How do you manage the night shift?

My husband works 12 hrs shifts so when he comes home after 6pm around 7pm I go too bed for 4 hours and then I take over the night shift. Takes roughly around an hour to feed my little girl she is nearly 4 weeks old. Then I sleep in between her feeds its only like 1 hr to 1hr 30 mins but it does help.

Hope you find a good balance I know its exhausting but we will get there.

Xxx

Im ebf & doing the feeds & wakeups on my own, it is hard, im trying to have a afternoon nap when my hubby takes our toddler out for a nap. Altho not always possible for me to do if our newborn wont settle.
I dont have a better system but offering solidarity and hoping fir longer stretches of sleep soon hopefully 🫠

My partner works 6 days a week so we usually go to bed together around 10pm, I do the full night shift and let him sleep but I will wake him up around 5/6am depending on how well our little one has slept and he will take her downstairs so I can get an uninterrupted few hours.
Some nights I do find quite hard especially if she wakes up a lot or won't settle as it means I'm getting very little sleep until my partner gets up with her, but those few hours in the morning really set me up for the day and make a huge difference so this tends to work for us.
I am breastfeeding but I pump once a day so he will sometimes give her a bottle rather than waking me up to feed her x

With my first I’d go to bed around 7/8 and get a few hours sleep in while dad contact napped with baby then I’d do the full night shift.

This time we have a 2.5 year old and dad co-sleeps with him so I go to bed around 11pm when baby naturally settles and then I do the whole night shift. If it’s been a particularly rough night I’ll wake dad around 6 for an hours sleep before he leaves for work.

It’s much harder this time as I also can’t nap in the day because I have my toddler at home too and we can’t lay in etc because I have to be up for the toddler. Baby also wakes every hour usually after the first stretch of 2ish hours.

Its tough but these months go do fast. My first was a terrible sleeper until he was 2 so I do think I’m partly immune to the sleep deprivation this time but first time round I was so tired I’d hallucinate and it was really scary x

My little boy is also 4 weeks. I do the night shift alone every night in the spare room, dad sleeps with our 5 year old in our bedroom. He is up and out at 6am for work so I then have to take over with our 5 year old too and get him ready and to school. We all go to bed about 9-10pm, evenings are very busy for us so I don't get the chance to go to bed earlier than the baby for some sleep.
Baby sleeps 3-3.5 hours first stretch, then 2 hours the next usually, after that there's not really any extended periods of sleep until we get up around 7:30am. I usually co sleep (safely) after wake ups after 5:30am just to get some rest before starting the day. It is hard but I nap where I can, and I'm very aware of how fast the newborn stage goes so just trying to enjoy it as much as I can. We also had a rough start with baby unexpectedly admitted to SCBU with suspected bowel blockage and sepsis so I'm just very glad to have him home and doing well. My first son slept worse too so I am grateful for some sleep at least xx