I'm not really after advice as such, I just want to know if anyone else has had a baby like this?
Ds2 is 11.5 months. He's was never a naturally good sleeper, he'd never just passively fall asleep, he'd get overtired and stay awake for hours.
He is MUCH better now and I think, I hope we are through the worst. I mean he's got a bedtime routine, he has a long nap in the day when in his cot, and he sleeps through 50% of the time, the other nights he cosleeps half the night and sometimes we do get kept up. No night feeds now or anything so we are lucky compared to some.
But my gosh that boy can stay awake when he wants to. If we go out anywhere for the day he will not sleep in the pram, I can walk him round for miles and he will be tired but wide awake. He has to have a blanket draped over the pram for any hope of going to sleep and he might nod off briefly but it would take an hour of walking him in the pram.
He's such a light sleeper too, the slightest noise and he wakes up. We totally carry on as normal and don't tiptoe around but he never gets used to it. He wakes up every night when we go to bed.
Regarding the cosleeping people just say oh do cc or don't give in. Not ds, if he does wake up in the night he won't go back to sleep, he gets himself into too much of a state.
I miss the days with my ds1, I could just sit him in his bouncer and he'd nod off, he'd sleep anywhere, he'd sleep in in the mornings. He slept through the night and even if he did get up a quick cuddle and he'd go back to bed.
I'm used to ds2 now but I se all these babies sleeping in their buggies bad I feel a bit jealous.
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Has anyone had a baby like this?
Ivegotyourgoat · 29/05/2016 20:58
My two were crap sleepers. If they weren't in bed having their bedtime routine adhered to like glue we were up for hours after with grumpy kids.
We didn't have babies who would fall asleep in a pushchair on a whim at family parties etc.
DS particularly hated sleep and preferred to co-sleep wearing a gro-bag with a boob in his face. 
My super light sleeper quite suddenly started sleeping more deeply at about 14 months.
The exact nature of his crap sleep was mostly different to yours (he would fall asleep in sling/buggy but wake up the instant we came through the door; woke every hour of every night). But he was an extremely light sleeper and a baby who actively tried not to sleep - like he didn't want to miss out on anything.
He started sleeping more deeply at 14 months, which was amazing because I got my evenings back. And he started actively embracing sleep times at some point before he turned two. He is now four and a wonderful sleeper - but I still feel weirdly retrospectively jealous of parents with conveniently-sleeping babies. 
Yes DS won't sleep anywhere but his cot and in the car if in good traffic on the motorway 
I'm very pleased we got him in his cot though as for the first 4 months he was a total cot refuser. I adored co-sleeping but at 4 months he started moving around and we moved to formula so were getting up in the night anyway, so one night we moved from co-sleeping to own room, own cot and it was ace.
Anyway sorry, I digress. We use an untuned analogue radio for white noise, which seems illogical given he's such a light sleeper, but it helps even out any noise we make downstairs and he sleeps really well.
He will go and go and go until we take him upstairs for a nap, he won't sleep anywhere else. But he takes really chunky naps and sleeps well at night so I'm happy :)
He was 1 last week and seems to be going longer before his morning nap so might be moving to one nap now - don't know if that will be better or worse!!
Wow goat, 11-2 is a long nap!! I could get on board with that routine, haven't eaten lunch in peace for months!
Yes Zaurak DS was the same, thinking about it! Could hold his head up straight away after birth. So alert. Aw, I just view it as enthusiasm for life!
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