My mother stayed this weekend to help give me a break from things. Blissful. She did the late night feed around 11pm so I went to bed earlier after expressing it and then stayed up till Galen woke at around 2am (he is a very noisy sleeper and disturbs me often in the night), changed him and brought him up to me for his next feed. I then put him back into his basket and he stayed in our room for the rest of the night as he normally does.
Anyways, she has offered the next time she comes to stay to have him with her the entire night and do his feeds etc. Rather than remain awake and sit up with him she would give him his late night feed, settle him down in her room in his crib and have him with her overnight to feed and change etc and would of course sleep inbetween all this. I'd then take over in the morning at breakfast time.
I'd have to express enough milk for his feeds but that should be fine. Galen is happy to be with her and is used to her changing him. She has also given him a few expressed feeds now too. She has babysat Galen for a couple of hours while I went out also. I again left milk and all was well with them both while I was gone.
I'd love to take her up on this offer as I would give anything for a 6 hour stretch plus of sleep. It would be the first time in about 9 months I'd do this as I've not really slept longer than about 3 hours at a time (a few occasions have been longer) since early pregnancy. Hubby can't do the night thing as he simply does not wake up when Galen cries or stirs. He sleeps through most of it unless Galen is really screaming, then he wakes, but he does not function well when roused from a deep sleep. So I dare not have him try to do an entire night of feeds etc while I go crash in the spare room.
Would anyone else take their mother up on an offer like this? Galen would be about 7 weeks old when she comes to stay for the weekend.
Anyways, she has offered the next time she comes to stay to have him with her the entire night and do his feeds etc. Rather than remain awake and sit up with him she would give him his late night feed, settle him down in her room in his crib and have him with her overnight to feed and change etc and would of course sleep inbetween all this. I'd then take over in the morning at breakfast time.
I'd have to express enough milk for his feeds but that should be fine. Galen is happy to be with her and is used to her changing him. She has also given him a few expressed feeds now too. She has babysat Galen for a couple of hours while I went out also. I again left milk and all was well with them both while I was gone.
I'd love to take her up on this offer as I would give anything for a 6 hour stretch plus of sleep. It would be the first time in about 9 months I'd do this as I've not really slept longer than about 3 hours at a time (a few occasions have been longer) since early pregnancy. Hubby can't do the night thing as he simply does not wake up when Galen cries or stirs. He sleeps through most of it unless Galen is really screaming, then he wakes, but he does not function well when roused from a deep sleep. So I dare not have him try to do an entire night of feeds etc while I go crash in the spare room.
Would anyone else take their mother up on an offer like this? Galen would be about 7 weeks old when she comes to stay for the weekend.
but to have more than six hours of sleep in one go did me the world of good 
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she sounds lovely 
But Lily onlt woke up once and went straight back to sleep. Im living with mum and dad though atm so I trusted them 101% If the PIL offered though..... 
