Sleep

[crl]

Why can't I have kids who sleep? This is ridiculous. Neither one of my kids can be counted on to sleep through the night. (And ds is SEVEN years old and dd is 14 months!!!) I can't remember the last time I got to sleep though the night. I think the best I have gotten is 5 hours straight in the last week. In the last two months I have probably averaged 4 hours straight with many nights of very little more sleep of any kind.

And now dd has decided to wake up from naps hysterically inconsolable.

I JUST WANT TO SLEEP.

Catherine

[citymama]

I hear you. My 5 yr old and 1 yr old both wake up every single night. And rarely at the same time. I seem to have similarly sleep-challenged kids.

[crl]

I hear you. My 5 yr old and 1 yr old both wake up every single night. And rarely at the same time. I seem to have similarly sleep-challenged kids.

Can we just put all them in the same room together and let them console each other? :hysterical: Laughing is better than crying, right?

Catherine

[goldenpig]

Why can't I have kids who sleep? This is ridiculous. Neither one of my kids can be counted on to sleep through the night. (And ds is SEVEN years old and dd is 14 months!!!) I can't remember the last time I got to sleep though the night. I think the best I have gotten is 5 hours straight in the last week. In the last two months I have probably averaged 4 hours straight with many nights of very little more sleep of any kind.

And now dd has decided to wake up from naps hysterically inconsolable.

I JUST WANT TO SLEEP.

Catherine


I hear you. My 5 yr old and 1 yr old both wake up every single night. And rarely at the same time. I seem to have similarly sleep-challenged kids.

:yeahthat: Can I join the (GotheF*toSleep) club?

[DietCokeLover]

I need to join the club too. DD is hard to get to sleep. DS gets up in the middle of the night and sleeps with us. DD wakes up seriously early.

Aaaarrrrgggghhh

[MSWR0319]

I'd like to join too please! DS just slept for 12 hours last night for the first time....and he's 2.5. And the whole waking up from naps inconsolable...if anyone has a solution please let us know!!

[citymama]

Can we just put all them in the same room together and let them console each other? :hysterical: Laughing is better than crying, right?

Catherine

We could put the 7 and 5 yr old in charge of getting the babies to sleep. That'll teach them. ;)

[crl]

We could put the 7 and 5 yr old in charge of getting the babies to sleep. That'll teach them. ;)

I once made ds get up with me every single time dd woke me up and come into her room until I got her back to sleep. He didn't wake me up again in the middle of the night for a good two weeks.

I swear sleep deprivation is the worst part of parenting.

Not to mention how much beer I've bought for the guys next door to apologize for the teething/screaming baby.

Catherine

[HonoluluMom]

Yes, I absolutely will join this club!

I would love to get just one good night's sleep - 8 hours, uninterrupted!

[jgenie]

I feel your pain!! DS2 is 16 months and wakes every 2 - 3 hours. DS1 likes to wake just as DS2 goes to sleep. I've been praying for 6 hours straight forever but no luck so far.

[elizabethkott]

I'm joining the gothef*cktosleep club too. I'd like to run for an officer. Not anything big like president... I'm too tired to do the job.
Stevie did really well on Wednesday and Thursday night - he only woke up after I had gotten in the shower, thus making my getting ready for work routine really challenging... and J had been doing well too... and then there was last night with Stevie up from 2:30-3:30 and J crawling in bed with us at 4:45.
Sigh.
I really think I'm going to have to figure out the logistics of the toddler tranqulizer dart, specifically the extended time release formula. It would be soooooo useful at bedtime and to get through the night...

[mjs64]

I'm joining the gothef*cktosleep club too. I'd like to run for an officer. Not anything big like president... I'm too tired to do the job.
:ROTFLMAO:

I'll vote for you if I can get out of the house in one piece. Sleep deprivation is an actual form of torture, you know.

[crl]

I'm joining the gothef*cktosleep club too. I'd like to run for an officer. Not anything big like president... I'm too tired to do the job.


Sigh.
I really think I'm going to have to figure out the logistics of the toddler tranqulizer dart, specifically the extended time release formula. It would be soooooo useful at bedtime and to get through the night...

If you master that tranquilizer dart thingy, I will pay good money for it!

Catherine

[MSWR0319]

If you master that tranquilizer dart thingy, I will pay good money for it!

Catherine

:yeahthat:

[momm]

If you master that tranquilizer dart thingy, I will pay good money for it!

Catherine

:yeahthat:

LO was up every.half.an.hour last night. EVERY half hour. Screaming. Like someone was torturing him. He was confused. It was me that was being tortured.
I kept looking at the clock wondering how he manages to wake up so accurately every half hour.

[crl]

:yeahthat:

LO was up every.half.an.hour last night. EVERY half hour. Screaming. Like someone was torturing him. He was confused. It was me that was being tortured.
I kept looking at the clock wondering how he manages to wake up so accurately every half hour.

