Sleeping through the night!

[Anonymous]

YES! YES! YES! Wyatt has slept from 9:30 to 5:30 for 5 nights in a row now! Thanks God! A bit of hope for those of you with newborns, it does get better (just about the time you can't take it any more :) )

[daddygunz]

Me again. I think I finally have my cookies figured out where I'll stay logged in. Sorry.

[mjknapp]

Nice congrat's. that is a big step, Our son did good to, he started doing that at about 8 weeks old, then he relapsed a little at 3 months, but now from 8pm-7am every day with no problem. He is also 8 months old now, so that helps.

[Anonymous]

Whoever coined the term, 'sleeps like a baby,' never had children.

[mjknapp]

There are sometimes my boy sleeps through anything, anywhere his eyes close.

[SAHF]

Me again. I think I finally have my cookies figured out where I'll stay logged in. Sorry.

HEY...Congrats on both fronts! The cookies and the sleeping child!!

:lol:

Now you and the wife will have a little more energy... :wink: !!

[daddygunz]

Thanks. We're taking all the little victories we can get. :)

[Remington]

Hey Gunz, I like the avatar..

As for victories, they come far and few between with the 3 little brats. One falls asleep and another wakes up. :roll:

My wife works 7 days a week and got her first day off in like 7 weeks. We were trying to get all 3 to take a nap at the same time... argghh

With much persistence we succeeded and we were so tired from trying we both fell asleep. So much for the victory dance! :wink:

But it was nice to get a long nap.

[mjknapp]

Toddlers<-------- God's birth control!!

[daddygunz]

What is it with that? Wyatt seems to want to be an only child. He can be asleep in the other room with 15 types of noises going on and as soon as his mom and I even start to think about "dancing" he's up and ready to ______ (eat, poop, play, fill in the blank).

Don't know why we pay for birth control, he never let's us use it anyway.

[Jackson's Dad]

:-) That's always our idle threat to Jackson -- "if you keep fussing, you'll be an only child".

That is AWESOME that Wyatt is sleeping through the night. How old is he? May, so at least four weeks older than Jackson (who is 8 weeks old). Jackson's night sleep is settling down (or we are adjusting... not sure which). But it still takes him at least an hour or two to really settle in. Then, he's only asleep for 3-4 hours at a stretch.

Twice so far he managed to sleep 5 or more hours. I can't wait until that happens regularly. I am so jealous! :wink:

Dan

[daddygunz]

Yeah, I never thought it would come. Wyatt was born May 8th so he's just over 3 months now.

[Jackson's Dad]

THREE months? You mean I may have to wait another four weeks? Arrrrgghghhhh!!!!!!

[daddygunz]

I hate to tell you, but a lot of my friends said Wyatt did it way early. Hopefully Jackson will figure it out early, too. Until then, sleep when he sleeps is about the best advice going.

Oh, BTW, we did not give Wyatt any new food. He's only on breast milk. Just one day decided he needed more sleep.

[floridamcmarion1]

I think we are very blessed with our newborn. Faith, so far, has given us an about 4 hour stretch in the morning nearly every night. Not bad at all for a 6 day old! I just fed her for the first wakeup call of the night, so she slept a 3 1/2 hour stretch already tonight. Now she is staring at me wide awake, so hopefully I'll get back to sleep. Her normal feeding schedule is every 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

[mjknapp]

Man, my boy is only 8 months old, but it seems like just yesterday that we were, or I should say her, as I didnt get up to much in the night because I had to be at work at 5 am, waking up in the middle of the night to those tiny newborn cries.

[tt3]

If I remember right, Tara started sleeping 7-8hrs around six weeks, right when Val had to go back to work, then at about 3months she started waking up a bunch again... thats when she started cutting teeth. God Bless Val for still breastfeeding through that :shock:

[Remington]

All 3 of our kids slept through the night after about 3 weeks. Well, maybe it was longer but I kept on snoring either way. :lol:

My wife is the one with the breast milk not me so she got up. :wink:

[tt3]

My wife is the one with the breast milk not me so she got up. :wink:

I got the "If I'm going to feed her, you've got to get her" treatment... then she'd fall asleep while Tara was nursing :lol:

[Remington]

I say, "why have 2 tired people when it only takes one person to wake up in the night?"

Secondly, "If I am going to spend the rest of my life at home 24/7 you can be the one to take care of the little one at night if she needs feeding. That is your contribution to the family unit...."

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[tt3]

I..... don't know.... if our um... relationship is strong enough for me to endure ... well, um... the kind of repercussions from ... making well, um, such a statement. :oops:

8)

:lol:

Besides, I might get in return, "tell you what, you get a job to support us and I'll stay home with the kids :P "
:shock:

:D

[Remington]

LOL

Actually I am a lot more talk than led to believe. :wink:

But, I don't see why 2 people need to be awake. It is like saying if I have to feel pain then so do you. I understand there are times when you want to help and offer assistance as a "team". But there are nights that there is no need for 2 people to be awake at 3am trying to console a newborn.

:D

[Jackson's Dad]

Spoken like a true person who's kids are now sleeping through the night. :)

Our little guy is bottle fed, so lucky me, it's either one of us for the night shifts. But this being our first child, there are quite a few nights where it is "too much" for one person. Especially during the first six weeks. It's amazing how quickly a little crying baby at 3am can bring the strongest person to your knees!

I think once you figure out your strengths/weakeness, it makes it easier. I can't wait up and function in the middle of the night, my wife can. I can wake up very early, my wife can't. It took us a few weeks to learn this, and at first, it felt like I was just flawed as a parent (i.e. "why do I feel like screaming in the middle of the night?"). But once we figured out out patterns, and embraced them, it all fell into place (I stay up late for the first shift, she gets the mid-night, and I get the first thing in the morning).

Dan

[benj]

Jack D...my son refused the breast menu so my wife used the breast pump to fill his bottles...Since I could sense guilt taunting her for failing to be able to breast feed I was glad to be able to help her out with the four a.m. feeds...In retrospect I'm glad to have been able to spend those fleeting moments with him since it took me close to three months before I really bonded with the little bloke...No we're unseperable...

[Jackson's Dad]

since it took me close to three months before I really bonded with the little bloke

Yeah, no one warns you about how hard it is to bond with a newborn -- this soggy noodle with a floppy head and gas problems. TV and movies are filled with people being overwhelmed with love from the moment of birth. Yet for me, while I felt *something*, it was more mysterious and undefinable, and has taken a while to settle down into a feeling of father and son. (The smiling, which started a couple weeks ago, helped!)

Dan

[mjknapp]

I..... don't know.... if our um... relationship is strong enough for me to endure ... well, um... the kind of repercussions from ... making well, um, such a statement. :oops:

8)

:lol:

Besides, I might get in return, "tell you what, you get a job to support us and I'll stay home with the kids :P "
:shock:

:D



Lmao, I was thinking the exact same thing tony, my wife would punch me in the nuts and say you are awake now, go get him. that was a hilarious post Tony