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Haven't heard from any of my friends in a few days, asked them down to watch a movie, no reply, everyone is gone out n I'm home alone and A is asleep.. Feeling a tad lonely
I know this is going to sound a bit weak for how your feeling but I would recommend a book. With tv the clogs can still turn and you can still think about how you are feeling but with a book it's harder for your mind to wander! Ross O' Carroll Kelly has helped me out of some severe beer fear over the years lol0 -
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MurdyWurdy wrote: »Our little boy's sleeping is just getting worse and worse. We're now on 6 months of broken sleep and my husband and I are at the end of our tether. He's never been good at sleeping at night but we just feel like it's catching up on us now and starting to really affect us.
We're on night one of the no cry sleep solution because I just can't and won't let him cry it out. Some of the suggestions we do already i.e. we have a very good bedtime routine and getting him asleep at night is no problem. It's the 6-7 times a night we have to get up to get him back asleep that's the big problem.
Fingers crossed it makes a difference. I don't know how we can do another year or two of crappy sleep. A lot of the book made sense to me so hopefully we see some results.
He's so good in every other way, he's very placid and laid back and is an extremely happy baby, always smiling and laughing and great with big groups of people and getting passed around and played with. He's a great eater as well, I had no trouble at all getting him to take a bottle from being breast fed and getting him to eat solids was easy too. He loves his grub. So, I'm trying to appreciate how good he is in other ways and how wonderful he is but I'm finding it harder and harder to enjoy my time with him when I'm exhausted all the time. Don't get me wrong, I adore him but it's funny how a lack of sleep just colours everything.
Could there be a stimulant that is waking him up? Perhaps a light/the darkness, you or your oh moving in bed, the clothes he is wearing? I know my lo wouldn't sleep long in the light, even have to turn off the landing light so it's dark enough for her to stay asleep. How does he sleep during the day? In what way is it the same and different to how it is at night for him? Just it may be something to look at?
I told my mum I'd sit in with A and her dad tomorrow but I wish I didn't have to. A gets quite upset when she's in with him n I'm going to try and see if me being in there helps because I feel bad for both of them. But it makes me uncomfortable because he just wants to play happy families.0 -
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At least I know we're not alone!
He was up every 20 minutes from midnight to 4am so I just stayed awake until then. At 4am my husband took over and J was awake from 4am - 5.30am finally going back asleep until 8am which was his longest stretch.
There is nothing wrong with him, he is not hungry or too hot or cold. He is in his own room so we're not disturbing him and there's no light getting into his room. There is no reason for it at all and we've tried everything. Nothing we do helps.
He's been awake at 4/5am the last 3 mornings and staying awake for an hour at least. We just don't know what to do. I'm completely exhausted today and feeling pretty helpless 0 -
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Yeah, last night was the worst he's ever been so I'm sure it's a bad phase - just when we want to put the no cry sleep solution in place! On the upside, we normally put him in the bed with us at 4/5 am but we persevered this morning and for the first time since sleeping in his own room he woke up in his own bed. I also got him to nap in there instead of on me earlier so it gives me hope.
I'm fairly sure his reflux is gone. We stopped the losec about 6/7 weeks ago and he seems fine. I'm thinking maybe teething is playing a part? GP said his bottom two are coming in and because he is so happy in general he may not be showing the pain through the day. He had a temp and a cold last week and he made a show of me at the docs - laughing and smiling at everyone so nobody believed me he was sick! He did have his 6 month vaccinations last Thursday too. How's your little one's reflux? It's a horrible thing
I just keep saying this too shall pass and playing that Darius Rucker song (it won't be like this for long). They do like to try us though, don't they?
I hope all the sleepless babies improve soon 0 -
This is the song:
It's embarrassingly cheesy but in my exhausted hormonal state it always makes me cry!0 -
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Oh lord, I'm glad I read all your posts. We have a no sleeper here too... He's nearly 10 months though:( he went through a phase of sleeping through and only waking briefly for his dodie once or twice. For the past month or two he's been getting his first teeth and has had chest infection after chest infection. For the past week he had been in our bed by 1am every single night. I haven't had more than 5 hours sleep a night for a very long time I welcome any advice anyone can offer but like some of you, I've resigned myself to the fact that we just have a terrible sleeper on our hands
On/off topic, for those of you whose little ones had chest infections and coughs, did the doctor ever prescribe anything different than piñamox? Our little fella has been on an antibiotic (pinamox) for over a week now and while the wheezing and weight on his chest seems better, the cough is now choking him and he can't sleep at all with it. Going to the docs again tomorrow but just wondering if there's any hope of him getting any different medicine......