:grouphug: and how do they have energy to run around and play the next day?!?!?! My neighbors are always saying dd is the happiest baby ever. I'm like, take her for a night and see if you still think that.

Catherine

[jenfromnj]

Sadly, I'd like to join the club, too. I never thought DS would be 2 and still waking during the night on a regular basis. And the only thing more maddening than the waking/lack of sleep is the fact that people have so many, ahem, "helpful suggestions", many of which strongly imply that I simply MUST be doing something wrong to have such a bad sleeper. Tired sigh.



I really think I'm going to have to figure out the logistics of the toddler tranqulizer dart, specifically the extended time release formula. It would be soooooo useful at bedtime and to get through the night...

LOL! DH is always saying that he's going to find a way to make baby/toddler Ambien.


:grouphug: and how do they have energy to run around and play the next day?!?!?! My neighbors are always saying dd is the happiest baby ever. I'm like, take her for a night and see if you still think that.

Catherine

Catherine, my DS is the same way! I really can't understand how he wakes at 6am raring to go after being up at night, barely naps all day, and just never stops moving for a second. all. day.
I'm always telling him, it's not fair that he needs less sleep than I do!

[crl]

Sadly, I'd like to join the club, too. I never thought DS would be 2 and still waking during the night on a regular basis. And the only thing more maddening than the waking/lack of sleep is the fact that people have so many, ahem, "helpful suggestions", many of which strongly imply that I simply MUST be doing something wrong to have such a bad sleeper. Tired sigh.

I do!

I know. I have a neighbor, one is is really very nice, who keeps saying I need to let her cry it out. Well, I have ds who sleeps horribly as it is, dh who works 12-14 hour days and has a 2 hour round trip commute, and neighbors with a bedroom just on the other side of the wall (townhouses). And dd doesn't whimper, she SCREAMS. Not to mention that dh cannot tolerate the crying in the middle of the night. So, really, it just is not viable. Stop suggesting it.

Thankfully dd does nap quite well. So I guess I don't have that to complain about this time around. (DS was not a good napper.)

Catherine

[sste]

You poor thing. That is awful!!

Do you have family or even a sitter that can watch them for a night? My DH and I try once in a great while to take a "sleep vacation" and leave the kids for the night with my inlaws (if my inlaws were more available, I would certainly do this more :) ). We also have one sitter who does overnights.

Sometimes just one good, uninterrupted night of sleep gets you back in the game with months of payoff . . .

Also, if your kids are waking more than one per night each or something is unusual, there are sleep specialist mds out there. When my dd was born my son went crazy with his sleep and my poor DH was a zombie taking care of him while I tended to DD. Our pedi met with us to come up with a behavior plan - - he emphasized everything should be blamed on him "Dr. N says you need to do X to stay healthy." And he told us that if it didn't work in a month he had a short list of sleep docs who could do more advanced behavioral intervention. We didn't end up needing that but it was a relief knowing we had a back-up plan.

[swissair81]

My mother has informed me that is all my fault that my baby wakes up at night. That would be because I nurse her back to sleep (in my bed) because I can't keep my eyes open at 3 am, when I finally fell asleep after finishing my paper at 1:30. I pretty sure it's teething and not the feeding, because she wakes up screaming and pulling at her ear and jaw. Once she wakes up, my 8 year old is automatically up because they share a room. As my daughter gallumphs down the hall to inform me that my baby spawn is awake AGAIN, she usually wakes up either DS or DD2. DS wakes up demanding to sleep in my bed and DD2 only wants the iPad. In short, complete sleep failure.

[carolinamama]

I know you are just venting - and to that I say that I feel your pain!

But what we did with DS1 about a year ago when I got SO exasperated about losing sleep since DS2 was waking up nightly too was to put a sleeping bag down on the floor in our room right next to my side. I explained to him that I needed to get sleep too and it was okay to come into our room at night but he wasn't allowed to wake me up. He could get into his sleeping bag and go back to sleep. It worked. He still wakes occasionally and climbs into our bed but still tries not to wake me when he is doing it.

Oh, and what is it with my kids only waking ME up when they have to walk right by DH's side of the bed to get to mine?!

[jenfromnj]

I know. I have a neighbor, one is is really very nice, who keeps saying I need to let her cry it out. Well, I have ds who sleeps horribly as it is, dh who works 12-14 hour days and has a 2 hour round trip commute, and neighbors with a bedroom just on the other side of the wall (townhouses). And dd doesn't whimper, she SCREAMS. Not to mention that dh cannot tolerate the crying in the middle of the night. So, really, it just is not viable. Stop suggesting it.

Thankfully dd does nap quite well. So I guess I don't have that to complain about this time around. (DS was not a good napper.)

Catherine

I'm sorry you're subjected to those words of wisdom, too! Seriously people, when you start volunteering to take shifts in the middle of the night with DS, you can possibly have some input. Until then, MYOB and keep your helpful thoughts to yourself.