Sleepless nights
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Topic: Sleepless nights
Posted By: Tami
Subject: Sleepless nights
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 8:00am
| my babys a month on saturday and im a bit annoyed.he slept 8 hours 4 2 nights and now is waking atleast every 4 hours again.ne 1 got any ideas to make him sleep bettter??? |
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Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 9:43am
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I know this isnt what you want to hear. But at his age. 4 hours is great! ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 9:43am
at that age you really just have to make the most of the goodnights as it is near impossible to influence a newborn's sleeping habits. with time it'll get better 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 10:23am
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my boy did the same ... 7 hours a couple of nights ago now between 2-5 hrs, he's 3 wks old. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 11:11am
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welcome to the club, my girl is 7 months and still wakes every 4 hours, somethimes every three. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: mumstheword
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 12:11pm
It will eventually settle its self my sisters boy is 18mnths and still dosnt sllep the whole night, but thats now because of her letting him get bad sleeping habits ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Tami
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 6:21pm
| yeah tru i guess,i jus need to try get some sleep during the day.It doesnt help hes a big piggy.he was born 7.6 and is now over 10 pounds.thanx 4 every1s help |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 05 August 2005 at 10:36pm
| My 9 month old has just started sleeping through the night. I was so jealous of Mummy's like you Tami!! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 2:49pm
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Well done lizzle! Bet you are glad to be able to get a decent stretch of sleep.
I got Han back to sleeping through the night for about a week and now she is waking about 2.30am and won't go back to sleep unless she is in my bed Having huge dramas with day sleeps as well as she won't sleep at creche.
Today I made a break through when I found the Safety-sleep I have had in the cupboard since she was born. Now that the little bugger can stand up in her cot she won't go to sleep. But if she is tied down then she eventually drifts off!  yay!
Tami - Great weight gain! He must be drinking a lot. Babies often wake more for feeds when they are having growth spurts too. But he sounds like a great sleeper, so you might find that he will be sleeping through the night soon enough... you never know with babies! |
Posted By: Tami
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 2:55pm
| yeah i no hes such a piggy,would hate to have him on the bottle would cost sooooo much lol.hes good most the time but is really unsettled at night.most nights he doesnt fall asleep till about midnight!but the midwife said thats normal and if we r out during the day he might be worst. |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 06 August 2005 at 10:18pm
| thank you nikki. but can't take any credit. while we were thinking about waht we would do about our demon child sleeper, he started sleeping through with no intereference from me. i hope toilet training is the same.... |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 3:56pm
| hahaha i'm not sure he'll wake up one day and decide not to wear a nappy any more... but it's not impossible! here's hoping! |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 8:24pm
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oh that does happen! Unfortunately they are not usually toilet trained. And they usually start to decide they dont want to wear a nappy anymore at their sleep time. So pee in bed greeeaaaatt. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 07 August 2005 at 11:25pm
| yeah, jake has worked out how to take off one side of the tabs. if he can connect the dots, I'm sure we'll wake up to some interesting "developments".....the jys of parenthood huih!!! Well, should be living with mum at that point. |
Posted By: amykate
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 11:23am
| My son started to sleep through at six weeks but I was told by doctors this was cause he grew so fast (he wasn't even in the 100th percentile on growth charts he was off the page and now at 3 he is as big as a six or seven year old)so with sleep I was very lucky but learned quickly that routines never stay around and are allways changing ie whilst experiencing growth spurts blah blah. When he did have awake times (weeks)there was generaly some sleep on the horizon further down the track. If you get down about (hard not to) baby picks up on this and is reflected in thier behaviour. One trick I learned for the older baby only was offer them water and they soon work out the reward isn't worth the tears. But I wouldn't start that one until ast least three - four months of age, babies younger than that cry cause they need the food for growth. |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 11:34am
Lizzie - you could just wrap masking tape around the nappy... LOLOL  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 12:51pm
| Atually lewis has been seen approaching him with duct tape,. I said NO!! |
Posted By: Tami
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 5:05pm
lol.well the night that my little 1 turned 1 month old he decided that he doesnt like sleeping at nights and stays up for hours and hours screaming.ive tryed feeding him he didnt want it.tryed changing his nappy,he kept screaming.gave him a bath he kept going walked round the house he carmed down.turned music on and started sing along to it he went to sleep.hes doing this every night now and everynight wants something different.sooooo today ive only let him sleep 2 hours at a time......lets hope he sleeps better tonight!!!!!!!  ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 08 August 2005 at 6:26pm
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Lizzle we had to use masking tape for both our boys it owrks a treat. Just end it at the back cause it doesn't take them long to work it out.
