Especially doubled up with two in a row...counting no chickens here though, but does feel like a break through.
What position? I was a server for a number of years. As a rule restaurant managers are assholes and will do anything they can get away with. I worked 13 hour shifts with no break before. You might be in luck though. Do you know how long your shift would be? Most shifts were in the 4-5 hour range for me not counting doubles and if you get a split shift you usually can go home between shifts. Considering you are part time you may only have 4 hour shifts which would work out for you.
Congrats to the new parents
We had our first full nights sleep from both twins....after 17 months. lol.
What helped my wife was to eat constant small bits of food. She went through about 1,000 granola bars.
Don't try to have a DIY at home shabu shabu meal using cheap cuts of meat and leftover frozen vegetables. Trust me.
Lol this applies to a lot more than just pregnant women with morning sickness.
Indeed. I ended up with "morning sickness" too after eating that. Whoops.
Fuck. Shabu shabu was the only thing that affected me. It gave me food poisoning so bad I lost 2 kgs, vomited non-stop for 7 hours. I was about 4-5 weeks along. After that I was nauseous for a few days, lived on plain crackers and water, but was fine after. Tl;dr, Haven't had shabu shabu since 2014, and don't intend on eating it again. lol
Sounds like a growth spurt! Pete has been improving steadily. He's almost 14 weeks now and is sleeping between 4 and 7 hours straight. On a good night he'll sleep til 2, eat, and then sleep til 5 and eat again.
Sleep is pretty variable at the moment. He slept 6 straight last night but he was up every hour the night before. Gabe, the 5 year old has started waking up in the middle of the night and asking me to sleep in his bed. The cat who stays on the other floor has started being super loud at night so my wife is back in our bed because a baby who is up every few hours is better than a cat who meows all night.
We're thinking Nick might be going through one. He's eating even more than usual and very aggressively if that makes sense.
I heard breast fed babies sleep better since they get melatonin in the breast milk. Also don't forget the kid's got to sleep eventually. Is it possible for you to nap when she naps during the day? A nice nap can make all the difference in the world.
We start Pete's bedtime routine at 7:30 and with any lucky he's out in his bed at 8:00. It works pretty well for us because we can get some downtime before we go to bed and if he has some trouble staying asleep right away I'm usually just on my computer or something in the next room and not trying to sleep myself so its a quick hop in and out.
I'd never get any basic chores or work done that way, either. Oh well.Eh I'll take it. Even when he's sleeping I still wake up a lot out of habit. The screaming ones are the worst though so I feel your pain. At least when he just wakes up for some food and cuddles it's peaceful. Those nights where I have to bounce, sing, rock, walk and anything else I can think of and nothing works really take it out of my mentally and emotionally.I imagine it must be extra painful to get those 5+ hour stretches then have them revert to getting up every hour. My sympathies for your loss. ^_^
Mia might be doing a growth spurt/developmental thing this week too. She's been extra talkative and has been doing barrel rolls these past two days. It's not like I think it'll last forever, but I feel like roadkill right now, so hard to see past the shitty night before (another every hour night last night + some screaming for good measure).
For the breastfeeding thing, do you mean they get better sleep and therefore sleep shorter periods like Mia, because otherwise it certainly doesn't seem to be the case (with her anyway). And nap-wise, I just can't. I've never been able to just nod off, even at night. My family keeps repeating that at me too and I just want to throttle them.
I'll cry for you too, Red.
The screaming/crying is disconcerting, though. Mia has never required much (or any, really) effort at night to go back down after night feedings, and the whole open-eyed thing is new too. That I may soon be required to work to get her to sleep while I'm already fried to hell fill me with dread.Haha. I'm sure I'll be able to relate.
If it works it works.
Powerful is a word. At least you don't have any balls for her to kick.-_- Yeah, well, mine is powerful. She punches herself in the face, POWERFULLY.
It's definitely a take what you can get with babies, it seems.
The laughing and gooing is super cute when they start. How old is Nick now? Heck, how old is everyone's midget at this point...?
And, no worries about the nap thing. It's logical to suggest, but my family is just being a pain in the ass about it. I keep getting comments like, "Well, if you'd just nap this wouldn't be a problem," or "You're feeding her too often. You should nap instead." Aaargh.
So I'm going to give a recommendation for one of these:
My son is 6. He's never been a "bike" kid, and frankly I had given up trying to teach him. He prefers his scooter.
There's a little boy who is about 3 or 4 that lives like 2 houses down from us that Alex loves playing with. I usually let him go off and do his thing while I take care of the 4 month old. Apparently this boy has one of these and Alex tried it out. We're not sure since we haven't seen him do that.
On monday however, my dad handed Alex a bike without training wheels and it was like he was always doing it. He was so reliant on training wheels, and had such little interest in his bike that I just thought I would wait until he wanted to do it. Evidently we don't have to now.
So yeah, these things work.
If you want to share in the misery check out my numbers. They have improved significantly since he was born though.
To be fair it's not all Petes fault. I've always been a bit of an insomniac so being able to function on disjointed sleep was a useful skill to already have when the baby came.
That's awesome!
