Crappy Sleepers Club

I have hardly any caffine. No tea or coffee, and only the occassional coke.

i have to come back soon and read this..Liam has always done 45mins sleeps in day and 6-8 then 4 at night but last four have been every two hours...omg:( it sucks so bad.!

i drink a fair amount of caffeine but pretty sure that makes no difference if anything when i dont its worse lol..

Not a good sleeper when preg and so I'm knackered now..i get so irritated at DH sleeping soundly while I'm up all the time.. he had 100ml formula yesterday(before then wont take bottle) and slept longer not sure if coincidence as today he has been sleeping well too.... though good day sleep seems to be crap night sleep...grr:(

I just read yours mamanee same as Liam good day bad night etc! and he's still so young i havent really tried much resettling.. the only good thing is he has started self settling most of the time thank goodness..rocking was hard.. sometimes during the day i had to but never at night thank goodness...(better make another post i guess) :)

chelle wrote: Disco wrote: chelle wrote: I'm in too! Just when things seemed to be settling down and we were getting better nights AND better days he decided he'd rather wake up lots and go back to catnaps only.   V and coke are my friends. But on the bright side it was a great bargaining tool for getting DH to go out and get takeaways even though he's cooked the last 4 nights. i noticed that when i gave up drinking all drinks with caffeine in them, and for me that was coke, things got better, the caffeine in them was just too much for DD. it was hard for me as it was a pick me up when i was really tired. She was waking a couple of times a night. Now i don't drink any fizzy drinks and we sleep from 7pm - anywhere from 5am- 7am. i occassionally have a coke now and she always wakes up when i do. just a thought! may the sleep fairy visit you all as I know how hard it is! i just had 6 months of it. disco I'm FF though so pretty sure it doesn't affect him

definitely not that then, thank god for v and coke then :)

I'm still a member of this club nearly 13mths on.....

I can count on one hand the number of times DS has slept through the night. On a good night he wakes once or twice, otherwise it's 4-5x. I'm kinda use to the sleep deprivation now.

erinalba wrote: I'm usually in bed at around 7.30 to 8pm because I'm so tired and it gives me a little extra broken sleep.

Me too! I never thought this would still be the case as we approached 6 months! I want to feel like a grown up again. Sigh.

We had a brilliant sleep on Friday night. I got 3 hours in a row, TWICE! With only a 35 minute wakeup in between.
Then last night was back to awful. Up every hour, and then from 2-4 am. I brought her back to our bed at 1, but that didn't help.

Does anyone else get the impression their babies are up because they are uncomfortable? It seemed like DD had a really sore tummy last night, but it often does. She's exclusively BF, and I eat a pretty limited diet to try and keep her happy, but it seems crazy that she'd be so sensitive. Friday showed me once again that if she's comfy, she's actually not a bad sleeper.

We were the same last night 4 or 5 times I can't clear her nose as she gets all upset.

I fed her in bed last night and kept falling asleep without putting her back. DP woke me up and said you have to take her back to bed or I'll roll on her. Grrr he could've picked her up and taken her back without making me do it! But he has man flu so can't complain too much.

okay, I'm signing up! Lauren has always been a crappy sleeper, and I'm beginning to think she always will be. I can count on two hands the number of nights she's slept for 8hrs solid, and only once ever did she do an 11 hour stretch - only because she was so exhausted I think!

Such a difference from Ivy who has always been a really fantastic sleeper... baby is due in just a couple of weeks now and at least I can say that it can't actually be worse than Lauren! lol I'm so used to being woken multiple times a night that sometimes I wake up when L doesn't these days, just waiting for it to happen.... plus I'm not sleeping the best right now anyways, even when I'm knackered.

DH sleeps through everything. Because of this he can't actually put Lauren back to sleep because she just won't go to him for that, and I can't afford for her to wake up her big sister too much because then she's grumpy and very difficult to manage. Fun times! I am holding onto the hope that the new baby seems to sleep better in-utero. Lauren used to startle at every noise, where as if this one is sleeping, it stays sleeping. Fingers crossed right?

I wish I could say that all of your babies will magically be better sleepers soon, but I haven't found that to be the case with mine. I know it won't last forever though, so I'm hanging in there and doing what I can. You just do the best you can right?

Hang in there ladies!

For the record, Lauren is still in our bed (it was the only way I could get any sleep initially, and well, its snuggly lol DH and I both actually like having her there), and is still BF. I still feed her to sleep when she is having a really hard time falling asleep, though not all the time anymore. Some kids just seem to loathe sleep and will do anything to avoid it - she's one of them!

Ooh can I join this club? Yes my baby is almost 16months old, but she's never been very good at sleeping

I should be in bed after our terrible night last night, but she woke up 1.5hrs ago and is not planning on going to bed any time soon

Unfortunately pushing the bed up against the wall won't work, and he wakes me up even if she is on my side of the bed. (I sleep with my arm around her and she doesn't move when asleep).

But last night was kind of an improvement. One of her wake ups she didn't want a feed so I managed to resettle her (after 30 minutes of cuddles) so hopefully that'll help with the waking tonight!

I know I shouldn't say it but it is comforting to know that so many other people have crappy sleepers! All my CG seemed to have no problems getting their kids to sleep though.

Nights are getting a little better here since Ben's teeth have started cutting, a molar, a canine and a bottom tooth from what I can see/feel in the last week. He is still up at least twice in the nigh plus once before I go to bed, but this is better than it was. Plus he has spent most or all of the last few nights in his cot rather than his bed.
Now I just have to get Jack to stop sneaking into our bed, he has got good at it and I hardly notice most times! I think I returned him to his bed a few times last night but gave up when I found he had returned yet again!