It would be easier waking the dead

My twins are 2 weeks old and one of them still breasfeeds every 2.5 hours. Which means a very sleepless night. DH doesnt wake up, even if I have one twin on the breast and the other waking up and then one needs burbing, a nappy change a feed and then all over again. I tried to wake him but he just opens up one eye and goes back to sleep and swears I never woke him or he never heard the babies!!!!
I am sooooo frustrated with him that I can scream. Is my dh the only one that can sleep through this??? :angry:

 

Mine could but I never let him. Sometimes it was hard because he is grumpy when he gets woken up but he told me he would help me during the night and so I made him keep his promise. Once they started sleeping through, around 4.5 months, I would get up and do the first a.m. bottle by myself. But up until that point, I can count on one hand how many nights I did it by myself.

 

My DH was the same way. He always used to tell me to wake him up, but it was such a battle, it wasn't worth it. It was more work to wake him up than to just do it myself.

 

I suggest kicking him harder (just kidding), if u need him then just keep shouting/shaking until he wakes up, he will eventually. He's obviously not going to do it on his own, so you're going to have to help him for a while. Funny how mothers "always" hear the babies!!

good luck to you, it will get better!!


amanda

 

In the hospital I literally punched him on the shoulder to wake him up. Now I pinch his nose to wake him and he has gotten better at getting up when I need him to.

 

That's what DH's are for! LOL

Mine was very hard to wake up, but he did help out a lot once I finally got him awake.

 

I have the same problem..Last night I was feeding one and the other woke up screaming..I tired to wake him, but it didnt work..So I feed both babies,burped both and got them to go back to sleep just to have to do it again in 2-1/2 hours..Then when I say how tired I am he just says well next time wake me....UURRRGGHHH!!!!!!

 

We have the opposite problem here. My DH always wakes up to them and I *never* hear them. :blush: Even when they were in a crib right next to me I didn't hear them very often. DH gets very frustrated with me because I am a very heavy sleeper and he has trouble getting me to wake up. :blush: But in my defense the girls have very soft cries.
We are doing a little better now. He doesn't have as hard a time waking me up now. We do every other waking. But the girls are sleeping until 5:30 or 6 in the morning too. So, I've pretty much had a full nights sleep by then.

 

I had the same problem with DH. Either he would fall asleep during feedings and fall asleep while feeding a baby or he would need to go to the bathroom or need time to wake up to feed a baby. Uh no. He wouldn't wake up with lights on and babies crying while I warmed up bottles! I finally gave him the job of watching the baby for spit up while I feed or changed the other baby. All I can say is look down the road where they can go with out feeding for 6-8 hours. I really liked the ideas of pinching the nose or kicking harder. :rotflmbo: Maybe one of those would work! :lol: Good luck