Our 3.5 wo son barely sleeps. He never has done much - fights it like hell - but it's getting worse. He has never fallen asleep by himself - has to be held or in the sling in the day and bf to sleep at night. He will sleep for 2-4 hours on one of us but wakes almost immediately if you try and put him down. At night he had been getting perhaps two blocks of 2.5 hours in the Moses from midnight but the past few days this had got worse until the most he goes is 1.5 and then fusses the rest of the night, perhaps having the odd half an hour if I pat and shush for ages. He'll fall asleep after feeding and then I wait until he seems deeply asleep before transferring him but so quickly he wakes. he had been getting 8-10 hours of sleep per 24 hours but that's gone down further. Invariably somewhere between 5 and 6am I give in and put him in my chest whilst propped up in bed. He'll sleep for about three hours like this which is really the only sleep I'm getting. However, I've read that I shouldn't be doing this so I'm panicking now as that's the only saviour. In the day he often sleeps once from 3pm ish on me whilst I watch TV or read. He hates the pram and screams until I get him out to carry him so that doesn't help.
How can I teach him to stay asleep in the Moses at night before I lose it? In the day he will go 2.5-3 hours between feeds.
Oh and he's a generally grumpy thing with episodes of colicky crying so hard work when not asleep and why we tend to allow whatever sleep he will do.
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chameleon3241 · 02/07/2013 07:00
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