October 2011

Just got my poppet into bed after 7 hours awake. Our record so far is a mere 2 hours sleep between the hours of 6.30am and 10.30pm last Friday. She stayed awake in the Manduca, pram, car...everywhere. She doesn't tend to go to sleep in her pram, even when it is moving...which is a pain as I have to take my 5 year old to and from school each day. She used to always sleep as soon as I put her in the manduca but now she will often stay awake, sometimes happily, sometimes not.

How are your nights going. We are still on 2 to 3 hourly feeds although she sometimes does a longer stretch of 4 hours during the first part of the night. People keep acting shocked that she isn't sleeping for longer stretches.

Lara is 6 weeks and 2 days old.

How often are they pooping? We haven't had any poo for a week. I know they say that is fine for a breastfed baby but as she feeds 2 hourly around the clock a lot of the time I do wonder where it all goes!!

I kinda wish mine wasn't pooing so much. He's usually during or after most feeds. Would be happy if it was just a couple of times a day, especially when he does it just after I have changed his nappy.......

We had a good night last night YAY! One 6 hour stretch, one 4 hour and one 3 hour.

My biggest challenge is first thing in the morning. Lara won't settle ever in the morning and I have to get my other 2 ready for the school run with the baby crying and I hate it. On the weekends I just pull her in with me when she wakes and she goes straight back to sleep in bed with me.

Through the night she feeds and goes straight back to sleep without a problem. I'm half wondering if I should treat that 6.30am ish feed as a night waking and feed her and put her straight down rather than changing her / talking to her etc. Unfortunately our room isn't fully dark in the morning but maybe it'd work. I am sure the fact she isn't settling all morning makes her overtired and hence she doesn't settle properly all day.

What time do your babies have their first proper awake time?

usually around 7 here - DD1 is up between 5.45 and 6.15 so usually its whenever DD2 wakes up after that.

good luck with the work decisions L2D

the poos are still 'normal' same colour & texture etc. But seems to get a lot of this shrieking/crying before a poo squirts out while she is feeding.

Wow that is a lot of sleep Kimmy! Today Lara had a total of about 1.5 hours (broken into small naps) between 5am and 7pm. Soooooooooo exhausting and mysterious! She doesn't seem in pain or colicky, but she can't stay awake happily and can't seem to stay asleep either...anywhere. Getting a bit flustered about it all but am trying to slow down and try to enjoy her which is hard when she needs so much from me and yet I have my other 2 children and home to care for. She is a lovely baby and seems very relaxed temperamentally so I really don't know what is going on with her.

Isn't it amazing how fast they grow!

spgettie68
did the mw/plunket suggest to feed only from one side per feed, if their poo is green/foamy it means too much fore milk.

Fiona
thats no good that wee one not liking napping at all! Are you demand feeding? I found changing to routine feeding is working better for us, and they work well around school/kindy drop offs /. pick ups etc, I just work on an approximate routine as go by his ques also.

He is waking up usually around 3.30am then 6.30/6.45am other night he got thru to 5.15 which was lovely! Usually up for around 20mins in the night but alas still tired.

I think the tiredness comes from someone else rather than our own body clock waking us up, and as a mother that seems to never change too much. Well Im only 5years into motherhood

Exciting re job luv2dance. Big decision to make. At this stage I cant be bothered working and aiming to be a SAHM for 2012. But who knows that might change if the right job comes up. DD2 starts school 2013.

When I have the energy/enthusiasiam Im going to have a big sell up of junk on trademe and that should bring in a few $$$ to pay the summer bills but prop wont do that to january.

ATM im enjoying the $150 a week from IRD - I couldnt get paid parental leave cos averaged 9hrs a week!!!!!

so I have pretty much decided to do my masters part time over 2 years. It should be pretty good because I don't have classes to go too, as long as I can get my work done lol. I'm quite excited.

Fiona, sorry to hear you're struggling with Lara's sleeping. Some babies need more sleep than others and maybe she is just one that doesn't need it. But if she is grumpy rather than happy maybe she isn't getting enough from each feed to be contented and needs to be fed like Girls Rock said more regularly. I have Mikayla on a schedule now and during the day make sure she feeds every 3 hours, even if she isn't asking for it yet. We have had 10.30-5.30am sleeps during the night and she is quite happy to lie on her playmat and look around or sleep between feeds.

Off to WINZ tomorrow to see how much money we can get off them to help with the bills while I'm studying

Classic, Plunket do have their ways of letting us know when we aren't bringing up our wee ones "properly" I had one friend who was told she wouldn't have a bond with her babies because she had stopped BF!
I just got the look because our wee man sleeps in his own room, was talking to a girl at plunket today and she said she had suggested she might move her man into his own room and got shot down really quick...thank goodness it was too late for me!
When I asked for suggestions of how to get more sleep during the day she changed the subject, when I came back to it her answer was useless so we just muddle along!!!