Dd has been up for an hour and a half. Ugh. She's standing in her crib, she won't just lay down. I went it, made sure she didn't poop, gave her some tylenol in case her teeth are bothering her. I'm letting her cio now but damn. I'm about to lose it.
I am on my first wakeup. We are getting some longer stretches this week so it's been nice. We are starting to think about when to possibly transition her from the bassinet in our room to her crib in her room.
We did a pumped bottle a la Moms On Call for the first time and it seems to have been a success. We figured why not rip the bandaid and transition from RNP to crib at the same time, too.
I'm on first wake up now. For the last month or so he's only been only waking up once, at about 5:30am, which I guess is technically sleeping through the night. And then we can usually get another 2-3 hours of sleep after that. He just turned 3 months yesterday and I'm so hoping the dreaded 4 month sleep regression doesn't destroy this.
Rough night here as well. L was up at 11:30 to nurse and then again at 3:15. He refused to go back to sleep after that feeding and I finally decided to get up at 4:30 when I went in to tell him it was still nite nite time (DH's alarms goes off at 5 anyways). Of course he is back to sleep and I am up for the day. It's going to be a long day...might have to indulge in one more cup of coffee.
DH and I got into a MOTN fight (well 11pm fight, but since I headed to bed at 8:30pm it felt like MOTN lol). He is responsible for one feeding; I pump a bottle so he can feed DS when he wakes up between 10:30-11pm. He's up anyway, and DS always goes back down quickly so its not a hardship whatsoever.
Last night, for whatever reason, DS was wide awake after his 11pm bottle. DH woke me up after about 15 minutes trying to hand him to me saying "he won't go back down, and I'm tired". NOPE! I'm sorry but I take the other 2-4x wake ups a night. DS is awake more often than not between 2-6am. You can GFY with this "I'm tired!" business. I was infuriated. He sulked and tried to belabor his position and in the mean time DS fell asleep in his arms and we went to bed angry at each other.
Thankfully he apologized this morning, but I have a feeling he did it more to keep the peace than anything.
scm1011- ugh, MOTN fights are the worst. We had a lot of then when C was born. My DH is horrible and not helpful MOTN because "he works" and I SAH. He has had the nerves to complain when L is up a lot, which was really bad most of last month. Sorry dude, you don't get any sympathy from me since you get to go back to sleep while I am up with him for a minimum 20 min and then have a hard time going back to sleep, just to be woken up again in a couple hours. Hopefully you standing firm will prevent him from trying to hand DS to you when he is struggling to get him back to sleep.
scm1011 - ugh, MOTN fights are the worst. We had a lot of then when C was born. My DH is horrible and not helpful MOTN because "he works" and I SAH. He has had the nerves to complain when L is up a lot, which was really bad most of last month. Sorry dude, you don't get any sympathy from me since you get to go back to sleep while I am up with him for a minimum 20 min and then have a hard time going back to sleep, just to be woken up again in a couple hours. Hopefully you standing firm will prevent him from trying to hand DS to you when he is struggling to get him back to sleep.
That's my hope! We both work full time and DH gets a solid 7 hours sleep every night (in the guest room, so uninterrupted!). Him claiming exhaustion made me see red when I'm up several times a night, every night.
Sorry your DH isn't helpful SAH is work too, and you deserve rest just as much as he does.
scm1011 - ugh, MOTN fights are the worst. We had a lot of then when C was born. My DH is horrible and not helpful MOTN because "he works" and I SAH. He has had the nerves to complain when L is up a lot, which was really bad most of last month. Sorry dude, you don't get any sympathy from me since you get to go back to sleep while I am up with him for a minimum 20 min and then have a hard time going back to sleep, just to be woken up again in a couple hours. Hopefully you standing firm will prevent him from trying to hand DS to you when he is struggling to get him back to sleep.
That's my hope! We both work full time and DH gets a solid 7 hours sleep every night (in the guest room, so uninterrupted!). Him claiming exhaustion made me see red when I'm up several times a night, every night.
Sorry your DH isn't helpful SAH is work too, and you deserve rest just as much as he does.
Thanks, I totally agree with you! I see red whenever DH complains about sleep too. L and I slept in his room the first 3 months so his sleep was uninterrupted as well. We fought so much on this with C that I basically decided it wasnt worth our marriage this time around since sleep is a temporary issue and fighting got me nowhere last time.