Small, as we are all aware, doesn’t really sleep. I was trying to work out what time he passed out last night – it was while panorama was on, does that make it after 10.30? I didn’t go to bed straight away, I was fighting with a website (no, not yours Nic, ebid this time) and upgrading my desktop and what with one thing and another I think it was about 1 that I turned in.
He fed in the night, and then again when it was light. While he was feeding the second time I heard Big get up and go in to dp (still sleeping on the floor in the other room due to bad back, but pressurised into finally going to the doctors this morning). I heard, “I don’t feel well,” and assorted whinings but couldn’t really make sense of the conversation. Once Small had finished feeding, he rolled over to go back to sleep, but he could hear Big’s voice as well, so eventually off he went to find her. I found my glasses (can’t see the clock without them any more 🙁 ) and discovered that it wasn’t even 7.30 yet – which means Small probably got me up about 6.30, after a broken night. Would that explain why I feel very rough? Aargh….still I’ve already got one load of washing on the go, and as soon as the dew is dry I’m gonna get them out in the garden. Maybe I can tire them both out enough to need a nap?
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10 responses to “Insomniac offspring”
Really sympathise with the sleep thing, (or lack of) however 6.30 is lie in for us!!!
HRH still gets up 3-4 times a night, not for anything in particular, he just gets up and
comes into our room to be put back into bed. AARRGGHHH…..
sounds like a very good explanation for feeling rough – for once I can sympathise, having had to get up to take Joe to the toilet at 4am (he only wet the bed a little bit before waking up, so that was good I suppose) but I’m so un-used to it that it’s horrible! Hope your day is peaceful and you manage some naptime.
A billion sympathies on the lack of sleep – it is complete torture – on saturday we had (another) hellish night.
C woke up at midnight a whined for 4 and a half hours, I really could’ve murdered her 🙁
ARGH – Layla, Sarah AND Nigel!!! Poor you – we did play musical beds last night but it was nothing to beat 4 1/2 hours – any of my kids trying that would probably have found themselves tied to a bed 🙁 And as for Jax, you are possibly a complete saint – i try really hard to do the more AP type approach, but Small would have been a formula and a padded cell a very long time ago! You have my full awe!!!
rofl Merry – don’t think I’m a saint at all. Maybe if I did what I do smiling and without screaming at them on a daily basis 😉
argh – lack of sleep. Y’know if any of us really realised just how long the rboken nights were going to last would we have had babies at all? I was prepared for maybe three months of it with Monster – he was about 18 months! and then he has always been an early riser – now he is the other way round, not so keen on getting up but awake till 9pm (bedtime here is 7pm so thats two whole hours of up and down the stairs for us!) Teeny has fits and starts – last night, and the night before she sleep through from 7ish till 6.30ish – long may it continue but bet it doesn’t!! Husg anyway Jax, I can fully sympathise, and you are doing a very fine job!
I’m still up most nights with M, not usually for long, but it was an hour the night before last.
Poor all of you (including me LOL). Well done Jax for even being concious enough
to blog. Little chick just going to sleep now on account of having a 2 hour sleep
between 4.00 and 6.pm. I just haven’t the heart to wake her when she sleeps at
any time – never have been able to. More the fool me I say.
Sorry Nic, but I had to laugh at your ‘two hours of up and down stairs’ comment – I remember a long thread on uk.p.p. about routines etc …. 😉
Sarah, you’re a wuss 😛
Sleep’s overrated anyway ……
Alison I know! I was that woman who’s kids were in bed by seven and scowled at everyone else! but never mind, we can all be naive when all we are basing children on is the contented little baby book! 🙂