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s/o newborns and sleep...

Am I the only delusional one who didnt find the sleep deprivation to be THAT hard? I always considered myself to have "easy" kids, even when they weren't sleeping well at night.

During pregnancy, I actually slept worse than I did with a newborn, so having a newborn was a welcome break. During pregnancy, I would wake up every night at 1am and be up for the rest of the night. At least with a newborn I'd get to sleep between feedings. I found pregnancy way harder than the first few months with a newborn.

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Re: s/o newborns and sleep...

  • I was lucky- for me it was nothing a cup of hot tea couldn't fix and cold water on my face.

    But I am used to VERY VERY little sleep- working tax season FT and going to school FT and studying doesn't allow for much sleep.

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  • It wasn't that horrible for me. I remembver the last couple months of pregnancy I'd wake up every 2 hours to pee and think to myself "I wish the baby was here already so I'd have a real reason to be up." After DS was born and I had to get up every 2 to 3 hours to feed I'd think "at least now I have a real reason for being up." My DS slept thru the night from the very beginning. It wasn't til close to a year old that he started having bedtime issues/waking thru the night. I only hope DS #2 is as easy a going baby.
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  • For the first 6 weeks when I was up every few hours it was super hard, but after that it was definitely manageable. Once I started getting that 4 hour block of sleep I felt 100x better about everything.

    I guess I was lucky and slept pretty well when I was pregnant. I think even at the end I only woke up to pee once each night and other than having a hard time getting comfortable it wasn't too bad...

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  • When DD started sleeping 3 hour stetches at about 3 months it wasn't bad. If she had been like that from birth it would have been not bad at all. Until 3 months we were nursing about every 1.5 hours for 45 min at a time (24 hours a day). By the time I pumped and got her back to sleep I was getting 30 min if lucky. I actually hallucinated from sleep loss.
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  • imagemrsolsen2000:
    When DD started sleeping 3 hour stetches at about 3 months it wasn't bad. If she had been like that from birth it would have been not bad at all. Until 3 months we were nursing about every 1.5 hours for 45 min at a time (24 hours a day). By the time I pumped and got her back to sleep I was getting 30 min if lucky. I actually hallucinated from sleep loss.

    My DS did that-he'd be up every 1.5 hours and took 45 min to nurse. I actually found I got a ton more sleep nursing, since I'd fall asleep while he ate. When I had to switch to formula, that SUCKED. I'd actually have to get up, make the bottle, and stay up with him.

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  • My DD woke up (or barely slept at night) for the first 4 months.  And I held her most of the time she was sleeping.  For the subsequent 6, she woke every 3-4 hours.  After 10 months, she would sleep 6 hours then 3 then 3.  By 15 months, she STTN.  Somehow, I never had trouble getting enough sleep to get by without feeling like I was going to die.  I took a lot of naps, napped when she did, coslept to get extra sleep, etc.  I remember thinking, "son of a!" when being woke up a few times.  And I remember wishing I could sleep more.  But as I said, I filled in gaps with sleeping, so I guess I never got too sleep deprived - even with a baby who didn't sleep too well.     
  • I don't do well on little sleep.  Never did.  For the first 6-8 weeks, Ben was up every 60-90 minutes all.night.long.  To say I that was a tired, irritable mess during that time would be quite an understatement.  With the exception of a night here and there towards the end, I actually slept great during both of my pregnancies.
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    My DD woke up (or barely slept at night) for the first 4 months.  And I held her most of the time she was sleeping.  For the subsequent 6, she woke every 3-4 hours.  After 10 months, she would sleep 6 hours then 3 then 3.  By 15 months, she STTN.  Somehow, I never had trouble getting enough sleep to get by without feeling like I was going to die.  I took a lot of naps, napped when she did, coslept to get extra sleep, etc.  I remember thinking, "son of a!" when being woke up a few times.  And I remember wishing I could sleep more.  But as I said, I filled in gaps with sleeping, so I guess I never got too sleep deprived - even with a baby who didn't sleep too well.     

    Same for me.

    Both of my kids were great sleepers as infants..until they hit 6.5 months. Those teeth ruined all sleep here. I lived the first year backwards...twice now. haha. I would DIE without cosleeping though. I have no idea how people who have kids that wake up frequently don't cosleep.

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  • Yeah, that didn't happen for me.

    I was up from 3-5am almost every night towards the end of my pregnancy.  I would have loved for that to be the case after DD was born.

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  • DS was always awesome at sleeping, I didn't think he was hard to handle.

    DD was an easy newborn.  But the months 4 - 7 nearly killed me, she hardly ever slept unless I was holding her, and only for like 20 minutes at a time.  I nearly had a mental breakdown from the lack of sleep.  Ferber saved us.

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