Just go to bed and let baby wake you when it needs feeding. Once fed, both you and baby straight back to bed

When my babies were little and I was up feeding, I found TV series to be a life saver. I also used to flick through magazines or read blogs.

I didn’t. Hopefully bubs goes back to sleep for a bit between feeds.

I’m not sure at what point you’re trying to keep awake? Obviously bub wakes you with crying for a feed, but then you are so tired you want to sleep during the feed? and so are asking for ideas to stay awake then because you are bored of phone games? and presumably the baby is taking a long time to feed? (I had the opposite problem in that I wouldn’t get back to sleep after being woken, even when bub was back snoozing again). Professional advice about feeding wouldn’t go amiss. There is so much free help there at the end of a phone line. You don’t say how old the baby is but it sure sounds tough on you at present.

I used to get up at night, feed bubs and put them straight back into their cot. If the kids wanted to sit and play (in the dark) in their cot then I didn’t care, as long as I went back to sleep.
I didn’t have the trouble of them being up all night, so I really don’t think I can help you other than turning on the lights and telling them it’s time to go to bed.
I’d also send hubby into their room once I knew they were fed because they were more likely to go to sleep for him, but they also knew that he didn’t have the ability to feed them like I did.

My youngest is 9 months and still waking at night sometimes a few times. On a good day it’s just once. But boy can sleep deprivation catch up. My thing to get me to wake up when it’s the middle of the night an I’m so tired and just need that sleep is to drink a glass of cold water (and snack on chocolate haha). It works for me to get me through those hard nights.

YouTube/Netflix has been my best friend, I just put in an earbuds and watch funny videos or Mum vlogs, anything that keeps me awake. I also take regular naps during the day.

I used to find a really good Netfix series that had short episodes that I could watch during a night feed/change.

Wanting food? Not a milk feed? I’ve never heard of this. Maybe a later tea with a bottle at bed time will keep them fuller for longer

I didn’t. Sleep when you can, wake and feed then go back to bed.

Watch a show? Best time to catch up on emails etc

I watch Netflix, this is the only time I have to do it..

If you need something on your phone during this time and are bored with general games, try some trivia quizzes and/or try learning a new language – these require more brain power so will help you remain focused and stay awake.

Do you have something like Netflix on your phone that you can watch instead?

I have to walk around otherwise i’ll fall asleep even if playing games on my phone. These times are tough but no real advice as you also want to be able to sleep again once baby does

Making paid surveys were been keeping me up when I was breastfeeding my kids ( sorry a little different way of being up)

How about downloading something like readly or Scribed to read magazines and books?

I flick through TikTok haha. I find that because I have to scroll through videos and they’re so short it helps keep me awake. On nights when I’m exhausted and really worried about staying awake I set a timer to go off after 5 minutes in case I fall asleep to wake me up. I just keep resetting it every 5 minutes till baby is in bed (I wear headphones so baby doesn’t wake up)

Thanx for clarifying tea4tee ! I remember that time to drop asleep whilst feeding baby, so tiring indeed ! I used to go to the computer/tv to watch downloaded tv shows. The tricky thing though is you don’t want to do a too stimulating activity otherwise you can’t fall back asleep again.

You need to sleep when baby is asleep. Have a baby monitor in baby’s bedroom – let that wake you up.