9:30pm - 11:20 (DS started crying but I ignored him and he fell back asleep until 12)
11:30-12
12:30 - 4
4:10-540
I don't know what that is and I am too tired to add it up lol. I instituted a new rule where I am not going into DS' room before 12. So far it seems to be going kind of okay. In two days I am going to push it back to one and then just keep pushing it back. Hopefully he will get the hint.
I went to bed at 9:30 last night because I was exhausted from staying up late to do work all last week. Woke up for a minute when DH came to bed, but otherwise slept until DD woke up at 6:30. Ahhhhhh....
Post by biscoffcookies on Nov 5, 2012 9:21:10 GMT -5
Maybe 5 1/2 hours?
I passed out around 8:30-8:45, but DD started screaming at 10:55. I let her cry 15 minutes, but it wasn't her normal angry cry -- it was pretty distressed, so I went in. After I soothed her, she went back to sleep pretty quickly. Do 11 month old babies have nightmares?
Anyway, I wasn't able to fall back asleep until 3, then DD was up at 4:50 for her early morning bottle. I was only able to sleep about another hour after she went down.
Up at 11:30, 2-ish, 4-ish, 5-ish, and up for the day at 6:15. I was "up" for about 10 minutes per wake up and spend that time other than walking to DS's room horizontal.
What's really tragic is that I feel fine because this is normal. Bad-normal, but not unusual. That's about 7.5 hours, but pretty broken.
Went to bed at 9:30 10:30 - N woke up, DH got him back to sleep 1:00 - N woke up, DH tried, I tried, ended up bringing him to bed 2:00 - E woke up, I tried, brought him back to bed too 4:45 - E up for good. 5:30 - N up for good.
They also wallowed all over me all night, so I really didn't sleep. Luckily this doesn't happen every night, or I'd be crazy like I was when they were newborns.
From 10 - 5 a.m. I had several naps over the weekend. Overall I feel rested. DD slept so much better. She likes the time change. She woke up without argument. Which makes for a MUCH more productive morning.
karinothing - I am curious about this. With older babies, do they generally nurse faster? Because I notice you are getting up a lot but the awake times aren't huge (not that it makes it much better). When J gets up to nurse at night she normally spends about 30 minutes eating (which is actually an improvement over her daytime nursing sessions).
Yeah, honestly at this point he isn't hungry. I let him nurse for like 5 minutes (and this might be exaggerating) so he will stop yelling at me and then put him back to bed. So essentially I just do it to calm him down.
But he nurses super fast now anyway. I can't remember the last time I had a session go beyond 10 minutes.
6 hours and 19 minutes and I woke up 3x during that time. DS woke up at 4:30, possibly because he was cold (dang temperature swings and a toddler who can't cover himself yet) and I never really fell back asleep before he was up for good 45 minutes later.
I can tell you that 7hr 50 min of broken sleep in 2hr increments certainly does not feel like almost 8hr. I am going to bed as soon as M tonight, even if it's 7pm.
I fell asleep at 9 trying to watch Tv with DH. Got up to go to bed a half an hour later. DS was up at 4. He went back to sleep at 4:30, but I never did. Up for the day at 5:30.
DS fell asleep around 6:30 while nursing, but I wasn't able to transfer him off of me until 8. He's been getting worse and worse about that. I decided to go to bed then so... ~9-12 12:30-2:30 2:45-5 and then up for the day.
DS's are both sick. I stayed up late cause I'm dumb. Slept from 12:30 to 2:30 when DS2 woke up choke-coughing, then woke up again at 4:30 when DS1 came into my bed and at 6:00 when Hubby got home from work. Awesome. Up for good at 7:30.
Ds went to sleep at 7:45pm, we went to bed at 8:30pm anticipating yet another awful night.
But, he didn't wake up until 12am! It was amazing. Anyway, changed him and nursed him, back to bed shortly after 1am. Then he slept another 4hrs stretch until 5am. Nursed him to sleep in bed.
Dh was up at 6:30am for work, and of course this woke ds up. But nursed him again in bed and squeezed another hour of sleep out of him
Went to bed around 11:40. Woke up around 6:30 when the cat hocked up a hair ball, went back to sleep. Alarm went off at 7, listened to the news and got DD up at 7:10.
I slept from around midnight until 6:30 without interruption. It was awesome. Our kids have been going to bed way too late and then coming into our room multiple times a night with various complaints/needs. Yesterday we moved DS2's bed into DS1's room in preparation for clearing out the nursery for the new baby and also got them to bed earlier thanks to the time change, and they slept better than they have in ages. Yay!
DD is transitioning from a Rock 'n' Play into her crib. She is still learning that sleeping on her stomach is an option. Soooo, I slept from: 10:30-11:05 11:10-11:55 12-12:45 1:00-1:30 Gave up and put her in the Rock 'n' Play 2:00-4:00 4:10-7:15 Got up for the day
I nursed her at 11:45, 1:30, and 4:00. The rest of the wakeups were just popping the paci back in her mouth and rubbing her back.
I actually feel fine this morning, which is sad. This is about a million times better than Thursday night, though.
-Went to bed around midnight -L woke up to eat around 3:30ish, but I just pulled her into bed, fed her, and put her back. I probably slept while she nursed so it's all sorts of hazy -woke up for the day at 6
So 6 hours, minus the time for the 1 interruption.
It was the 3-hour commute that followed that's now kicking my ass...
Not enough but I can't really blame my kids most nights. We usually go to bed around 11 and wake up around 7:30. My kids mostly STTN. I nap on weekends.
I could have slept more but I am having a really hard time falling asleep before midnight these days I think I need to restrict access to my phone/laptop after 9:30 or something.