Any other expectant Dads?

[the-norseman]

Yep thats the one.

[8bit]

the-norseman said:

Does anybody elses kids sleep on their front with their knees tucked up like some kind of yoga pose? our 18 month old has been sleeping like this from about 10 months. looks so uncomfortable..

+1 more - well +2 actually because both of our lads did that. I gather that's very common, amused me no end. The other one I laughed at was flat on their backs, arms outstretched and bent at the elbows, legs more or less the same way, like they'd fallen asleep in the middle of some dance move!

[_Rodders_]

the-norseman said:

Does anybody elses kids sleep on their front with their knees tucked up like some kind of yoga pose? our 18 month old has been sleeping like this from about 10 months. looks so uncomfortable..

Yep, although that's preferable to flailing restless legs when he's on his back.

A heel kick to the face when you're fast asleep is a literal eye-opener.

[cwis]

8bit said:

The other one I laughed at was flat on their backs, arms outstretched and bent at the elbows, legs more or less the same way, like they'd fallen asleep in the middle of some dance move!

We called that one "cactus".

[8bit]

cwis said:

8bit said:

The other one I laughed at was flat on their backs, arms outstretched and bent at the elbows, legs more or less the same way, like they'd fallen asleep in the middle of some dance move!

We called that one "cactus".

Brilliant!

[Martin_Hx]

Ive loads of our 4yo asleep in funny positions... just need to wait another 10 years or so now to spring them on him

[Register1]

We both sitting in the hospital, waiting for 10 minutes to go into the birthing suite

[The Moose]

Register1 said:

We both sitting in the hospital, waiting for 10 minutes to go into the birthing suite

God speed

[fiatpower]

Register1 said:

We both sitting in the hospital, waiting for 10 minutes to go into the birthing suite

Snap. Although we’re just waiting for a bed for an induction to take place

[A.J.M]

Almost 5 weeks into parenthood with our first.
He’s breastfeeding well, is ok most of the time.

But we really are struggling to get him to nap during the day and by evening he’s overtired and utterly raging with everything…
Won’t feed, but is hungry.
Won’t sleep but is clearly tired.
Have dark room, white noise machine, etc.

It’s a battle from 6pm to 11pm every night to get him to settle and sleep.
It’s exhausting, as when he does sleep, he’s down for 3+ hours before needing woken for feed and change.

Any pointers on this?

[fourstardan]

Im watching the football and the Missus waves a test in front of me that's not a full line....she has gone down the chemist and the test was negative.

The next 9 months appears to have flashed before my eyes.

She is doing another test in the morning when the mones are apparently rejuvenated.

Has anyone seen tests do this?

[Register1]

fiatpower said:

Register1 said:

We both sitting in the hospital, waiting for 10 minutes to go into the birthing suite

Snap. Although we’re just waiting for a bed for an induction to take place

They just gave her the pessary to bring on so contractions.
They said it could be a couple of days.
The hospital parking charges are going to bankrupt me

[Carl_VivaEspana]

A.J.M said:

It’s exhausting, as when he does sleep, he’s down for 3+ hours before needing woken for feed and change.

Any pointers on this?

The problems in the 6-11pm zone are probably due to the overtiredness.

Have you got a body sling? I would just put the baby in a sling and try that when naps are due during the day.

[Carl_VivaEspana]

Register1 said:

The hospital parking charges are going to bankrupt me

If they don't the hair transplant you will need (due to the stress) probably will

[8bit]

A.J.M said:

Almost 5 weeks into parenthood with our first.
He’s breastfeeding well, is ok most of the time.

But we really are struggling to get him to nap during the day and by evening he’s overtired and utterly raging with everything…
Won’t feed, but is hungry.
Won’t sleep but is clearly tired.
Have dark room, white noise machine, etc.

It’s a battle from 6pm to 11pm every night to get him to settle and sleep.
It’s exhausting, as when he does sleep, he’s down for 3+ hours before needing woken for feed and change.

Any pointers on this?

Sounds like our eldest, we had the devil's own job getting him to nap through the day. For us the most reliable way to get him to sleep was either putting him in the buggy and going for a walk, or chucking him in the car and going for a drive. Shudder to think how much diesel we burned in a 3 litre V6 TDI M Class just so he'd sleep over his baby years!

