OMG bad night, I'm so tired
DD was farting all night so I guess that was the problem but she still wanted to feed every 2-3hrs!! ENOUGH!!!! Then she would feed for ages and I'd have to put her to sleep so she was up for an hr each time so I was only getting 1hr sleeps here and there. She didn't sleep between 10.30 and 2.30!! Soooooooo tired now. I don't know what her problem is but I wish it would stop!! Wondering if it's something I ate. Onion? Garlic?? Hmmm....... maybe I'll just live on water.
Massive to everyone having bad sleep nights atm!! We are pretty lucky in that J generally goes down between 10pm and midnight and then wakes for a feed at 3-4am and then again at 6-8am. So I usually get about 5 hours of broken sleep a night. Last night I got 4 hours straight so am feeling pretty good and even got myself out of the house this morning! Now that I've said that he'll probably change it!! We do have trouble settling him in the evenings to go off to sleep most nights - he's pretty ferral at that hour and it's usually when I'm feeling my most sleep deprived!
How do you guys define a sleep cycle? J usually has a two hour sleep in the morning and then, if I'm really lucky he might do it again in the afternoon (so I can sleep too!) but mostly it's 30-60 min sleeps or not at all and we've got buckley's of getting him to sleep after about 7pm. He's so overtired he's beside himself and can't decide if he wants to feed, fart, burp or scream so tries them all intermittently and often tries to do two or more at once There's some good info on sleep in the Raising Children Network website. I'm going to try and read more of it today.
Ok - I have read everything but can't remember who said what
J is wearing mainly 000 clothes now but I don't think he'd still fit into the Bonds 000. I got sick of those little Bonds growsuits - I think it was the fluffy material I hated - so he doesn't wear them anymore
He's still in newborn nappies but we've had quite a few leakage problems with wee the past couple of weeks and sometimes I need to change his clothes and bedding 3 times. We're thinking of going up a size. He did that even with cloth nappies (which we're slowly starting to try out) but that's possibly because I didn't pre-wash them enough times.
Tarkine - are you guys in cloth?
Both my mother and MIL have had whooping cough injections and DP and I both had ours done as well when J was a couple of weeks old.
Nai - have you tried lightly slapping Js bum when she's in the sling? We can sit down with J here but need to tap his bum pretty regularly to keep him settled.
Holly - Hope L's 8 week check went well today.
Laura - How is the Motilium going darl? I am still expressing and topping up but not as often as before. Need to get J weighed again this week.
AFM - Had my Nan's funeral on Monday. It's really sad but I know it's what she had wanted the last few years of her life. Her quality of life was pretty poor and she was very religious so wanted to pass to be with God. She's told me for years not to cry when she goes - I think my tears are more for me, that I won't see her again, rather than her. She would have been 92 today.
My MIL is coming up today for a few days and then my sister is coming to stay this weekend so I'm not sure how much I'll be on BB but I'll be thinking of you all girls!
Kaz - a sleep cycle is the period when bubs goes from light sleep to deep sleep back to light sleep. For Isabel her sleep cycles only last about 40mins during the day, sometimes I can settle her back into a second cycle but often not! I heard a sleep and settling expert say that babies rarely need only one cycle so it is important to try and encourage them to sleep through into the second cycle.
I go in as soon as I hear Isabel stirring during the day and try and settle her through but she wakes so quickly, when I go in she has big wide eyes and huge smiles for me so getting her back to sleep is pretty useless! Ah well!
SJ, you poor thing! I completely sympathise - Isabel is going through a growth spurt too and we've had a few patchy nights. I had my MIL here yesterday which helped - can you call in the cavalry to give you some rest??
AJP - how was your night??
Laura, sounds like a great dinner, well done! How's the supply going?
Holly - how did your 8wk check go?
Ali, about clothes - Isabel is in some 000 and some 00. She doesn't fit Bonds 00 gro suits anymore and is mostly in 00 during the day. Pumpkin Patch size 3-6mths. She's a big bubba - a whole lot bigger than some of the bubs at Mother's Group who are much older! (Det - she weighs more than Heidi and Heidi is up to 16wks LOL)
She's also in cloth nappies so can't comment on the size of sposies...
Cloth users, what are you doing overnight? Isabel is good at the dream feeds without fussing about having a wet nappy but she's wet through a few times... thinking I should get a booster or something so I can leave her in them.
AFM - my MCHN friend says she thinks DD is going through a growth spurt, hence the feeding over night every 2.5hrs. I'm so tired but at least the end is in sight, if its a growth spurt it'll end soon. My BBs were so sore last night, she cluster fed from 7pm til about 11pm when she finally went down and she was pulling off and screaming in frustration, beating my BB with her little fist because there wasn't enough there for her.
It was quite funny - we had friends round and she had fed at 7pm, then DH brought her back after an hour of grizzling so I fed her again, then at 9pm she was crying so I got ready to feed her and one of the guys goes "She can't be hungry again can she??" with this incredulous look on his face.
So tempted to grab a bottle of EBM or formula and give her that... but didn't and she settled eventually. Then she woke at 2.30am, 6am and 9am. So a bit better than the night before. Hopefully she'll start settling into longer sleeps!
Oh, that reminded me. We're thinking of trying out cloth but I don't know where to start?? Help!! What nappies does everyone have? I want some that aren't too chunky. Some of them look so big and chunky that their clothes wouldn't fit over! I have no idea what size either, I don't want ones she's going to grow out of in a week. I was reading about all the nasty chemicals in disposables and now I don't want to use them anymore! lol.
Kaz - Yeah, you really have to wash the nappies well.
Heaven - I hope you can have arest today.
Nai - I am giving Miss E her vaccs, but she has a cold this week, so I am not getting them done till her cold has gone.
Laura - Do you wanna come cook at our house??
E was weighed yesterday. she is now 4.8 kgs. Everything else is going along pretty well for her.
I am getting her to do maybe one sleep in the day in her room, the rest is touch and go. For the past 2 nights she has slept 8pm to 3am, then straight back to her bed till 7:30am. So that's nice.
Anywone give me good advice on what to do to help clear her nose? I have one of the Fess little nose thingys but she is stil lreally congested. Maybe I shouldd borrow mum's Steamer thing for her room??!!
Oh and it is my 15 year school resunion at the end of May. I need to drop the 10kgs that I am still carrying so I won't be considered the fat chick!! So I joined back up to the gym today. Looking forward to getting back into shape.
ETA - OP we posted at the same time. Wow she is a big ub
Last edited by lilima; April 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 PM.
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to everyone having bad sleep nights atm!! We are pretty lucky in that J generally goes down between 10pm and midnight and then wakes for a feed at 3-4am and then again at 6-8am. So I usually get about 5 hours of broken sleep a night. Last night I got 4 hours straight so am feeling pretty good and even got myself out of the house this morning! Now that I've said that he'll probably change it!! We do have trouble settling him in the evenings to go off to sleep most nights - he's pretty ferral at that hour and it's usually when I'm feeling my most sleep deprived!
There's some good info on sleep in the Raising Children Network website. I'm going to try and read more of it today.
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