Sleepless nights…

A baby boy that doesn’t sleep through the night, why?!

The honest answer is I have no idea.


Is it a boy thing? As a mum of 3, I’ve had a boy-girl-boy and both of my boys didn’t sleep through the night for a long time, I don’t think Frankie managed this until he was 5!

I don’t really remember so much of those details with Frankie, it was a bit of a whirlwind.

But Bill is now 9 months old and has slept through the night maybe 3 or 4 times. I know that he can do it and sleep for long periods, he just doesn’t. There are some nights (like tonight!) where he just wakes up every hour or every 2 hours, it’s an absolute killer, so knackering. Sleep deprivation is the worst and I remember this being the hardest thing to deal with, with the first two. I moved him into his own room last weekend, in the hope that we wouldn’t be waking each other up every time we moved the duvet cover, or louis was snoring loudly! Also for me not to wake up at every little sound, where he is just moving around or makes little noises. This week there has been nights where it’s been better and he has only got up once or twice and he has slept till 8am one morning and this morning actually slept until 8:30am which is a miracle in our house!

My eldest Frankie is always up early, even if he has a late night he will still get up at the same time the next day. So now that they all have their own room I think they will sleep much better and Poppy should definitely sleep for longer in the mornings..the only problem with this is getting up late and being late for school! Which is what happened today, eek!


What does he wake up for in the night?!

Sometimes I think he just wants a cuddle and to fall asleep in your arms as he doesn’t really have too much milk.

Sometimes he can go through 4/5 bottles in a night and has done up to 20 ounces of milk in one night! There are times though where he will just have an ounce or two of milk and fall asleep. So I feel like he is just grazing and unsettled and therefore I should not offer the milk at night time, but this is so hard if he cries and wants milk its impossible not to give it to him.

Some nights it’s teething, temperatures or huge poo’s that go through all his clothes, so will need a full change. Like tonight, this is the third time he has been up 12pm, 2 & 3am he was hot and had red cheeks, so I had to bring him down to the living room to give him medicine, which always means he will end up being awake for a while (hence me writing this at 3:30am in the morning) as he refuses to take it and holds his lips together as tight as possible (sometimes he just takes it no problem) so he ends up being wide awake and wanting to play/crawl/walk around for a bit.

I find it’s easier to just let him play for half an hour and get tired before I try and start to give him a bottle and re-settle him. Whereas his dad has the super  daddy cuddle and Bill will fall asleep on him no problem, within seconds sometimes!

Teething is another blip that messes up any sort of routine you have, I am much more laid back with Bill’s routine, I just think he will get there in the end, he is only little (third child-love affair they say!) But then of course if you want a full nights sleep you need to have some sort of routine in the day, so this is what I am working on. Fingers crossed!

Even though this is baby number 3, I don’t have the answers, I just know that it’s quite nice to hear that you are not the only one going through something, you are not alone!


So bring on the Coffee/tea (and Calpol if needed) to get us through these tricky nights of no sleep!

Tune in for more 3 am ramblings if you fancy! 😉 We are going away next week to Portugal so I will try and document a few things on here about travelling with a baby and as a family of 5.

Now the realisation hits of, what am I doing?! Am I mad?! Wish me luck.

Thanks for looking xx

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