**The No Sleep Club**

[petchy]

not been posting for a few days, have been too tired. ruben wakes constantly. once it's for food and the rest of the time i've come to realise it's because his dry skin is itching. (despite being covered from top to toe in epaderm every night)

he didn't go down well at all (was scratching and moaning until midnight) then woke at 2am scratching. only had one boob at 3am last night, didn't want any more - but was awake crying and scratching his face, head and thighs desperately on and off until 5.30 when in desperation i took him into bed with me and cuddled him to sleep. (i know...) awake again at 7am when he did the most enormous poo!

i've tried calamine lotion on him but with no effect, and will try some 100% pure aloe vera gel today to see if it will soothe the itching. anyone know of any other anti-itch creams suitable for babies???

 

[Urchin]

I don't know petchy but I would ask your HV about trying Bicarbonate of Soda in his bath. I was told to do it when Mason had chicken pox and it puts a layer over the skin and really helped the itching.

I'm really struggling to put Brody back into his crib after a night feed. I must go off to sleep in less than a minute. He's slept in bed with me from the first feed all this week...I'm just digging myself a huge hole but I just cannot stay awake!!!

 

[lauramumof2]

Im at the end of my rag. After nearly 2 years of Jessica sleeping like an angel, 12 hours a night and a 2 hour nap she has went to waking 3 times a night, crying and not really napping during the day. Im 7 months pg and am having trouble sleeping but it seems that when i finally nod off at night she wakes up crying. Im crying myself just now im just so bloody tired and all she does is shout and want this and that. Her whole nature seems to totally have changed and im getting so cross with her all the time and dh.
Anybody ideas?????

 

[michelle82]

maybe its the terrible twos hitting? or could it be the new baby on the way and she has reverted to being the baby? maybe its a stage hun, dont really know what could be causing it does she just want certain things ? or just doing it to be a pain!?

 

[lauramumof2]

i thought it was the lighter morning and though I have a blackout blind It still lets in chinks of light so I sellotaped bin bags to the window and it really blacked it out but had no effect on her wakening up.
Im at a loss.

 

[Urchin]

Im at the end of my rag. After nearly 2 years of Jessica sleeping like an angel, 12 hours a night and a 2 hour nap she has went to waking 3 times a night, crying and not really napping during the day. Im 7 months pg and am having trouble sleeping but it seems that when i finally nod off at night she wakes up crying. Im crying myself just now im just so bloody tired and all she does is shout and want this and that. Her whole nature seems to totally have changed and im getting so cross with her all the time and dh.
Anybody ideas?????

Awww bad timing eh Laura?

It sounds like she might be getting uneasy as the baby is getting nearer, and she's looking to get more attention.
Supernanny would say "give postitive praise for positive actions and totally IGNORE attention seeking bad behaviour."
In the night, when you go to her, just say "Shhhhhhh" and that's it, don't get into conversation.
Maybe try and spend extra time one-on-one with her when you can, and really praise her when she does something good, even just a nice picture.
I know your a good mom, so please ignore this if you're already doing all this stuff, I'm not saying you should be doing things differently, just trying to come up with ideas for you

 

[lauramumof2]

Thanks urchin, I had been doing most of what you said but in the last month I maybe havent been doing it enough. Im getting to the 'im' tired and I suppose im getting a bit me, me, me. She also hasnt asked to 'see the baby' just as much. God, how could I be so stupid.

I must make more effort to do more with her. The attention seeking bad behaviour is getting more frequent and its not so easy to ignore the packet of crisps swiped from mummys bag and thrown across the floor as the hoover weighs a ton.


Thanks again urchin, its really appreciated.

 

[michelle82]

as bless her, maybe she'll get all the naughtiness out of the way now and be an angel when the baby arrives!

 

[Urchin]

God, how could I be so stupid.

