Being woken up in the middle of the night.

[Mermaid02]

I am absolutely NO GOOD in the middle of the night anymore, good thing my newborn days are long behind me. My soon to be 14 year old woke me up last night crying because he had such a bad headache (he gets migraines) I got up with him, gave him something for it, got a bucket for the "inevitable", got him some water and crackers... but I doubt I said 3 words. Can't imagine doing multiple wake up calls for feedins every 2-3 hours again!

 

[cepmom]

I hear ya!! My 10 year old was up 1/2 the night Wednesday night into Thursday morning with ear pain. I was useless all day yesterday! I couldn't imagine having to get up with a newborn again!!

 

[bellebud]

It's funny what we moms get used to. I remember w/ my newborns (especially my first), if I slept 4 hours straight, I felt like SUPERWOMAN! Now if I don't get 8 - 9 hours, I feel like a zombie!

 

[pilotwife_02]

I feel the same way as you and I am about to have another newborn in the house. At least the baby won't expect me to talk to him in the middle of the night...LOL.

 

[Miz Diz]

My kids always wake my husband up if they get up in the middle of the night or too early in the morning. My husband asked them why they never get me up and they said, "Because mommy always says 'Go back to bed.'"

My son was 4 years old before he slept through the night and I was always the one to get up with him. I figure it's dh's turn now.

I am an extremely heavy sleeper, but for some reason, if one of them is throwing up, I can hear it and my bedroom is downstairs. In that case, I will get up.

 

[POOHDRMR]

I had a baby a year ago and it was soooo much harder than with my first who is 9.I just kept telling myself it won't last forever and around 6 months it got better thank god.Last night he was up half the night with a cold and I am so tired today(he is naping and I really should too!)I don't know if it was because I am older or what but even my dh who used to have no problem being up at night couldn't do it-we would fight on the weekends about who would take him at night just so I could get some sleep(I had him all week)but dh was so tired on the weekends and then had work all week.No more babies in my future!!

 

[2binak]

Our DD is 3, but she already knows to go to Daddy's side of the bed in the middle of the night. I'm just so sleepy that I can't even put a sentence together or understand what she's saying.

 

[Stitchfans]

I am turning 54 tomorrow and I am doing the new born feedings. no not mine. My grandson. Oldest DD is living with me because of her husband leaving her for a younger female. (don't want to be mean and call her a little girl but technically she is)

To give DD a break we take turns with the feedings. I am looking for a job so once I find one she is on her own. But of course once she finds a job we are back to our "old ways" of sharing the feedings. Ugh!

So yes, it can be rough, but well worth it. Look at what you get once they are grown. So much love.

 

[JessicaR]

I am absolutely NO GOOD in the middle of the night anymore, good thing my newborn days are long behind me. My soon to be 14 year old woke me up last night crying because he had such a bad headache (he gets migraines) I got up with him, gave him something for it, got a bucket for the "inevitable", got him some water and crackers... but I doubt I said 3 words. Can't imagine doing multiple wake up calls for feedins every 2-3 hours again!

My son and I both had Migraines last night. I thought it was due to the impending snow we ended up getting. Nothing I took helped and I thought we were heading to the ER.

Hope your son is better today!

 

[Mermaid02]

My son and I both had Migraines last night. I thought it was due to the impending snow we ended up getting. Nothing I took helped and I thought we were heading to the ER.

Hope your son is better today!

He said last night that he wondered if it was the storm. I usually get those too- but not last night.

He just woke up, and the headache is gone.

Glad you guys are feeling better too!

 

[njmom47]

Hmmm....I haven't had a migraine in awhile but woke up around 4AM with the worst one I've had in months. You guys have me wondering if it was the weather...
I also have a brand new dgd (3 months) and when dd and dgd came home from the hospital, I did a few middle-of-the-night feedings in the beginning but was exhausted by the end of the day. Thank goodness dgd is sleeping at least 7 hours a night now!

 

[hulagirl87]

it's weird... sometimes the more sleep I get, the more tired I will be during the day. Having had DD almost a year ago, and during my pregnancy, I barely slept through the night at all. She sleeps through the night now, but the first several months I was up with her 3-4 times a night at least. I got used to it so now if I get solid sleep it's weird! I'm an extremely light sleeper, so from the cats jumping on the bed or DH coming to bed later than me (he works late hours), I don't remember the last time I "slept through the night".

 

[JessicaR]

He said last night that he wondered if it was the storm. I usually get those too- but not last night.

He just woke up, and the headache is gone.

Glad you guys are feeling better too!

