MOTN:March

SandNStarsNJ

Because I can't be the only one up. 

SandNStarsNJ

Sleep isn't looking good tonight. He's noisy but not really hungry and appears to be testing out his voice excessively. Is anyone else's LO "talking" with every pitch they can muster at great lengths? It was cute during dinner. At 3am, not so much. 

MrsMaryK2016

YES! He's constantly talking and playing with his voice. Thankfully he's not doing it at night so it's still adorable. 

SandNStarsNJ

So every hour LO proceeded to talk at the top of his lungs and then profusely cry and suck his hand until I came to the rescue. And this morning he woke up just chatting away until he ate for almost a full hour. I'm pretty sure he fell asleep while eating too. This does not bode well for the day. 

RhodaMorgenstern

A keeps waking up between 10 and 11. Nothing is wrong, she just keeps waking up. Weirdest part, she's not really awake. She just keeps making weird shrieks and trying to turn but she's still asleep. We go in, take her out of the Merlin, put her back in and she goes right back to sleep. Sleep regression?

Ladybug2821

RhodaMorgenstern said:

A keeps waking up between 10 and 11. Nothing is wrong, she just keeps waking up. Weirdest part, she's not really awake. She just keeps making weird shrieks and trying to turn but she's still asleep. We go in, take her out of the Merlin, put her back in and she goes right back to sleep. Sleep regression?

Could be part of it. Sounds like she's trying to practice new tricks. 

SandNStarsNJ

I'm going to lose it... this sleep regression has to have started. How did we go from almost 6 hours of continuous sleep to being up every hour inconsolably?!?

mrsmoose5

DD had a good first stretch of 8:30-3:30, but has been up every 30-45 minutes since. Currently brought her in bed with me and she's falling back asleep. Don't want to start bad habits, but this is usually the only way I can get us both back to sleep in the early morning hours

SandNStarsNJ

So at 6:30 I  rolled back into my bed, shoved the monitor at DH and told him they were his for the next hour. It was the best hour of sleep I've had in days.  

MrsMaryK2016

SandNStarsNJ said:

So at 6:30 I  rolled back into my bed, shoved the monitor at DH and told him they were his for the next hour. It was the best hour of sleep I've had in days.  

Why are we all letting out husbands off the hook?!? We should do what @SandNStarsNJ did every day. I'm definitely doing it tomorrow since H gets back late tonight. 

SandNStarsNJ

Admittedly I'm all too aware that he can't handle the stressors of an infant the way I can and since he's currently EBF I take all the all-nighters. But I return to work at the end of this month so he'll be stepping up soon. 

Side note: He's so bad at handling it that even though he works from home, he comes downstairs exhausted from hearing the ids. Men!

kvruns

MrsMaryK2016 said:

SandNStarsNJ said:

So at 6:30 I  rolled back into my bed, shoved the monitor at DH and told him they were his for the next hour. It was the best hour of sleep I've had in days.  

Why are we all letting out husbands off the hook?!? We should do what @SandNStarsNJ did every day. I'm definitely doing it tomorrow since H gets back late tonight. 

I wish I could, oh how I wish I could.  If I did I would truly be fearful he would do something in anger from the crying ( not intentional but it could happen). I do think need to force him to do other stuff to help like laundry or washing baby bottles - I've definitely let him off the hook with that stuff since he's basically ina depressed funk all the time. 

hoosiermama-2

My MOTN contribution tonight (sorry it's totally off topic^^) - filling in my one line a day memory book and it's exactly one year ago that we conceived LO.  TMI but I'm silently cracking up over here with her snoring away next to me. What a difference a year makes! 

m6agua

@hoosiermama I was just thinking about that the other day.

I should've tried to go to bed earlier. Of course when I go to bed at 11:30 that's when LO decides to wake up.and of course she won't just eat and fall asleep. She does but then wakes up once I put her in the crib and get settled back into bed. Twice now... FML.

m6agua

Also 12 hr diapers, no way, she hates her wet diapers. Great be her a poop one and she'll sit in it but a wet one ain't happening.

SandNStarsNJ

We got home a short while ago tonight from the same party we ended up getting pregnant at last year... it's like a weird nostalgia. 

kvruns

B used up all his good sleeping tricks visiting in FL bc now he's back to fussing when put to sleep, needing to be rocked soundly to sleep and waking up earlier. I miss my FL baby lol 

SandNStarsNJ

Maybe he liked the warmer weather @kvruns?

We're up for the 4th time tonight and I'm pretty sure he's nursing for comfort as he passes out quickly, but it's the only thing that stops the crying. 

m6agua

She's been up every 3 hours. While I am tired I read something that said when they are going through a growth spurt they just need food more often because it's burned off quickly. And she is in Leap 4 right now. So I guess it makes sense.

mrsmoose5

I'm so over my 2yo and his horrible sleeping. He was up 5 times last night! At 4 am he woke the baby, then woke her again at 5 am and now I can't get her back to sleep 

SandNStarsNJ

We've given in to using infant Tylenol, which was great the one time we used it during the day today. Then we gave it to him before bed and he was up within two hours screaming and sucking on his hands. Now I've just admitted round number three and he is nursing like a madman. 

Teething was was no big deal with our first. She woke up one day and there they were. But this LO is far from a breeze. 

