~The Ongoing MOTN Check In ~

kiley820

Well it's been a while but I'm back. ...wide awake after an hour long ordeal of cleaning up projectile poop everywhere. This was a first for us and of course DS thought the middle of the night was a great time for it I guess I shouldn't complain as he has been great waking up only once and going back down fairly easily but...that was quite an ordeal! Had to wake up SO, it was all over me, him, changing pad, wipe container, dresser etc. By the time we cleaned up everyone/everything, threw some laundry in the wash and got him back to sleep..well, here I am. Is it appropriate to have a glass of wine at 2:41am?!

kamedio

Both kids are wide awake and have been since 4:45. My 2.5 year old opted to stay up well after his normal bedtime and I'm pretty sure was up until after 10:30. I just want to sleep for more than 3 hours

gahorseygal

MrsDuarte8185 said:

stoofewok said:

@slippintrippn84‌ that's awful! To offer another perspective, though, DS breastfeeds and he has scary choking incidents pretty much every time because my letdown is so forceful.

Same here! I hate it.

Im in this club as well. And then she gets fussy because its too slow after that.

slippintrippn84

So I was giving LO a bottle this morning and he was still chugging then choking on the milk, but this time, as he was coughing it up, he let out 2 massive farts. Still scary, but at least it took care of the other problem.

BeachM

WTF child? Why did you go from giving me a 6 hour stretch back to waking every 3 hours?

MC03

flip_flops said:

WTF child? Why did you go from giving me a 6 hour stretch back to waking every 3 hours?

Yeah that is just cruel.

alphaxi614

flip_flops said:

WTF child? Why did you go from giving me a 6 hour stretch back to waking every 3 hours?

Oh my LO did that this week too!! Hence here I am! Such a tease..

BabyM82714

LO slept 9:30pm-3am. Thanks LO but she is still awake (slowly getting sleepy) and hour later. I keep repeating "its dark outside, not play time, go to sleep child". Like she cares. I even heard BF giggle from the other room. I might let her get away with it since she just gave me a giant smile. *heart melting*

slippintrippn84

This kid can sleep just fine if he's held, but the moment any part of his body touches the crib he turns into a big pile of nope. WTF. Let me sleep! Milk supply is already suffering. Please mommy wants to rest.

Dawn5481

LO woke up at 12:30. FI got up with her. I came out to find her propped up in her Boppy chair with the bottle semi propped up in her mouth while he was watching frickin Captain America. #1 She kept choking. #2 She had formula all over her because he wasn't paying attention. Total bullshit. I'm pissed and now I get to stay up all night with her because I don't trust him to feed her.

SherryBaby2014

DD has had a few 5-6 hour stretches lately. She cluster fed from about 8pm-12am so I thought we were gearing up for a good stretch of sleep. Nope.

Instead I get a hungry baby who poops forcefully as she starts eating. Making room for more...

BabyM82714

BF is on the couch tonight if that says anything about how our night here is. LO is being a peach though besides constistebly thinking 4:30 am is wake up time. I'm in denial that 4:30 will be my wake up time starting October, making she is trying to get be adapted (

alphaxi614

Why oh why do you pick the week I go back to work to wake up every 2.5 hours?? And why are you eating like crazy at each feeding? Please be a growth spurt, mom is very very tired. I miss my 4-6 hour stretches!

marathonmommy82

@slippintrippn84‌ ... you can try to heat up the crib with a heating pad before you put LO in it... we do that and it seems to work! (Obviously I remove the pad before putting her down)

slippintrippn84

OMG I don't remember writing that!! I'm getting delirious at night now. ugh. I ended up just putting him in the RnP in my room so I could stop getting out of bed. He slept much better after the move.

Dawn5481

@shinyredsmartazz‌ That was the first strike. Second strike came this morning when I woke up to find that he had left for work and she was swimming in her own spit up and shit because he fed and changed her before he left for work without realizing I had been up with her an hour before to feed (this made 8 oz of formula in an hour). The literal shit storm was because he accidentally pulled a leftover newborn diaper out instead of a size 1 when I specifically told him they are too small to contain her pooplosions.

