grrrrrr men
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Topic: grrrrrr men
Posted By: ellabellame
Subject: grrrrrr men
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 10:34am
sorry to be a complainer, but has anyone else noticed that guys seem to be able to sleep through absolutely anything??? i mean, no matter how loud the baby grizzles or how much trouble you're having getting him to sleep, in the morning it's still "he slept well last night didn't he, i think he's finally started to sleep through the night" grrrrr. i don't think he actually believes me when i say that i was up and down all night. ------------- |
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 10:36am
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Willie had the baby monitor in his room in case Maya woke up during the night (he's sleeping in the spare room to give me some rest) and STILL didn't wake up to her calling out! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 10:37am
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i wonder how they can sleep so soundly. i still wake up if mikey sneezes! ------------- |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 10:47am
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Oh yah I know exactly what you mean....mind you its worse when my hubby calls me up at work and says..."Zaara had a bad night aye?" ....so you heard it and did nothing and pretended to sleep?????? Arrrrggggghhhhh ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 10:50am
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lol, oh that would be soooo annoying! ------------- |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 10:56am
Nick's a light sleeper - I'm the one that can sleep through anything  ------------- |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 11:03am
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I wake to the kids, until about 6am... then I sleep through everything and Nat is the one who has to get up! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 11:21am
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lol, Kent hears nothing once asleep, its not until his alarm goes off that he wakes up, and if im already up and showered (5.30am) then he knows ive had a bad night
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 11:34am
| I don't think I'll have that problem, DH is a light sleeper. YAY!!! lol |
Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 11:50am
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Sometimes Roland will sleep through the baby noises, but it depends on how long I leave it, sometimes it will wake him up but he usually just goes back to sleep. ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: mrs frantic
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 11:56am
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he he...if that situation arises I think I will "accidentally" wake him when I get out of bed...
"öh sorry honey, did my foot in your ass wake you? Didnt mean for THAT to happen...oooppppss..  "
 If I'm not sleeping, no one is!!!------------- Mrs Frantic Baby Maddisyn born 28 Sept 2006 http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 12:17pm
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He he ha ha.....Good luck with that Frantic!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 12:26pm
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We are the oppisite DH is a very light sleeper and wakes up to anything. Also is side of the bed is the closest to the door so Andrew always goes there first. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 1:19pm
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Sunday mornings I play dead and make him get up. Which isn't hard coz Maya knows it's the only morning he's hoome when she wakes up (he starts at 4am Mon-Sat) so she's more than happy to bounce on him. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 1:27pm
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Just remember....you can roll over and "accidently" slap hubby/poke him/kick him or anything....just don't be the first to ask "are you awake?" 'cos then all your other half has to do is lie there and pretend to be asleep and you HAVE to get up.
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 1:30pm
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I did the "accidently" hitting him when getting up with Andrew when he was younger. It was really an accident. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: EthansMummy
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 2:30pm
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Haha very good ladies. I will use the poke/hit/kick thing. It may come in handy. DH is a light sleeper unless he is really tired. I am the same, my eyes open at anything!! ------------- ** MUM TO ** Ethan 29/08/2006 Brooke 22/09/2008 |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 3:20pm
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hehehe, i'll have to try the "accidentally" waking him thing. i wonder how that'll go down ------------- |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 3:32pm
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I do the "pretend to be asleep thing". Luckily Taine sleeps through now, but when he didn't, I pretended. remember ladies
keep each breath not too deep, but medium. add the odd snort, and don't move. If you can, roll over in your sleep and prode hubby awake, so now it's his problem. But remain "asleep" |
Posted By: MILF
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 3:40pm
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since i have been working nights, getting up to x has been his job.... and my mind knows it because i just dont wake up anymore! i always used to, and i am sure i will when baby comes, but at the moment it is bliss. even better is that she knows its daddy that settles her, so if she comes to our room she goes to his side and sleeps beside him... so i snooze on, blissfully away from kicking legs and wriggly bod :) ------------- Lyla - mum to Xanthe - my big 4 year old 
and Jordis - 1 year old 
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Posted By: kasbee
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 3:58pm
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My hubby can sleep through anything. When Ryan and Katelyn were little he was good and would get up and help me feed them but now if the kids are having a bad night and i've been up twice i wake him up and say 'its your turn now i got up the last 2 times'. The only thing wrong with that is most of the time Ryan and Katelyn want me and dad just won't do, if Blair wake's up he only wants a drink so thats easy. ------------- Kelly, mother to 4 wonderful children. http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 4:40pm
| My hubby sleeps through anything if I let him which I dont. If Im awake he can be to. At least he gets to go to work and have 5 minutes peace to himself where as the way I see it Im going to be busy all day too. This is my theory on tea time too, if I cooked it and one of the kids plays up or wakes up then he can put his food on hold because he at least got to have lunch without someone playing with his food or asking for a drink or even got to eat full stop! Im such a bad wife I know. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 5:14pm
dean can sleep through a hurricane i'm sure!!