Anyone have a tried and true means for relief? We're doing teething rings, Tylenol, & Sophie the giraffe. 

kvruns

Of course I wake up at 230'and can't get back to sleep when I go back to work today. My mind wouldn't shut off. Going to be a long day 

hoosiermama-2

Isn't that how it goes, @kvruns?!


Havent been able to fall back asleep after my 545 pump. UGH. I'd much rather wake up to a puddle at this point than to the pain of needing to pump and exhaustion the rest of the day. 

SandNStarsNJ

hoosiermama said:

Havent been able to fall back asleep after my 545 pump. UGH. I'd much rather wake up to a puddle at this point than to the pain of needing to pump and exhaustion the rest of the day. 

I choose puddle every time. But that's why my stash stinks. 

mrsmoose5

Ugh getting so frustrated. It has been so hard to get DD back into her crib after her MOTN wake ups. It's 5 am, she woke up at 4:30, I nursed her, she fell back asleep, but every time I move to put her back in her crib she wakes right back up. She normally doesn't need a pacifier to fall asleep, but I had to give her one at her 1 am wakeup just to get her back in her crib. Not working this time. DS wakes up at 6, so i guess I'm done sleeping for the night. Ugh!

m6agua

mrsmoose5 said:

Ugh getting so frustrated. It has been so hard to get DD back into her crib after her MOTN wake ups. It's 5 am, she woke up at 4:30, I nursed her, she fell back asleep, but every time I move to put her back in her crib she wakes right back up. She normally doesn't need a pacifier to fall asleep, but I had to give her one at her 1 am wakeup just to get her back in her crib. Not working this time. DS wakes up at 6, so i guess I'm done sleeping for the night. Ugh!

Have you tried a sound machine?

kvruns

@mrsmoose5 I have the same exact problem. His cut off seems to be 5am, so if he wakes up after 5am i'm pretty much screwed trying to get him back down to sleep. If it is before then I can usually get him down for another couple hours. So strange

SandNStarsNJ

@mrsmoose5 I'm suddenly having a very similar issue and last night had to keep LO aim my arms until he was in a very deep sleep before leaving him in his crib. I wish I had a workable solution as I too am contending with the older one waking when the younger one has finally gone to sleep. If I figure something out I'll let you know! Until then, I hope coffee keeps you together!

mrsmoose5

@m6agua yep! There's one playing ocean sounds in her room all night long.

@SandNStarsNJ That's what I ended up having to do ... holding her for a really long time before transferring her and then I just got up and poured myself a tall cup of coffee *sigh*

SandNStarsNJ

LO has deviated from his sleep schedule for almost a full two weeks so I stopped following that schedule. And of course tonight I have a sound asleep baby on me not changed for bed at the time of the old schedule. There's no way this goes well. 

MrsMaryK2016

Just leave him in his clothes! No way I'd risk changing him. 

SandNStarsNJ

I risked it. He's been nursing for a half hour. 

ETA: so we got a 9:30-1:30 stretch and now he has been up every 90 minutes consistently. With a sleeping toddler and DH, I can't let him cry it out. I don't know what else to try. 

desoky01

I usually do the 4am (ish) feed in the rocker in the nursery to help H with sleep. Tonight LO was pretty awake when I went to feed him, but he usually falls asleep again pretty easily while nursing. Well, the cat decides to be a jerk again and is ninja-ing around the room being loud and scratching on the curtains and such. So now I have a LO that doesn't want to sleep and a cat that got away with it all because I can't yell or use my hands. Ugh. I'm in a MOTN rage. Also, it's really windy tonight and once in bed I will have trouble falling asleep because of anxiety telling me our large tree in the back yard is going to fall and crash right into LO's room. Oh, and I have to get up in an hour for work. So. Grumpy. 

m6agua

@desoky01 that was exactly my night too! I've started locking the cat out of the nursery so he isn't loud. Well now he just paws at the door forever and it is so loud! Also super windy here too.

kvruns

Our dog was pawing at the nursery door yesterday when I was rocking B for a nap (he was super fussy, as usual, around 5:30pm). I was going to kill the dog if he woke up the baby (ok not really but it was driving me crazy)

desoky01

Our cat just won't stop! I know it's my fault because I don't have enough time to devote to him, but he keeps scratching and biting at everything! And knocking stuff over, meowing, jumping out at me, running at me, etc. It's getting real old. 

mrsmoose5

Pets are honestly the worst once you have babies. I can't even tell you how many times my dog has barked and woken up my kids sending me into a RAGE. He also likes to barge in the nursery door when I'm trying to put LO down and shake, which is so loud and always wakes her. I could go on with my list of complaints. We love our dog, but DH and I have pretty much sworn off any more pets.

SandNStarsNJ

Same here with a cat who hates people but needs my attention. She just stands in your way to try and remind you she exists. DH always yells, "Marbles, get a job" at the cat so now our 2 yo does too. It's ridiculous. 

jsmai

YES!!!! I love my dog but i keep threatening her that if she wakes up LO one more time I'm going to go as Cruella D'ville next halloween. 

hoosiermama-2

Also in the annoying, needy cat club  The weird and unfortunate part is that I developed an allergy to him during pregnancy so I can't even pet him or pick him up anymore without it flaring up! 

SandNStarsNJ

Trying another new approach tonight... we bathed, we chatted, we nursed all in dim lighting with no sound. He's asleep in my arms and I'm hedging my bets on whether I can put him down without waking him. FX. 

ETA: I failed. He's up and nursing all over again.