How to get rest...
How do other mums get rest during the day? My hv has been out and told me I have to rest in the daytimes as I'm still rather aneamic following lo birth and I'm literally dead on my feet.... I'm up in the night bf (usually only once) and bf every 2.5 hrs during the day, she will nap but not long enough for me to follow, as soon as I think 'oooh could have a sleep here' she wakes up
My MIL will NOT come and sit with her for me so I could go to bed and have a proper sleep (obviously she would be changed and fed before I went anywhere so she wouldn't have too)
How do others manage?
My MIL will NOT come and sit with her for me so I could go to bed and have a proper sleep (obviously she would be changed and fed before I went anywhere so she wouldn't have too)
How do others manage?
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Hope things get easier for you soon- you're doing a great job.
My hubby is out tonight from work and won't be home till gone 9, so this evening I'll be doing bath & bed alone.... I'll probably follow to my own bed once she is asleep.... I won't get a break with someone else looking after (e.g. him ) till tomorrow night
I really don't know how I cope some days, I'm probably dangerous!!
Luckily he's in a nighttime routine, and I know that by 6.45pm he'll be fast asleep in his cot and if I'm really tired I can be in bed by 7.30pm and get a few hours in before his dream feed.
I'm going to ask the HV about getting him back to his daytime cot napping tomorrow so I will let you know what she suggests.
I can see myself holding a sleeping 3 year old for his afternnon nap at this rate!
Lo is in bed now, I know that if I feed her at 8 and then bath & bed, she won't wake till after midnight for her next feed - usually 1am(ish) which means I can go to bed around 10.30 and get a few hrs before she is up. She then goes from 1-5 which is excellent )
And then she usually wakes as hubby is getting up which is the real arse as it's his alarm that gets her up, she would sleep longer e.g. this morning he crept out of bed (cause I told him at her 5.30 feed if he woke her or me I would remove his eyes with a spoon) and we both slept till 8.20!