I will say though, after a whole sleepless night because he wouldn’t settle with the go-egg night light/thermometer on we are having to sleep with a side lamp on in the bedroom every night so it’s not dark.
Ever since doing that he’s just waking up every 3 hours for a feed and then going back to sleep. If it’s dark then just can’t settle…. I plan on gradually making the room darker to see if he gets used to it. Using a less wattage bulb for a week, then just keeping going til it’s almost dark. May take weeks but it’ll save our electric! 🤣
Try a Phillips hue bulb. You can dim them pretty well.
Morning all,
Just wanted to a general consensus…. So baby is doing everything it should however 17 days after birth after a feed or at other times I can hear alot of mucus that sounds like it’s in his throat.
He does breathe normally and can sleep quietly but if he tucks his neck to squash it again comes back the rattling mucus sounds!
Partner says it’s normal for babies to have mucus as they can’t clear it themselves but he seems to still have alot. Even the midwife hasn’t suggested it’s an issue but not sure how closely they looked as doesn’t tend to happen during the day.
Any thoughts? I’m not concerned really as he’s doing everything he should but is it normal? This morning he was laid in his crib all happy and then he must’ve shifted some mucus that made him sound rattly again and was instantly crying clearly from discomfort.
Be keen to know if many others experienced the same?
Well he’s 4 weeks old today!
Learning that you don’t wake a baby up to feed it, that at least double the time you think you’ll need 🤣
Also struggling to see how people in the breadline as such afford to maintain a baby! Breast feeding and the costs of the tools you need, the bottles, steriliser, just everything….
Also to single Mums I have absolutely no ideas how they do it as the two of us are still looking forward to recouping sleep and can’t imagine doing it alone!
I’ve also learnt that the tiredness makes me look illiterate after reading that above update back! I’ll blame predictive text though
Sleep deprivation is hard! I've become clumsy and forgetful and no matter how many times I need to wake up in the middle of the night, it never gets any easier.
still looking forward to recouping sleep
Ha ha ha ha. Maybe when they leave home.
It seems he’s started to dribble out part of what he eats too at any time now and get more fussy at night so we had a horrible night last night.
Nothing planned and we will be doing nothing, hoping to go watch Cyclocross tomorrow morning but if tonight is like last night that won’t happen! Fingers crossed!!
Just a wee thought - if you can arrange space for one of you to get a proper nights sleep it’s totally worthwhile. I basically decamped to the spare room when both of ours were tiny so I could sleep better. It meant I had a lot more in the tank to keep the house running during the day, as well as becoming the designated driver.
Obviously everyone’s situation will be different so I can see how this might not work for everyone.
the two of us are still looking forward to recouping sleep
I'm still saying this 18 months in. We both just stagger around like zombies all day. He basically wakes up screaming at 5:30 every day.
We've been sleeping in separate rooms almost the whole time. He wants nothing to do with me during the night so luckily I get to avoid him and hopefully be functional during the day.