i used to get really angry/upset at him when jack was a newbie...lying there snoring his happy little head off while i was up yet again at some ungodly hour with a baby sucking off me 
and here i am again, about to do it all again! what a sucker! 
even the dog knows to come to me when he wants outside during the night ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 6:17pm
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I have thought about getting Roland to help me with Erin during the night, but he has been finding it hard going back to work this week, and I don't mind too much - I guess I'm trying to make things easier around home with at least one of us more relaxed than the other ! Hmm... that still doesn't sound good, it's not quite how I wanted it to come across. Roland is really good with helping out in general when he is at home, I can't complain about that at all. ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 6:36pm
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We believe you Jax - we saw the pics of him cleaning up a very mucky Erin! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 8:39pm
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when i had gabriel hubby would get up and get him in the middle of the night and bring him to me then go back to sleep. with toby he would sometimes...
and sometimes now it is him saying, wake up tobys screaming... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Phat_Cat
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 9:02pm
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Well my hubby would sllep through WW3 I swear!! He never hears me get up during the nite to toilet the dog (or my self!!) or to sort out cat fights (weve just moved into a new neighbourhood so everyone is having their say at some ungodly hour!!) and when I mention it in the morning he says oh really? The best bit is his alarm has to go off 4 times before getting up mind you after 4 years I finally snapped & told him its comes to an end as Im sick of getting woken up 4 times & i dont need to be!! Goddness only knows how we are going to get on when the kids get here *sigh* he swears it will be different & that he will wake up properly when I do poke & prod him to tell him that im in labour (yeah rite) everytime i do that now (in practise i tell you ) he just mumbles rolls over & goes back to sleep....... ------------- Tristen - 24/06/07 Rylan - 11/12/08 Angel Babies -14/08/05 & 21/01/2010 Curtis - 26/02/12 |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 10:33pm
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lol, oh believe me, when the time comes he will snap awake in a second. mine did and he's the soundest sleeper i know. it was almost scary how fast he jumped out of bed ------------- |
Posted By: Roxy
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 11:05pm
My hubby such a heavy sleeper that I reckon if a burglar broke in Id have to be the one to deal with it!!!!!!When Brooke was newborn and we were having such a mare with her he got up couple times.never has since and I kinda know never to ask...he gets up bout 4am for milking so guess thats fair eh.Brooke really only likes me seeing to her during night anyway.but she sleeping through night anyway(usually) ------------- Caleb 15/11/02 Brooke 14/11/05 |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 7:56am
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Jax - that is the approach we used too... I would get up at night during the week, as Peter had to work and I didn't want both of us to be zombies At the weekends however he would get up and bring Joey to me and do the nappy changes if they were needed... He also helped(still does) heaps around the house! yay! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 9:09am
Yah I cant complain about my hubby....tho he does not get up at night he does loads around the house. He even cooks or starts dinner most nights because I come home around 5.30 -5.45 every day.......My nice hubby!!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mrs frantic
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 10:12am
You are lucky Roksana - my DH is way too lazy for cooking. Sometimes he "generously" offers to make us dinner and I know it will be only one thing - soup from a can with toast on the side... thats it. THats all he will make. SO mostly I land up saying "no no, I will do it" cos I hate soup and toast LOL! I think he knows that too the sneaky devil....! ------------- Mrs Frantic Baby Maddisyn born 28 Sept 2006 http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 10:58am
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Oh yah Frantic...I am lucky because my hubby is not like most lazy Indian male! He does vacume, cleans the Toilet/bathroom, lawns, dusting, rubbish, washing.....not all of the above on his own but we do them together. The only thing he does not know how to do is Ironing...and thats ok because I like Ironing!
