Living off of coffee...

Anyone else? I dont think i have ever been so sleep deprived.. I drink like 4 cups of coffee in the morning before the babies wake up from their 7am feeding.. If i didnt i dont know i could make it until 10am!!!
My Fussy babies are keeping me up at all hours of the nite.. I love the help from DH, but i make him go back to sleep.. He has to work.. He only gets about 5 hours of sleep as it is.. I wish someone would come and stay one nite and take care of these babies...!!!

 

Amen sister!! Yes sorry to say at 6 months we are in the same boat (some nights) but it is much better than it was... hang in there. But my coffee is really what keeps me going some days! LOL DH helps sometimes but I send him back to bed too. Last night Ashley apparently thought it was play time at 3am ... I broke down and finally put her in bed w/ us and let her play away with her toes while I slept... dont really know what that was about but it was nicer to hear her playing than screaming like in the early days!! Anyway I keep telling myself "someday... someday they will sleep"... and yes you will miss the middle of the night feeding sessions I promise.. so enjoy it now!!

 

Agh...I remember those days well. I dreaded nighttime because I watched DH go off to bed and knew I'd have a sleepless night ahead of me after an exhausting day. Hang in there...it gets better! :hug99:

 

I agree with Briana, its been 6 mo and I am still living off of 3 cups of coffee!

 

my vice is Diet Coke... I have one about 5 minutes after I roll out of bed....
then I breastfeed the babies.... shhhh
I do try and guzzle down lots of water between the three cans I drink everyday...

 

6 months here too, and still having problems. Teething. If they would just come in! It is making them miserable, even with tylnol. DH and I both work so we take turns every time they cry. Yeah, they have got to stop this soon or I will get cafeine poisining.

 

ditto!

 

Do I have the personal best of 9 months-LOL!?? I even have a ritual called "3 0'clock coffee" in my house. I gotta have caffeine STILL.

Rachel

 

Gotta love caffeine!

 

:hug99: Big big hugs to you. Those early weeks are just a killer. Being on-call 24/7 can suck the life out of you. I promise it will get better, though! Would you believe there are actually days where I skip my afternoon coffee?

My personal theory is that caffeine is necessary to survival of the species. Without it, nobody would survive the first weeks of parenthood. Especially twin moms!

 

The very first thing I did when I decided that breast feeding just wasn't working out for us (around 3 weeks old), was drink a big cup of coffee. I've always been a coffee drinker but man oh man, was I happy to finally drink coffee again and it really helped me to get through the days (still does). One of my dds didn't start sleeping through the night consistently until 14 months so I was really really dependent on it. I still have like 2 cups in the am and one in the afternoon.

 

Coffee should be given in an IV line for moms of twins I say! I hear you Ashley, when hubby heads off to bed I feel like I am heading off to work! He wants to help but I cant make him stay up when he has such a crazy day ahead of him. I think my twins nurse more at night then the day!

 

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:hug99: Big big hugs to you. Those early weeks are just a killer. Being on-call 24/7 can suck the life out of you. I promise it will get better, though! Would you believe there are actually days where I skip my afternoon coffee?

My personal theory is that caffeine is necessary to survival of the species. Without it, nobody would survive the first weeks of parenthood. Especially twin moms!

Exactly!! :hug99: :hug99: :hug99: Take lots of pics because you're not going to remember much of this time. Do what you have to do to get through it!!!!

 

Mine are 8 months and I've been drinking a lot of black tea.

It DOES get better! In the beginning, you're like 'hey, if I could just get 4-5 hours of sleep, I'd be good'. Then you get the four hours and it's great and all, until you realize 8 months down the road that you can't live for 8+ months on 4-5 hours/night of interrupted sleep.

It's a really good thing I'm bf'ing 'cause if I weren't, I'd be all over DH to help out with nighttime feedings, even though he works. Of course, as a SAHM, I should be doing most/all of the nighttime feedings during the week, but the sleep-deprived, recently awakened brain is not logical and does not care if husband needs to be coherent at work the next day. In my groggy 3 a.m. state, I've begged my husband to just TRY and latch the baby on and see if she'll fall back asleep. But he refuses. COME ON, TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM, WILL YA HUSBAND????

 

:hug99: Those first few months are so hard with the lack of sleep. for us 7 months what the magical month, did CIO and our babies were sleeping thru the night with in two days and they just fell into a great schedual. I know if seem like forever away but even when your very over tired just remember how fast this first year goes by ( we only have about 2weeks left of our first year) So soak up every minute! If you have family that can help ask them to come by for a few hour during the day and let you shower and nap. that way you are home if they need you but you can rest. sometimes my mother and my mil would come at the same time. It made me feel better that it was two on two. Good Luck Your can do it. We are amazing creatures!!!!

 

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In my groggy 3 a.m. state, I've begged my husband to just TRY and latch the baby on and see if she'll fall back asleep.

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Just for a little reminder...
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Sugar free red bull, anyone???? My husband and I have one when he gets home from work. I swear I look forward to it all day long!!

I am definitly a coffee drinker but sometime around noon I decide that the babies, even though they are only 3.5months old, are probably sick of smelling my coffee breath .

I also have to admit that I let my husband do all he wants at night, oppss! Actually, he does the first shift and I do the second. A while ago he had a rough night and I insisted on doing both shifts the next night. After that morning he said that he woke up with a headache and missed his time with the kids. He says that he really enjoys the middle of the night feedings and I say more power to him!!!

Amy