuts, thats what keeps me awake alot nights, when we used the dummy I could just shove that in, now its gone I have to sit thru it.

OOh! Can i join! Jesse is alot older, & has had his fair share of wake ups. Rarely he'll be nice & sleep through, when he's feeling very generous!
Lately when he wakes up, I'll get up to take him into our bed, & the second we leave his bedroom he's screaming at me coz I'm going the wrong way! I should be ready to get up at 11.30pm! (15 minutes after going to bed :rolleyes:)
Last night I got between 2 & 3 hours & it wasn't Jesse! It was poor Bri, sick again & up & down with headaches & a sore throat - every half hour from about 2am. (Silly me had visitors & was up til 3am! :doh:) & she won't have any medicine after being severly traumatised in hospital a month ago. Am about to make her a panadol/strawberry milk shake...
Then I was up for the day at 7 with a bung hip (must've slept funny on it) & half a hang over!
Could've been worse I guess....I could've had the full blown migrain hang over!

I'll join. Both of my kids are up most nights. DS at least twice on a good night and DD usually once, but sometimes more. THough in the last 2-3wks she has been sleeping through some nights in her big girl bed! DS still co sleeps cause he has never slept well. Neither has DD for that matter! Last night I got 4hrs straight, which is good for us. And DD slept throught as well, yay!!! DS had 3 feeds over night last night, not unusual. I can't wait for the night I get more than 5hrs straight, which is the longest stretch I gotten since DD was born.

me I want to join too.
Heaven only knows how many times Nate wakes up in the night. I took the clock out so I can't see.
I have had a grand total of 1.5hrs sleep since yesterday at 5.30am....Nate was up SCREAMING every 20min-half hour, then theres Darcy with her really bad tonsils (poor kid).
DH is on night work and now has gone to Sydney for 4 days - yay me....

Alex still isn't sleeping thru the night - he forgot to read the baby manual LOL.
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Can i join ??

H didnt sleep all day saturday....(well...40mins all up i reckon)....sat night was up every hour from 3am....grrr
Yesterday i was tired, he was tired. I didnt have the patience or energy to TRY and pat him off to sleep, so every little mumur or cry i would flip it. He did better yesterday, but wouldnt go to sleep at 7pm when he normally does. 8:10pm he was so beside himself and soooo tired. DH was on night shfit, so all up to me....;) He finaly went off to sleep at 830pm....'great i thought, will sleep thru till 1am at least'.....nope, 11pm woke up, then every hour from then...

Im sooo tired today......

ETA: i put DD#2 to bed with no night nappy last night (forgot......:doh:), so she woke me up in between HArrys night feeds with a wet back, wet bed and wet pants.....had to make up the bed at 12 am........it was all in all a awful night...

awww mbear :hug: handing you a strong coffee

erk mbear...:hug:

Hello all,

Missymoo - Wow 2 hourly! That must be a killer.

bjrose- I am the same. Sometimes up with the toddler. Last week he was having nightmares that bees were trying to sting his toes.

mbear - I have forgotten the night nappy before too. I now double sheet the bed a waterproof, then fitted sheet, another waterproof and fitted sheet. That way I only strip one layer off and he can get straight back in.

We had an ok night last night. i went to bed at 9pm, so managed to get 6 hours straight. I feel much better for it. I had to tape the final of masterchef though, as I knew I wouldn't make it through till the end.

lilias - I too am hanging for the day of getting mre that hours in a row. I was spoilt with DS. He slept through from 23 weeks.

kim - Hope Darcy gets better soon.

Wow, girls, some of you are makeing me appreciate my crappy night's sleep! :hug: to you all.

Things DO get better ladies! I remember walking up & down the hallway every night just about all night with DD1 until she was about 4mo when we realised that she was lactose intolerant & needed help...

Regardless tho to whether your LO needs special help or is just fussy there is a light on the other side of the rainbow, trust me....It is there!:dance:I've seen it, 3 times now..LOL

Last night I was up every 90 minutes... given that it takes 20ish minutes to feed her or settle her back to sleep, I got bugger all sleep. Can you die from sleep deprivation? I'm sure my FB friends are sick of hearing about how little sleep I get too. I don't know what I am doing so wrong :(.

MM that's a top idea with the sheets....I'm so lazy (no sleep deprived) I usually throw her on a matress on the floor until the morning.

Missymoo I'm with ya on the 2hourly feeds. Thankfully he usually just goes back to sleep.

Princess, nope I don't think you can....weill I haven't in the last three years.

MM that's a top idea with the sheets....I'm so lazy (no sleep deprived) I usually throw her on a matress on the floor until the morning.

Missymoo I'm with ya on the 2hourly feeds. Thankfully he usually just goes back to sleep.

Princess, nope I don't think you can....weill I haven't in the last three years.

Kim - Yeah I find the sheet idea works well. Much easier than remaking the whole bed.