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Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 12:34pm
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wow, lucky!! the only thing sam does is the vacuming and that's only if the house is getting too gross for him to stand lol. ------------- |
Posted By: mrs frantic
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 2:25pm
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hah!!! Well the only thing that my hubby does religeously without being asked to do is look after the dog - he feeds her, walks her and best of all /*ick* picks up all the dog poo (which is pretty good I reckon)... anything else must be expressly asked for and practically applied for in writing like seven days before the event - most of the time I just do the housework myself, it's quicker for me just to do it than nag DH to do it LOL! ------------- Mrs Frantic Baby Maddisyn born 28 Sept 2006 http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 2:31pm
roksana you freak!!! you like ironing!??  if it needs ironing...i don't buy it
while DH doesn't get up to kids in the night, he does do alot of other stuff instead. i'm am pretty lucky ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Roksana wrote:Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 2:34pm
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Yah I am........LOL
I dont know it gets me time to think (no that I am not thnking all the time...) but I find it relaxing.... I know I know...I am a freak...he he ha ha ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Phat_Cat
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 3:11pm
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< language=> Im the same as Jacks Mum if it needs ironing I dont buy it unless I really have to have it & then will iron it when needing to LOL. My hubby does vaccumming & mops the floor & we are supposed to have a system of whoever cooks the other does dishes but thats gone out the door as he is working so long days!! He is supposed to put out the rubbish & recycling but he gets the days all mixed up so its better just to do it myself oh and can someone please tell me how does washing get dry if its left in the washing machine?? I cant figure that one LOL. ------------- Tristen - 24/06/07 Rylan - 11/12/08 Angel Babies -14/08/05 & 21/01/2010 Curtis - 26/02/12 |
Posted By: mrs frantic
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 5:14pm
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hmmmm you know 'Binka's mum we must have the same brand of washing machine - because my husband leaves our washing in the washing machine to dry too!!! amazing! ------------- Mrs Frantic Baby Maddisyn born 28 Sept 2006 http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 8:54pm
| Okay, i have to brag now. I'm on teahing pratice now and Lewis is at home with the kids. I have envisioned coming homs to a mess, but everynight I've come home to a clean place - dishes done - dinner not on the table, but I prefer to cook actually. Washing done. I'm pleasantly surprised. |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 9:03pm
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wow, you lucky lucky thing. that's great! want to trade? (j/k) ------------- |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 11 August 2006 at 9:15am
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Except Liz, you now no longer have the "You don't understand how hard it is looking after the kids all day" when you haven't done any housework because of being glued to OhBaby all day
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 11 August 2006 at 4:43pm
| I'll make things up that I have done. he won't know! |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 12 August 2006 at 9:08pm
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I do that sometimes.... ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 12 August 2006 at 9:17pm
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I left Willie with Maya this arvo so I could have a nap (preggy prerogative) and she woke me up an hour later to ask me to put her Shrek DVD on coz Daddy was "snoring". Way to babysit Daddy! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 12 August 2006 at 9:27pm
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LOL at Willie... ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 12 August 2006 at 9:42pm
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I know. I keep waiting for CYFS to show up and ask me why my three year old is the only one in the house awake at 3pm... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 13 August 2006 at 12:57pm
| My nephew used to get himself up in the morning and crawl out the cat door to say hi to everyone at 6am. they had no gates either (this is at my parents house) so he just wandered around. Funny thing is, they live NEXT DOOR to a CYFS worker! |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 13 August 2006 at 5:28pm
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its not just hubby my father slept thur most of james screaming for about 5 days old till he had his op at 8 weeks ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |