 | | | Subject: Funny, the baby sleeps more, so I get more tired.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 by  Vip
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 | | Just a bit of a warning for those who don't want to hear a bit about breastfeeding stuff, no need to read on. 
 has always been good at night, and his new trick is now not just sleeping five-then-four hours (with a feed in the middle), but dropping it entirely and sleeping for eight. This is, in theory, good, but it means that my breasts wake me up in the middle of the night, usually having soaked their way through the breast pads and through my nightclothes. 
While he is still only sleeping through on the odd occasion I don't need to train my boobs to sleep through as well, so it's downstairs to the expressing machine (I want to have a bit of a stock so that I can leave him with Mr Vip for the odd evening). Half an hour later, with one boob now comfortable it's a bit easier to sleep. Back to bed. Then, an hour later, wakes up for a feed. Then he's awake for an hour. Then falls asleep. By this stage it's 7am and Mr Vip is up and getting ready for work, and even if I got back to sleep is on his daytime schedule of a feed every two hours.
So despite the fact that is sleeping more, I'm sleeping less.  I'm not complaining too much - between 11pm and 5am today I got unbroken sleep, which I know some mothers dream about! Still. I'm sat here typing through a haze of sleep and actually wishing for the days when he woke at 3 and then slept again for four hours... 
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| | | Subject: Funny, the baby sleeps more, so I get more tired.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 by Vip
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 | | Oh, it's just a matter of time before things settle down. He had a cold recently so started waking twice through the night, which threw things out a little. Once he settles back in to a routine he is comfortable with my body will adjust to fit.  it's just hard work at the moment!
I think because he is a good baby, it gives me a chance to try things out and to be a good mum to him. I probably wouldn't khave nearly as much fun or patience of he was still feeding every two hours all the way through the night!
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| | | Subject: Funny, the baby sleeps more, so I get more tired.
Posted Apr 2, 2012 by Vip
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| | We actually tried a bottle only last night, and he spat it out and cried a lot. I'm going to try ordering a different brand one today and experiment again when it arrives - this time with 30ml (1oz) rather than the 150ml (5oz) we wasted yesterday! Had I realised he would turn down a meal I wouldn't have put it all in there - I worked hard to express that!
Mind you, he is refusing a dummy as well (and these are posh, designed-for-breastfeeding ones). He might just have to stick with me until he is weaning and learns to drink from a cup.
Secretly I'm a bit pleased, although it does rather ruin any plans I had for any occasional evenings out in the next six months. My viola will just have to wait!
I've found that maernity towels (with plastic backing) are brilliant. But a towel is also good.
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| | | Subject: Funny, the baby sleeps more, so I get more tired.
Posted Apr 22, 2012 by Milla, listing wishes and bugs. Report them at A87753135 please
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| | None of mine took the bottle. None of them took formula. The big one, I started foods after six months I think, and she still just wanted mamma, but the younger one was delighted at oatmeal at three months, and dropped me completely by five months...
And they are both alive today, so I suppose I didn't hurt them too badly.
Any which way works. Sippy cups work earlier than you might think, and baby porridges are good stuff.
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| | | Subject: Funny, the baby sleeps more, so I get more tired.
Posted Oct 8, 2012 by Vip
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| | Hum, dilemma. If I go in and ask Mr Vip to turn over to stop him snoring (which is keeping me awake through the wall), I'll wake up , who is currently breaking his current record for not waking for a feed. But if I don't go in, I'm going to be sat here, listening to someone snoring for an indeterminate amount of time.
I'm going to compromise: I'm awake now so I may as well go downstairs. It's only going to be a short while until wakes up anyway... unless today is going to be the first day he's slept through since we moved bedtime to 7am! But I tell you what, being up at 4:30 is a vast improvement to the sleep I've had over the last three nights, so I'm not complaining!
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