I'm a bit 'woe is me' tonight 0 -
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We should have a bad sleepers anonymous thread! Funny how babies are so different. We're prepping ourselves for another bad night we've decided to slowly introduce the no cry sleep techniques instead of going hard out because with Christmas and the fact we're going skiing for a week over New Year there'll be no routine to speak of so it will be counter productive. I'm not big into the idea of baby books etc but I'll try anything at this stage! So after our holiday we'll be following it strictly
Your poor baba Yellow Hen we haven't had to go on antibiotics here yet so I can't advise but I know sleep is even harder to come by when they're sick 0 -
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I thought once the reflux went he'd sleep, then when he moved to his own room, then when we started solids. None of it had any effect! I had to stop reading stuff online because it was driving me mad.
How many weeks is your little one now Drdoc? The reflux is awful, it did make for a rough start for us and tbh, I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't sleep well now. Habits formed then when he used to wake up in pain.
J was 6 months last week and I think we stopped the losec at about 20/21 weeks. We actually ran out and I didn't get a chance to get to the chemist to he didn't have any for two days, then we noticed he was fine and we stopped and since then it seems to have cleared completely. We started him on solids at 17 weeks (not because of the reflux but because he is a hungry beast). Some people start babies on solids early to help reflux but I''m really not sure if that's what helped him or if it was just the fact that it usually clears up between 16-20 weeks anyway.
So far tonight, he's been good. Last night my parents were babysitting until 11pm and he was up at 9pm wanting to hang out with him in the sitting room (which I think they secretly loved). Then he was up for a while at 11pm after we came in and the night just got worse from then. Tonight we were out at our church carol service until 8.30pm and we bathed and put him to bed when we got home. He was asleep straight away and not a peep out of him so far. Fingers crossed last night was the worst of it!
Roesy - the sleep training thing I've been reading says that babies actually sleep better at night if they have slept well during the day so hopefully you have a good night 0 -
MurdyWurdy wrote: »I thought once the reflux went he'd sleep, then when he moved to his own room, then when we started solids. None of it had any effect! I had to stop reading stuff online because it was driving me mad.
How many weeks is your little one now Drdoc? The reflux is awful, it did make for a rough start for us and tbh, I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't sleep well now. Habits formed then when he used to wake up in pain.
J was 6 months last week and I think we stopped the losec at about 20/21 weeks. We actually ran out and I didn't get a chance to get to the chemist to he didn't have any for two days, then we noticed he was fine and we stopped and since then it seems to have cleared completely. We started him on solids at 17 weeks (not because of the reflux but because he is a hungry beast). Some people start babies on solids early to help reflux but I''m really not sure if that's what helped him or if it was just the fact that it usually clears up between 16-20 weeks anyway.
So far tonight, he's been good. Last night my parents were babysitting until 11pm and he was up at 9pm wanting to hang out with him in the sitting room (which I think they secretly loved). Then he was up for a while at 11pm after we came in and the night just got worse from then. Tonight we were out at our church carol service until 8.30pm and we bathed and put him to bed when we got home. He was asleep straight away and not a peep out of him so far. Fingers crossed last night was the worst of it!
Roesy - the sleep training thing I've been reading says that babies actually sleep better at night if they have slept well during the day so hopefully you have a good night
Murdy, she was up for an hour and half from 10ish and is asleep since. I'm wide awake since about 2.40. I'm so annoyed, was wrecked going to bed and have to be up and out before 9am
Hope your night goes well.0 -
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Ugh A has been tough to deal with today. She's refusing to go asleep and the times she has slept its been in my arms so I'm knackered. Went out for my usual walk. I usually get three hours sleep out of her after that but she only slept 2/3 of the walk and woke at the end. Then as we got to my road she start falling asleep again so i went a roundabout way to the house. Got home and she woke the minute I opened the door. Tried rocking her for 15 minutes but she was just starting up at me. She probably won't go down tonight either even though she's exhausted. Baaahh
She has also discovered a noise she can make and it just happens to sound like she's choking on something and is gasping for air. It scares the fudge outta me every time she does it. Her breathing is fine, I've made sure a million times, she's happy and giggling, it's just she knows she'll get a reaction from me when she does it0 -
Ugh A has been tough to deal with today. She's refusing to go asleep and the times she has slept its been in my arms so I'm knackered. Went out for my usual walk. I usually get three hours sleep out of her after that but she only slept 2/3 of the walk and woke at the end. Then as we got to my road she start falling asleep again so i went a roundabout way to the house. Got home and she woke the minute I opened the door. Tried rocking her for 15 minutes but she was just starting up at me. She probably won't go down tonight either even though she's exhausted. Baaahh
She has also discovered a noise she can make and it just happens to sound like she's choking on something and is gasping for air. It scares the fudge outta me every time she does it. Her breathing is fine, I've made sure a million times, she's happy and giggling, it's just she knows she'll get a reaction from me when she does it
She's rubbing her eyes and grunting. . Her sign of tiredness yet the minute I pick her up she goes crazy to get out0 -
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