SoSayWeAll

@slippintrippn84‌ Happens here too and we are breastfeeding. It is scary though!

SoSayWeAll

So I get up with DS and go to change him and the minute I open his diaper he starts peeing everywhere, before I can cover him! After he stopped I ran to get stuff to clean him up and he shat all over the towel and peed again! At least now I am fully awake.

Dawn5481

FI isn't talking to me. Was a complete asshole to me tonight and has now locked himself in the bedroom so he can't hear the baby and I'm left to take care of her alone on 3 hours of sleep. I don't know what LO's deal is tonight, but of course she's not sleeping (squirmy, gassy, fussy, uncomfortable). Up since 8:30. I'm so depressed I can barely function. Seriously starting to lose it.

gahorseygal

LO is currently going on 8 hours since her last feeding. I should be enjoying some much needed sleep but instead I wake up to my left boob leaking everywhere and super engorged. I pumped for a minute to relieve some pressure and now I have spent the last hour trying to figure out if I also have a plugged duct. If its a plugged duct I need to feed off this side but if it is just engorgement I shouldnt feed off this side. Im thinking plugged duct though.

BabyM82714

BF decided (after us having a talk about me needing more help, especially since I start work soon) that he would take LO 4-5 feeding. Awesome she last ate at 11:30 and that long stretch was going to be awesome. Well he preceded to stay up until 3. At 3:30 when she woke he said "I'm not gonna get any sleep, I don't wanna do it anymore".

Fine I was pissed and got the bottle ready. Before I started he came.in to take over. Thank you! He brought her back and laid her down. Immediately her eyes opened and I leaned over and she stunk. Yup shit herself. BF apparently didn't notice. And he is convinced she won't fall asleep with him so here I am. Still up. LO wide awake. He doesn't even work tomorrow/today!!!!

Dawn5481

What is it with SOs being douchecanoes tonight?!

tamarar5

JoShan1719 said:

Dawn5481 said:

What is it with SOs being douchecanoes tonight?!

For real. Last night mine went to the bar after work for an hour and a half even though he said he was going to stop going there. Then when he got home he went into his office and screwed around for another hour and a half. And he had the nerve to get snippy with me about my 45 minute shower.

Add me to that club, only mine was. Saturday/Sunday night. DH feel asleep at 5pm n Saturday and slept until after 10am on Sunday. Wtf! We have three kids, I can't do this by myself 24/7.

rainbowwillow

Broke down & bought a RnP today for 6 week old DS. Shhhhing and rocking him now. Seems to be working. Pleaaaassseeeee let him sleep for at least 2 hours......

slippintrippn84

DS had a great stretch of sleep last night so I was hoping for the same tonight. That is not happening for us tonight unfortunately. LO woke up only 3 hours after he initially went down. Doh. I really thought he would sleep till 3ish but I guess not. Now I still need to get up then and pump. So much for good sleep tonight.

SherryBaby2014

rainbowwillow said:

Broke down & bought a RnP today for 6 week old DS. Shhhhing and rocking him now. Seems to be working. Pleaaaassseeeee let him sleep for at least 2 hours......

Good luck to you! We got ours on Friday at 7 weeks. Finally a place I lay her down and when she's asleep doesn't wake minutes later.

rainbowwillow

LO slept for exactly 2 hours. Nursing now then hopefully back in E
RnP for another stretch.

kiley820

Leskay said:

My daughter moans and growls like a gremlin for 20- 40 minutes Everytime I put her down in her bassinet to sleep.
The noise freaks the shit out of me and makes check on her every few minutes.
1. To make sure she's ok
2. To make sure she hasn't actually turned into a little monster

My guy is a noisy sleeper too, so freaky! Then of course when he's not being super loud I'm jumping out of bed to check on him.

Our (his) "schedule" is so off today. I blame it on his refusal to nap from 12pm to 5:30 this afternoon. What the hell? So tonight he slept from 1am -2:30am. By the time I finished changing him, pumping after feeding and getting myself in bed he was up again. Usually the motn feeds aren't too bad as he goes right back to sleep. Not tonight. Up from 2:30 to 4:30 and now I'm exhausted yet wide awake, ugh.

belle785

I want my solid 5 hour stretch back instead of this 4 hour one. I'm tireddd.

rstarrlemaitre

WTF cat. LO is sleeping soundly and you're keeping me up knocking everything in the apartment over.

cachoque

DH played too much with LO during his time to feed MOTN and then handed LO back to me wide awake . After yelling at DH, I reminded him that his whole parenting mentality should evolve around, "How do I avoid being yelled at by wife?" Maybe this will work for us!