[ooid]

My son is nearly two and still his naps are nightmare. He only sleeps in the car or in nursery (we have no idea how they do it). In early days, it was mostly about colic too. Ours was also breastfed until he was 1 so been told usually breastfed babies do not have uninterrupted sleeps. We were also using small formula (ready to go, starter packs) as a top-up and they used to help him as extra.

[Jambo85]

A.J.M said:

Almost 5 weeks into parenthood with our first.
He’s breastfeeding well, is ok most of the time.

But we really are struggling to get him to nap during the day and by evening he’s overtired and utterly raging with everything…
Won’t feed, but is hungry.
Won’t sleep but is clearly tired.
Have dark room, white noise machine, etc.

It’s a battle from 6pm to 11pm every night to get him to settle and sleep.
It’s exhausting, as when he does sleep, he’s down for 3+ hours before needing woken for feed and change.

Any pointers on this?

It's tough but honestly I think you might be expecting too much at 5 weeks. Ours were a few weeks premature and my memory of the early days is hazy but I seem to remember for for 8-10 weeks and maybe a bit longer it was really just a feed/sleep cycle every few hours, very little concept of day vs night. Not to say you shouldn't encourage them in that direction but don't be surprised when it doesn't work.

For ours, that evening window you mention was cluster feeding time, as another poster already said we gave a bottle of formula at this time and it helped greatly.

Good luck - it will change!

[MR2 Steve]

A.J.M said:

Almost 5 weeks into parenthood with our first.
He’s breastfeeding well, is ok most of the time.

But we really are struggling to get him to nap during the day and by evening he’s overtired and utterly raging with everything…
Won’t feed, but is hungry.
Won’t sleep but is clearly tired.
Have dark room, white noise machine, etc.

It’s a battle from 6pm to 11pm every night to get him to settle and sleep.
It’s exhausting, as when he does sleep, he’s down for 3+ hours before needing woken for feed and change.

Any pointers on this?

My experience is that they sleep whenever they want for the first few months. Normally on mum after being breastfed. You just don't get much sleep. We took it in shifts where i would get a few hours then cover from about 3am until 9am so wife could sleep. Whoever is off shift slept in another room.

Sleep training at 12 months was a game changer for us. It wasn't "cry it out".

[mcdjl]

A.J.M said:

Almost 5 weeks into parenthood with our first.
He’s breastfeeding well, is ok most of the time.

But we really are struggling to get him to nap during the day and by evening he’s overtired and utterly raging with everything…
Won’t feed, but is hungry.
Won’t sleep but is clearly tired.
Have dark room, white noise machine, etc.

It’s a battle from 6pm to 11pm every night to get him to settle and sleep.
It’s exhausting, as when he does sleep, he’s down for 3+ hours before needing woken for feed and change.

Any pointers on this?

Contact naps (on one of you) or in the pram are how we solved this. When he's fighting sleep having him on my shoulder looking round/ calm talking slows him down generally. Either way he reaches a point when laying him flat and gently bouncing him (head out, knees to my abdomen) sends him to sleep. As soon as you figure it they'll change.
Our 6 mth old sleeps like a star fish and gets most bed space as a result.

[cwis]

A.J.M said:

Almost 5 weeks into parenthood with our first.

It’s exhausting, as when he does sleep, he’s down for 3+ hours before needing woken for feed and change.

Any pointers on this?

Try dream feeding? Let him get all the sleep he wants. Let him wake himself up...

Maybe he's got a fundamental sleep deficit and that's why he's going bonkers later in the day when he gets over tired.

When my titch was little, wifey exhausted herself waking every three hours to feed and change her overnight and wondered why I was so fresh on the nights it was my turn.

I wasn't waking the sprog. I'd dreamfeed and change her (if she needed it) while she slept and was back in bed in less than 15 mins. Titch got more sleep, I got more sleep.... I ended up doing all the overnight feeds mind.

If he's a good weight you could try leaving him overnight and let him wake you if he's hungry. He might get more sleep that way too...