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Pleaaasssssssssssse help..! OR ds is being put on ebay...

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SHHHHsantaiscoming · 16/12/2007 15:01

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Actually I need the smiley for "SHATTERED"

Ds is 10 months old and is a nightmare. Dispite verything he went through when he was very ill at birth etc he seems more unsettled now. Not sure why or what it is..maybe teeth..?

He seems to be a very clingy boy who wants attention 24/7..fine BUT its the nights im struggeling with.

He seems to wake every hour for his dummy which is a killer, and the last few days he wakes at around 2/3am. Not a problem if he chatted to himself but he doesn't. He screams/shouts for dh & I's attention and cries.
The last resort is a bottle BUT we are concerned that this may soon become "routine" for him.

He is still in our room BUT we now have a blackout blind for his rooom so intend to move him this week.
Im just worried that he will continue like this once in his room when getting up just to put a dummy in will be even more of a killer from another room..

We have about 50 billion dummies in his cot and he can put them in himself BUT seem's to forget this at night .

Any advise as to why he's waking and what to do..?
This has been the case now for around 6 weeks and along with dh being on call for work alot its killing me....

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jinglebug · 16/12/2007 15:23

I sympathise.
DS2 is almost 16mths and has never slept through!
He has several dummies in his bed, but recently he has been waking up and wandering in to our bed. I don't notice he's even joined us sometimes

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SHHHHsantaiscoming · 16/12/2007 15:26

thing is atm it would be a blessing if he got into our bed and slept BUT he doesn't seem to want to do that...

DD is and always has been a brill sleeper..yeah she has her moments but 99% of the time she is brill. Maybe this is payback .....

I feel like I have aged 20 years since having ds. .

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ImBarryScott · 16/12/2007 15:27

You might not fancy this approach, but when my 6mo DD starting waking up loads when her dummy fell out, we binned them.

We had one day of crying in the night, three days of crying at bedtime, at then she forgot she ever had one, and slept through reliably since then (barring the usual illnesses).

It was very, very hard to listen to her cry, but I can honestly say it was worth it, and I don;t regret it. DD doesn't seem scarred by the experience, and if anything is happier by day for not having disturbed nights.

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SHHHHsantaiscoming · 16/12/2007 15:29

see I don't even think its him loosing his dummy that wakes him as even when we give him his dummy back there are quite a few times when he spits it out and starts chatting or crying again....

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ImBarryScott · 16/12/2007 15:33

in that case, i don't know....
but i'll start the ebay bidding at 99p

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SHHHHsantaiscoming · 16/12/2007 15:46

lol barryscott.!!!!! Could you imagine .

To the lucky bidder,a gorgeous yet noisy ds. Ideal for those that need an early wake up call .!

Also ideal for those of you that need to look older..forget botox and looking young..OLD is the new black. .!!!

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HelloMama · 16/12/2007 15:49

This could have been me posting 2 years ago with our DS. I'm afraid we binned the dummy too and it did help. I think once he realised he wasn't going to get attention of us getting up and out of bed, faffing for the dummy, swearing alot as we grovelled on the floor etc, it wasn't worth waking up. He did still fuss for a few nights but it definitely improved things. I don't think it was the dummy (or lack of) per se that woke him up, it was the attention (albeit negative attention) that went with it.

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SHHHHsantaiscoming · 16/12/2007 16:06

hmmm,think I agree mnamma. I think its the attention as well.

Also as he was very ill from birth and in hospital alot he had either dh or I 24/7. Can't win can we as parents..!