Tami I feel for you, my first son was like that. I ended up having sleeps from 6-00pm to 11-00pm and mum looked after him, then I would be up untill 5-00am, they do get better so hang in there. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 11:31am
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OMG, LOL, I was just joking about the masking tape - I didn't know that people actually did that!!! I must be a natural, ROFL ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 12:08pm
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LOL, I know of at least 8 or 9 people that have resorted to masking tape, it sounds horrible but it saves the clothes, bed not to mention the carpet if there is something particuly nasty in their nappy. I can remember my neice painting her mummy a beautiful picture on a door with the contents of her nappy. Hence to say the masking tape came out after that incident ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 1:07pm
| I thought lewis was just joking!!!! He told me the same thing. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 1:30pm
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yep i've heard of that and also i've heard of parents putting the nappy on backwards so baby can't reach the tabs but if they're really determined then they're gonna get them even if they're at the back. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 2:18pm
| ooh, maybe we'll try that first. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 9:45pm
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only problem with that is that if you buy nappies specially designed for boys, they usually have more padding aroudn the front to absorb where it is needed most.. turning it around means yhou don't get that, but other than that it might work for a while, that and maybe buy some small sized boys undies, or overpants and put them over the top so that he has to figure out how to get them off first. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 August 2005 at 9:49pm
Back to the sleeping thing.. it's pretty normal for babies this young to vary heaps. Ayja has had a few nights where she has slept from 8.30 pm till 6.30 am.. it was bliss, but each time i woke up panicking thinking something was wrong. other nights she wakes up every 2 hours. definately try and get some sleep during the day Tami, otherwise you will find you will end up going slightly batty very soon even if you don't think you are that tired.. my bet is, go for an afternoon nap if you can and you'll wake up feeling so much better.  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 10 August 2005 at 10:18pm
I left Hannah without a nappy on the other day. Boy that was a mistake! Came back in and she'd done poos and was playing with them.  She'd managed to eat a bit too I didn't know where to start the clean up!!!!!! 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 11 August 2005 at 9:38am
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ick. bet that made you gag just slightly. lol ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: kbushnz
Date Posted: 11 August 2005 at 11:07am
Being preganant i'm finding just change briana's regular pooey nappies a mish - i'd hate to think of what i would do if she started to do that  ------------- http://www.baby-gaga.com/"> 
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 11 August 2005 at 12:39pm
Oh the joys of parenthood, roll on....  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 12 August 2005 at 12:02pm
| Yeah, babies on solids have got some serious problems!!!!! Well, their mums do anyway. I'e had to apologise for jake's stench at times......oh well, takes after his father I guess. |
Posted By: Meg
Date Posted: 12 August 2005 at 2:05pm
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Tami... I had a similar thing with my little girl at about the same stage. She was always awake between 6pm and midnight.. would sleep for maybe an hour, but then would wake up. Usually I'd get her settled, then put her down & she'd wake within 10mins crying. The doctor put it down to reflux (she's a bit spilly too), and put us on Zantac. She's much more settled now, although 7.5 hours is the longest she's gone between feeds at 11 weeks. It doesn't really bother me as the night feeds are pretty quick.. she eats and then goes back to sleep.
I tried all manner of things to get her to settle in the evenings, and I don't know which was the one that fixed it.. could have been the Zantac, the dairy & chocolate free diet, making sure she feeds more regularly & longer during the day or just the fact that she's growing up! We still have some nights where it takes a couple of hours for her to settle properly, but nothing like it was at 6 weeks. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 12 August 2005 at 2:10pm
Argh i had a real doozy with Ayja on wednesday. After visiting daycare i went to walk over to the doctors, to find that our buggy had flat tyre, i took it over to mike's work so he could pump it up but it turned out to be a nasty puncture. so he dorps me off at the doctors, with 2 kids, Ayja in the front pack and Paris on her "leash" as he calls it. just a little pink wrist band thing really that attaches to both our wrists.. i still hold her hand. anyway, sitting in the waiting room Ayja decides to well and truely fill her nappy, and you guessed it, since she was in a front pack, there wasn't really anywhere for it to go except out the edges of her nappy. of course, i didn't know this till i took her pants off as the nurse was about to give her her Menz-b jab. her fluffies were full and a lovely yellow colour. how embarassing!!! 
so she had her jab, and i then managed to get her changed, luckily it only went into her fluffies not her pants, so she just went fluffie-less for the rest of the day. oh yeah, and never again am i taking both kids up town without a buggy! Paris was a little Angel, and Ayja went to sleep in the front Pack. but wow, it took me nearly an hour to get back over from the doctors to mikes work cos Paris walks soooo slowly. poor girl. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 12 August 2005 at 2:25pm
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 12 August 2005 at 3:02pm
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LOL Janine we have the same pink 'leash'! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Xander&Harmony
Date Posted: 12 August 2005 at 4:03pm
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hehehehehe we have the blue "leash" for xander.is only a new thing tho so hes not too keen on having it round his wrist!! Actually i brought it after Paris' party cos Harmony was asleep in the pram n dont think Xander would have wanted to be in a front pack lmao! I ended up havin gto carry a heffalump 16kg kid on my hip whilst trying to push/steer the pram!! never again unless we win lotto then i can buy a nice double pram ------------- BECS http://www.sparklee.com"> 
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Posted By: Tami
Date Posted: 17 August 2005 at 2:10pm
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lol...well now most nightshes ok now normal waks once...sometimes even sleeps through the night hes 6 weeks 2day and is going great...he weighs 10.10(was born 7.6)so thank every1 4 posting on this ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 2:05pm
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wow, that is so good, lucky lady! Ayja is now 3 months old, was 6 lb 2 born and even though she gained heaps to start off with, she's now only just over 10 pound. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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