Dear age board regulars,

two-pink-shoes · September 2010

Did you not expect, when you decided to reproduce, that your baby would wake up in the middle of the night?

Love,

TPS

(for some reason all these sleep posts are making me want to slam my head into a wall today)

jescgrl · September 2010

*hugs*

I avoid the age boards like the plague unless I have a specific question. I remember 0-3 CIO posts... I near about threw my keyboard reading those. Poor Babes.

Apparently they thought that children would come out of the womb STTN and be on Mommy and Daddy's schedule from the start. *eyeroll*

tomkat35728 · September 2010

Yeah, I don't post too often there anymore for several reasons and the sleep posts are just one of them.

I get frustrated when DS has a bad night - just like anyone else would - but I don't STTN, so how can I expect him to? Wink

BelhurstBride · September 2010

Me too! There seem to be so many! I try to be reasonable and understanding when I reply but all I want to say is that babies aren't meant to be convenient, STTN isn't the norm and to be lucky that your kid was only up 2-3 times!

two-pink-shoes · September 2010

BelhurstBride:
Me too! There seem to be so many! I try to be reasonable and understanding when I reply but all I want to say is that babies aren't meant to be convenient, STTN isn't the norm and to be lucky that your kid was only up 2-3 times!

Yep. I feel genuinely bad for the people whose babies wake up every hour around the clock, but the people who want their baby to sleep 10-12 hours are just not realistic.

LouiseB2001 · September 2010

I agree, I am really surprised too to see people trying to or expecting their LOs to sleep through the night at 2 months or thinking it is abnormal if they don't.

That said, how ironic that this post is on the morning where my DD decided to wake up at 4 am all happy *after* waking up every hour like clockwork since 6.30 pm. After lots of calming by both DH and me she finally went down for another hour at 6.30 am. Do I need to say that I am a Zombie today? So thanks for the sympathy TPS :-)

two-pink-shoes · September 2010

LouiseB2001:
I agree, I am really surprised too to see people trying to or expecting their LOs to sleep through the night at 2 months or thinking it is abnormal if they don't.
That said, how ironic that this post is on the morning where my DD decided to wake up at 4 am all happy *after* waking up every hour like clockwork since 6.30 pm. After lots of calming by both DH and me she finally went down for another hour at 6.30 am. Do I need to say that I am a Zombie today? So thanks for the sympathy TPS :-)

lol. I do feel sorry for the sleep-deprived b/c heaven knows I'm there too. As long as you don't post saying "my baby woke up early, I know she can't be hungry, so should I let her scream until her 'normal' wake-up time?"

WildcatPrincess · September 2010

Ha, I just came over here because all the "4 month wakeful" and "I KNOW he/she can STTN because they did it one time" posts on 3-6 are driving me batty today. It's like one person brings up the subject and others run with it all day.

LouiseB2001 · September 2010

two-pink-shoes:
LouiseB2001:
I agree, I am really surprised too to see people trying to or expecting their LOs to sleep through the night at 2 months or thinking it is abnormal if they don't.
That said, how ironic that this post is on the morning where my DD decided to wake up at 4 am all happy *after* waking up every hour like clockwork since 6.30 pm. After lots of calming by both DH and me she finally went down for another hour at 6.30 am. Do I need to say that I am a Zombie today? So thanks for the sympathy TPS :-)
lol. I do feel sorry for the sleep-deprived b/c heaven knows I'm there too. As long as you don't post saying "my baby woke up early, I know she can't be hungry, so should I let her scream until her 'normal' wake-up time?"

There was actually almost no crying involved. She just wakes up and fusses a bit, you know eehh eehh and when I walk over to her crib she gives me this big smile "mommy! morning time yet?" Then I try feeding her back to sleep, but she would have none of it this morning. But before I had her I was of no illusion that babies were not going to be like this. I read a few new-mother diaries, where the babies had different problems, one of them being an early riser (as in 3 am!). I think that helped in terms of my expectations.

erbear · September 2010

Meh, I tend to think it's the sleep deprivation talking. I don't think anyone expects their kid to sleep 12 hours from birth, but it is frustrating to only get sleep in 2 hour chunks for months at a time! When K was still doing that at 8 months, hell yes I was looking for something different and I'd complain about it!

liv97 · September 2010

I just looked at 9-12 for the first time (have 9 month old) and read this post where some people were talking about spanking, and I felt so bad. poor babies.

This board is much better.

KateLouise · September 2010

I'm going to admit that I naively thought that once LO STTN, then that was it. That unless there was a situation like nightmares,illness, teething that once they could STTN, they were good.

It didn't occur to me that they might wake for no particular reason, just like adults do, and need to be settled back to sleep. It definitely didn't occur to me that they could do this for days, weeks and months.

Motherhood has taught me a lot of things :-)

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