PrincessXanthe - I often wonder if you can die from sleep deprivation. I hope you get a better night tonight.

I am not going to write about what sort of night I had last night, as you will all be jealous and I don't wnat to jinx myself.

Me too! DS is all over the place. Sometimes every 1-2 hours, sometimes only 2-3 times a night. I just keep reminding myself that one day he'll be a teenager and we won't be able to get him out of bed. Yes, that is soooo comforting :doh:
Princess X - nope, it won't kill you, but you do sort of become like the walking dead. 'Guuaargh' (That's a traditional zombie greeting, btw)
And you're not doing anything wrong, she's just not sleeping well yet, that's all. I refuse to entertain the idea that I'm a crappy parent cause DS doesn't sleep through the night. :rofl:

Megimoppit, hope you have another good one.

mbear - yikes. hope last night wasn't so bad for you.

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Me too! DS is all over the place. Sometimes every 1-2 hours, sometimes only 2-3 times a night. I just keep reminding myself that one day he'll be a teenager and we won't be able to get him out of bed. Yes, that is soooo comforting :doh:
Princess X - nope, it won't kill you, but you do sort of become like the walking dead. 'Guuaargh' (That's a traditional zombie greeting, btw)
And you're not doing anything wrong, she's just not sleeping well yet, that's all. I refuse to entertain the idea that I'm a crappy parent cause DS doesn't sleep through the night. :rofl:

Megimoppit, hope you have another good one.

mbear - yikes. hope last night wasn't so bad for you.

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Agreed, we aren't bad parents! We are really good zombies......

Im joining!! DS is up many times a night. He goes down at 7pm and for a while he'd go until midnight, but for the last month he'll go to 10pm latest. From then he is in with me and feeds every hour or two, it's ok as I sleep in between and dont have to get up BUT DD2 has been sick nearly a month now (diff things) and I've been getting up to her too. So every time she wakes DS wakes as I disrupt him. Been awful and I am so tired I can't see straight.....

We're in! There has been tag team parent torture here recently - sick kids up each hour, feeding frenzies - the last 3 months have meant between 3-5 hrs of broken sleep max a night. Poor DH has turned up for meetings in the wrong spot/wrong day, very dodgy standards of cooking/cleaning here and we've all put on weight from comfort eating. Not good BUT we are all ok and still in reasonably good humour.
My 3yo still has her nights, luckily last night was a quick wake up call. DD2 had her first night sleeping through EVER last night. We have had very little sleep here since DD1 arrived - I have tried all sorts of methods and NOTHING worked. I felt like a failure and was very over people making suggestions - but not helping!
Hang in there girls - you are all doing a great job!!!!!

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We're in! There has been tag team parent torture here recently - sick kids up each hour, feeding frenzies - the last 3 months have meant between 3-5 hrs of broken sleep max a night. Poor DH has turned up for meetings in the wrong spot/wrong day, very dodgy standards of cooking/cleaning here and we've all put on weight from comfort eating. Not good BUT we are all ok and still in reasonably good humour.
My 3yo still has her nights, luckily last night was a quick wake up call. DD2 had her first night sleeping through EVER last night. We have had very little sleep here since DD1 arrived - I have tried all sorts of methods and NOTHING worked. I felt like a failure and was very over people making suggestions - but not helping!
Hang in there girls - you are all doing a great job!!!!!

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:grouphug: That sounds really hard! *yawn* I don't know how you do it!!! I'm with you on the advice... don't people realise that we have tried everything! (Within reason... I wont put port in my DD1's last bottle :lol:).

Last night was... 11, 2,3,4,6.30... farkle :).

Wow PX that is full on - hope you manage to get a nap today! I cope just like everyone else does - knowing it will pass eventually and optimistically hoping it will be 'tonight'!!! Plus I go to bed really early... no outings here in the evenings - it is just not worth it. Honestly though I have struggled with people being flippant about how it must be something to do with me - MIL is convinced it is what I feed the girls....very annoying!

Enjoy your day!

ME ME ME!
DD decided to wake up at 1 am and watch in the night garden again. I put her in my bed and she fiddled and fiddled till at least 4 am

Got hardly any sleep and then my alarm didnt wake me up to get to work. Dad was outside waiting for me and i had 2 mins to get dressed.

TIRED, YES! Exhaussted TOTALLY, Messy Hair! YOU BET

Gosh PrincessX - a tough night!

phoenixml - I hope you made it to work on time.

Mak - I am just like you. I have a tough night, and then comfort eat to feel better. Not good!

We had a fairly good night last night. Awake at 1am, but I ignored her and she went back to sleep (she was just chatting away in her cot) Then she woke at 4am so I gave her a feed and she stayed down till 8:30am. DS was up at abou 4:30 as he had another nightmare, so I was up with him as well.

DH is on night shift tonight, so I am hoping for a good one.