Dawn5481

I spent hours trying to get her to go back to sleep after her 12:30 feeding. Even avoided coming on here so the light wouldn't wake her up if she dozed. Finally passes out, I lay her down, and....fucking hiccups. I was back to where I started.

gahorseygal

@JoShan1719 I would try not letting them go more than 3 hours between feedings during the day. I read that babies will eat about the same number of times a day so if they don't get that feeding during the day they will make up for it at night. I make sure not to let LO go more than 3.5 hours between feedings so she ends up eating around 7 times a day. So I make sure to get those 7 feedings in and then she does one long stretch after her last feeding. Lately it's been 7-9 hours and that starts around 7 or 8pm. 

I know some people say let them sleep if they are gaining well but I don't think you should during the day if you want them to go longer at night.

gahorseygal

JoShan1719 said:

@JoShan1719 I would try not letting them go more than 3 hours between feedings during the day. I read that babies will eat about the same number of times a day so if they don't get that feeding during the day they will make up for it at night. I make sure not to let LO go more than 3.5 hours between feedings so she ends up eating around 7 times a day. So I make sure to get those 7 feedings in and then she does one long stretch after her last feeding. Lately it's been 7-9 hours and that starts around 7 or 8pm. 

I know some people say let them sleep if they are gaining well but I don't think you should during the day if you want them to go longer at night.

Yeah I'm thinking that's the problem. I'm going to start keeping better track tomorrow and waking him for feedings. His sister was not like this at all! Right around two weeks old she started downing 4oz bottles like they were nothing, took several short naps during the day and gave me long stretches at night. Babies are hard.

Truer words have never been spoken. But man do I love the little munchkin.

BabyM82714

gahorseygal said:

@JoShan1719 I would try not letting them go more than 3 hours between feedings during the day. I read that babies will eat about the same number of times a day so if they don't get that feeding during the day they will make up for it at night. I make sure not to let LO go more than 3.5 hours between feedings so she ends up eating around 7 times a day. So I make sure to get those 7 feedings in and then she does one long stretch after her last feeding. Lately it's been 7-9 hours and that starts around 7 or 8pm. 

I know some people say let them sleep if they are gaining well but I don't think you should during the day if you want them to go longer at night.

I do this exactly! Any time I've let her sleep during the day longer than 3.5 hrs she slept like crap that night!

slippintrippn84

uh, so we're nearing the end of our 6 week growth spurt, but LO has been a fn nightmare today and DH just declared that he is over listening to him cry. He seems to think that babies are quiet most of the time...and that a single method of soothing should take effect immediately. Give me a FN break, literally. I've been dealing with this all day and DH has been home for maybe 5 hours.

BeachM

I thought nighttime stretches were supposed to be getting longer, not shorter. 8:30-11:30 tonight LO? Really?

rainbowwillow

Breakthrough night, an almost 5 hour stretch on his RnP. The most sleep I've gotten at a time in over a month! He was extra fussy today so maybe he tuckered himself out. I think the RnP helped too. I tucked him in nice and cozy.

Dawn5481

All day yesterday I had a raging headache. I was hoping FI would be home by 5:30 to give me a break so I could lay down. Shows up at 7pm. After his shower and dinner, it's nearly 8:30. Of course, then he declares that tomorrow (aka tonight now) he's not going to be home until 8:30pm (aka 9:00-9:30pm). I was hoping he'd be up tonight so I could at least get a few hours sleep in preparation for a 13-14 hour stretch of being alone, but here I sit...alone...with an unrelenting headache. I want to go punch him in the balls, and cry.

klauke_t13

LO is up for the 2nd time tonight and is flat out rejecting my right boob. Wtf! So fed from the left and gave a couple of ounces in a bottle, and now I pump. So.freaking.tired!