I give calpol if cuddling fails and I suspect teething 'just in case' probably once a fortnight. I think mine was having nightmares last night.

I don't bf at night, but still tuck her up next to me if I can't settle her. I find getting out of bed is the worst thing. When she was smaller I got a bedside cot and it was the best thing I have ever brought. Don't know how I would have coped without it.

So pleased I'm not the only one. My 18mo DS used to sleep ok but now shrieks and cries out so loud and hysterically you think he's being tortured :-(
Coming out of a deep sleep in full adrenaline mode is not nice.

I envy those of you who are still bf and can just tuck them up next to you in bed

Is it wrong to give him ibruprofen/calpol 'just in case'?

elvislives, I have nights like that all the time. DD is two on Sat and will sleep from 8 to 5 about 4 nights a week. She didn't sleep through until 18 months. People at work have started commenting on me always being tired Today I did luck out because dispite her waking at 2 last night and every hour after that I did manage to have an afternoon nap with her, I think I was probably asleep before her, having got to the point where I could no longer keep my eyes open.
I feel excellent, but won't be able to get to sleep until late, so be really tired tomorrow..

I met someone through the netmums meet up thing when she was a few months old, she told me how she had loved pregancy had an amazing home birth and how her baby slept from 6 weeks. We didn't meet again..

My DD first slept through the night at 3yrs9ms...yes after nearly 4yrs.
DS is 7wks and already likes to fight sleep. He got up at 7am and then finally dropped off at 3pm! In that time he fought sleep in the car and when out for a walk in the buggy. Ho hum!

Deep joy! Waking number 1 is in progress, see he used to stir and settle himself again at 9pm, last night and tonight - melt down. It took 45 minutes, ibuprofen (for the teething) and a feed to settle him last night - DH is in there now with the teething gel and his own thumb (DS has rubbish hands that blatently ignore any communication from his brain and so cannot suck his own thumb, only one of ours .

My DD is 2.7. Last night she slept for about 12 hours. (first time this week, and very unusual). I woke up at 11.30, 2ish, 3ish and 4ish, and got bashed awake just after 6 by a jolly and wide-awake DD. It is the only day of the week I don't have to leave early for work

I just wanted to cry and hide under the covers.

I'm with you claireyb. Had my babies years before my peers so therefore MY sleep deprivation (3+yrs before sleeping through, both times) met with a lack of interest and understanding and of course there was a severe lack of whining social networking platforms such as facebook. I had to moan to faceless strangers . On DIAL UP.

Issues? Oh yes. I've had to hide the worst culprits.

A full night's sleep.

I've forgotten what it feels like.

I plonked myself on the sofa with DS who wanted to watch Thomas the Tank Engine, and I fantasised about tipping just a few inches into the soft cushions and going to sleeeeeeeeep. DS noticed my eyes were starting to close and kept tugging my hair and saying 'NAH'...!

You know those facial exercises you can do when you can't afford a facelift to stay looking young? Do you think yawning is one of them? If so I should look about 12...

Oh I wish!!

Thinking of all the midnight oil burners and our nocturnal offspring tonight...

Fortunately I don't know any smug lucky mummies with mythical sleeping babies, so the mums I know in RL join in sympathetic early morning facebook messaging regarding our little buggers darlings.

My DS is 5 months and his sleep is getting worse, not better . I am seriously more tired now than when he was newborn, after a c-section. He has gone from sleeping 7pm to 7am with perhaps 2 - 3 wakings, nicely spaced to 4 or more wakings only 2 or 1 hours apart .
It seems to be down to teething, although of course no sign of the teeth so we could be in for a long spell of rubbish sleep. I'm praying it improves before I go back to work in January.

Have not read whole thread.

Ds1 didn't sleep through for ages (still wakes up now ocassionally)

Ds2 seems to be of same ilk.

And I don't care. But I am a bit grumpy!