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[Chickassan]

Morning!




DH and I were awakened by a crying Thing 1 around the same time. DH actually woke up first, consoled him and laid him back down. I was pretty deeply asleep. Fortunately, he settled down quickly.

I'm old and childless Rae, that shriek in the middle of the night is absolutely terrifying.
I think I tripped over everything possible thinking the worst and it is just a poop....girl I walked in your shoes for a second and my hat is off to you ! Don't know how any of the moms on here stay the least bit sane.

Add gnome socks to that list of pics.

Will do! Lol!

 

[Redhead Rae]

I'm old and childless Rae, that shriek in the middle of the night is absolutely terrifying.
I think I tripped over everything possible thinking the worst and it is just a poop....girl I walked in your shoes for a second and my hat is off to you ! Don't know how any of the moms on here stay the least bit sane.

I think the hormones help us adjust. I've always been one that needed a solid 8 hours to feel human, now I can adjust to an interrupted night's sleep much better. Thing 1 was generally up 3-4 times a night to nurse until he was 20 months. He started eating well around 18 months. Two months after that, I night weaned him because I started feeling like I was going crazy. I think the reduction in nursing eased the hormones that helped me cope. I don't know how I would have coped if I didn't co-sleep with him. I know most of the general medical establishment frowns on co-sleeping, but I followed the guidelines to make co-sleeping safer. Most accidental suffocations happen when a parent falls asleep with a kid on an unsafe surface (i.e. a soft couch). A firm bed with no pillows or blankets around the baby's face is perfectly safe. In fact, it is safer than sleeping in a crib because I found I was very in-tune to every movement he made.

 

[staceyj]

Yes I had a cat that could open round knobs...also could pull open the frig, never shut it though

 

[staceyj]

I think the hormones help us adjust. I've always been one that needed a solid 8 hours to feel human, now I can adjust to an interrupted night's sleep much better. Thing 1 was generally up 3-4 times a night to nurse until he was 20 months. He started eating well around 18 months. Two months after that, I night weaned him because I started feeling like I was going crazy. I think the reduction in nursing eased the hormones that helped me cope. I don't know how I would have coped if I didn't co-sleep with him. I know most of the general medical establishment frowns on co-sleeping, but I followed the guidelines to make co-sleeping safer. Most accidental suffocations happen when a parent falls asleep with a kid on an unsafe surface (i.e. a soft couch). A firm bed with no pillows or blankets around the baby's face is perfectly safe. In fact, it is safer than sleeping in a crib because I found I was very in-tune to every movement he made.

I nursed and co-slept with each of 4 infants. Never suffocated anyone.

In retrospect, I should have utilized the crib for naps more stringently.

I should have transitioned them to nighttime crib sleeping at some point before they were old enough to fight it, to allow myself to get some rest.

I was a person who needed some solid sleep in order to function.
I still am.
I figure I’m still functioning at an 8 year deficit.
At this point I’ll never catch up.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I nursed and co-slept with each of 4 infants. Never suffocated anyone.

In retrospect, I should have utilized the crib for naps more stringently.

I should have transitioned them to nighttime crib sleeping at some point before they were old enough to fight it, to allow myself to get some rest.

I was a person who needed some solid sleep in order to function.
I still am.
I figure I’m still functioning at an 8 year deficit.
At this point I’ll never catch up.

I transitioned him to sleeping in a crib for naps around 6 months. He wouldn't go to sleep without nursing but I would lay him down once he was asleep.

Around 8 months, I transitioned him to sleeping in his crib for the first stretch of the night so I could get some free time in the evening. He would come to bed and sleep with us after he woke for his first feeding.

And hubby turning on the TV in the middle of the night because he can't sleep certainly isn't helping, right?

 

[Sassysouth]

I was just the opposite. After seeing my niece having to be rocked to sleep still at 4 years old, starting off sleeping in the crib was mandatory for me. I had a bed in the nursery and slept in there most nights. He was up every 2-3 hours nursing for 45 minutes! I weaned him at 9 months, I wasn’t enjoying it anymore and I needed me back.
During my pregnancy, my husband was busy with his fairly new business, I was working full time and neither one of us were getting any sleep between his snoring and me trying to get him to be quiet. I moved to the other end of the house in the spare bedroom and never went back. When we moved 6 years ago, we each have our own bedrooms and bathrooms now. It works for us. Especially when I need to hide chickens

 

[Redhead Rae]

I was just the opposite. After seeing my niece having to be rocked to sleep still at 4 years old, starting off sleeping in the crib was mandatory for me. I had a bed in the nursery and slept in there most nights. He was up every 2-3 hours nursing for 45 minutes! I weaned him at 9 months, I wasn’t enjoying it anymore and I needed me back.
During my pregnancy, my husband was busy with his fairly new business, I was working full time and neither one of us were getting any sleep between his snoring and me trying to get him to be quiet. I moved to the other end of the house in the spare bedroom and never went back. When we moved 6 years ago, we each have our own bedrooms and bathrooms now. It works for us. Especially when I need to hide chickens

Sleeping in the same bed just made everything easier for me. I couldn't really sleep well while he was nursing, but once we figured out side-lying nursing I could doze off and unlatch him when he was completely asleep. I started transitioning him to not sleep in our bed, or be nursed to sleep when he was about 2. That took about a week to sort out. Since then, he's only slept in our bed for 2-3 nights when he was pretty sick and I was worried about him.

 

[21hens-incharge]

All the bitty birdies made it through the cold night with flying colors!

In the other coop.....Miss May stayed in and I gave her a dish of warm mash. She is eating.

We get past this snow and I will have a fecal float done. Just in case.

 

[Sassysouth]

If we would have had a second, I think I would be more relaxed, but probably not, it is just my personality.
I hear lots of women complain about the men sleeping with the tv on. My husband falls asleep almost every night watching tv, in the recliner. The next morning, I usually find him still in the recliner. At first it was weird, now it is normal.
My BFF’s children will still crawl in the bed and sleep with them, my child would rather sleep upstairs and take his chance with a tornado.

 

[staceyj]

Sleeping in the same bed just made everything easier for me. I couldn't really sleep well while he was nursing, but once we figured out side-lying nursing I could doze off and unlatch him when he was completely asleep. I started transitioning him to not sleep in our bed, or be nursed to sleep when he was about 2. That took about a week to sort out. Since then, he's only slept in our bed for 2-3 nights when he was pretty sick and I was worried about him.

I think every mom who makes the decision to nurse their infants has to work out what strategy works best for them. It’s not at all black and white. There’s no right or wrong way to do it.
I don’t care how “helpful” the dad is. When you are nursing, it takes 100% of the pressure off them and it all falls to the mom.