Thanks. Glad he woke up pain free! It's the pits. I am convinced last night was the weather.

 

[sunnyday123]

I am no good when I'm awakened. One time I was apparently searching frantically in the bed for the baby, and my ex said she was sleeping peacefully in her pack n play next to me. She had fussed a little then went back to sleep, and I was extremely exhausted and apparently very confused.


A few months ago DD said she woke me up because she had a headache, and I told her to take "some of this", threw her a bottle and when she asked, "why?" I said it was because she was Irish. She's not. THANK GOD the bottle I tossed her was Motrin and she had enough sense to not take it because I was so out of it.


There is no way I could handle a newborn now.

 

[Sarah_Rose]

I'm pretty well a zombie right now. My 5 month old is still eating twice in the night (this part I don't mind), I've been sick with a cold for over a month, now, and DS is still having jet lag/night-waking issues from our trip to WDW last week, so he's been waking up very frequently for no reason.

I woke up this morning at 8:30 and thought it was weird that DS was still sleeping. And then I realized that DH was gone and I hadn't heard his alarm clock go off at 6:30. And then I heard one of DS's toys from downstairs. It turns out the alarm had gone off, I hadn't moved or noticed, my DH decided to work from home so I could get more sleep (and because I'm probably a danger to myself and others right now), and then DS had woken up at 8:00 and I hadn't noticed that either. DH and gotten him up, changed his diaper, and played with him for 30 minutes before I heard anything.

So yeah, I have a baby and I'm not handling this getting up in the night very well, either.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I am so happy not to have a newborn in the house! I do, however, have a 15year old who tends to wake me up by staring at me with his face just inches from mine. It kind of freaks me out until I realize it's him! He has Asperger's syndrome and gets anxious when he can't sleep or doesn't feel well and sometimes he just needs his mom. A few weeks ago, he was having intestinal issues all night and felt the need to wake me up everytime he got up to go, which was about every hour. I told him he didn't have to wake me up everytime, but it seemed to make him feel better! Luckily, it was a Saturday night so I didn't have to get up the next morning.

I also have a very needy rabbit (yes, a rabbit!) who sometimes gets me to come downstairs in the middle of the night. The other night, he thumped about 20 times in a row. I figured something must really be freaking him out because he rarely thumps. If he does it too much, he will hurt his feet. So, I ventured downstairs to see what his problem was. When I opened the front of his cage, he came darting out onto my lap. I had to pet him and calm him down before putting him back in. I still don't know why he was so scared. Another of my rabbits could have made a noise or he may have heard something from outside. In any case, he knows how to get me to pet him at 3:00 a.m.!

 

[Saphire]

I am way past the newborn stage, but even so have an eight week old foster son trying to adjust to my home tonight. It may be a long night and a long few weeks. But being older somehow helps. I realize now nothing lasts forever. I know my committment is short term, I know this responsibility will only be for awhile. The transient nature of it makes me be able to get up in the middle of the night for these little ones.

 

[IDoDis]

I am no good when I'm awakened. One time I was apparently searching frantically in the bed for the baby, and my ex said she was sleeping peacefully in her pack n play next to me. She had fussed a little then went back to sleep, and I was extremely exhausted and apparently very confused.A

The same thing used to happen to me when I had a newborn. I used to bring the baby to bed with us and nurse, but then would get up and put the baby back in the crib. I was too afraid of rolling on over on the baby or him falling out of the bed, so I'd always put him back in his crib. I guess I'd wake up thinking I still had him in the bed with us and couldn't find him. I'd frantically be feeling all over the bed in the dark. My DH would wake up and say, "What are you doing?" I'd say in a panic, "Where's the baby??" He'd say in an irritated voice, "He's in his crib!"

That scenario happened several times during those sleep-deprived first few months!

 

[staley7580]

The same thing used to happen to me when I had a newborn. I used to bring the baby to bed with us and nurse, but then would get up and put the baby back in the crib. I was too afraid of rolling on over on the baby or him falling out of the bed, so I'd always put him back in his crib. I guess I'd wake up thinking I still had him in the bed with us and couldn't find him. I'd frantically be feeling all over the bed in the dark. My DH would wake up and say, "What are you doing?" I'd say in a panic, "Where's the baby??" He'd say in an irritated voice, "He's in his crib!"

That scenario happened several times during those sleep-deprived first few months!

I have done it too. After I had my twins, one of them woke up crying... I heard it, and grabbed the first baby I could find to nurse him. Wrong baby! I woke up a perfectly sound sleeping baby by shoving my b00b on his face! I can't do middle of the nights any more either. I'm useless.