Awwww mate it's not stupid at all! I totally did the same with Mason when I was pregnant with Brody, I was just so tired all the time, I felt really guilty I wasn't doing much with him. I was lucky in that Mason was old enough to understand and was generally very good, but when he did have his moments I tried to do easy stuff like colouring, or reading him a story and it made a big difference.
I had to be very careful about what I said to him though, I tried not to say "I'm tired cos of the baby, or I feel ill because of the baby" as I didn't want him to start blaming the baby for stuff before he was even born! Sometimes it just came out though so I had to go into long-winded explanations about how the baby was making me tired because I loved it so much LOL

 

[lauramumof2]

I had to be very careful about what I said to him though, I tried not to say "I'm tired cos of the baby, or I feel ill because of the baby"

Its so hard not to say thing like that isnt it. I tell her I cant lift her too much because im fat. And that the baby makes me a bit fat.


michelle, I hope she does as she is normally lovely.

Poor dh came home from a stag weekend to find me bursting into tears mostly beacuse of jess and partly because of a text message he didnt answer at 1.30 am. I eventually conceded that he wouldnt have been capable of working the phone as he was quite drink.

Laura.

 

[Urchin]

Update on Brody's sleeping:

He slept downstairs till I took him up at 11, fed him in bed and he woke at 5am, then went back to sleep till 9

 

[lauramumof2]

Go on brody!

 

[lisa31]

Good Boy - lets keep it up eh!??!!

L x

 

[michelle82]

yay brody! matthew went to my mums on friday night and woke at 4 for a bottle then slept till 7, sat night slept till 7, then back down until 9, sun night woke at 1,4 and 7!!!! last night slept till 6, back down till 8.30! think he is teething so that might be why he had a weird night on sun!?

 

[lisa31]

Heidi's latest sleep news:

Heidi was doing briliant - bed between 7-8pm then dreamfeed at 10-11. Then waking up at 6.00-6.30am.

However last couple of days she has been not wanting her dreamfeed - but then waking at 3.00am ( just like the old days!!!) - me and D/H finding it hard to cope now cos we have had about a month of her sleeping through!

Or if she does take the dreamfeed she is waking up at 5.00am - which is too early but she wont go back sleep so I end up just getting up.

She has been coughing and sneezing a bit - but then she always does both anyway and I cant tell if its a cold cos she seems well in herself apart from her sick which has gone a real thick and yellow consistency which is a new thing that started yesterday? :

L x

 

[beanie]

Had a god night last night (first one in a while). Seren went to bed about half eight and didn't wake til 4.30am. I had boobs like Joprdan and had leaked everywhere as have become used to feeding her at night but didn;'t care

 

[Dee1985]

i was hoping to never join this club but...

Harley is so greedy i realy dont no what to do, he has 6oz and after 2 and half hrs is crying for more but i always make him wait till its been 3hrs, i no its hunger he sucks my arm sucks his dummy like crazy nothing will settle him untill the bottle reaches his mouth then he drinks the lot and sleeps untill 2 and a half hrs again

iv changed his milk to hungery baby milk but he dont settle with it and gives him terrible wind, HV told me wind is more coman with the hungry baby milk.

im shattered
and to top it all up. Dior is teething, got 4 back teeth all coming through at once

 

[Kim]

What about giving him 8oz instead of 6oz Dionne? Or would he throw it up?

 

[michelle82]

i dont know about the wind thing matthews is no different maybe try a different brand? i use sma white but there are different ones out there. I wouldnt make him wait either just feed on demand i still feed on demand with matthew his times change daily according to if he woke in the night and what time he wakes in the morning. he could also be having a growth spurt ?

 

[Dee1985]

What about giving him 8oz instead of 6oz Dionne? Or would he throw it up?

hes still only tiny,hes 9lb his belly cant hold any more he just about gets 6oz in there.

i suppose i could try sma hungry baby?

but when he sleeps after his normal cow and gate hes so peacefull and settled untill hes hungry, but with the hungry baby feed he grunts and crys and scrutches up he seem like he has bad wind. and he does this right the way through to his next feed