Ok I'm blatantly posting here for traffic. I do frequent the sleep section but it's mostly people struggling with sleep.
My ds2 is 8 months. He was a very clingy baby at first you could say. He had reflux, he wouldn't go to anyone but me and dad. He could really fight his sleep day and night, only sleep on me, couldn't put him down even for a minute.
He loads better now, his reflux has improved, I can generally just pop him in his cot for daytime naps, he mostly goes to bed quite happily at around 8pm by himself. He eats well, he's crawling and standing and plays happily. He self settles in his cot all other times.
Problem is night waking. He no longer has night feeds, I know people have different ideas about this but he hasn't had night feeds now since 6 months and I'm confident he's not waking for hunger.
He wakes up anytime after midnight and will only go back to sleep in our bed. We've tried everything. We've tried cc but he just gets more and more upset, believe me I've done it all with my first, ds2 just becomes inconsolable. Tried holding his hand through the cot lying him down, sometimes it works, sometimes he just keeps getting up again. He has a dummy which he can put back in by himself so he's not waking for that. Tried giving him a drink.
We've tried being determined and having him stay in his cot, it only resulted in everyone being awake for 2 hours, even when ds eventually goes back to sleep he will wake up again half an hour later.
It's not a huge problem for us, occasionally he does sleep through, sometimes he sleeps through until 3-4am, the situation has improve a lot from us being up every hour a couple of months ago. Most nights he wakes, I don't rush straight to him I leave him a few minutes to resettle himself, then I try lying him back down, if after 10 minutes or so he's becoming more awake we tend to just lift him into our bed so that we can all go back to sleep. I find I have to coddle him to keep him still or he just wants to play.
It would just be nice if we could get him to stay in his cot for the night.
Any ideas? Or would you just carry on as we are?
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Aibu to think that there's no point in doing sleep training with my baby?
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Pyjamaramadrama · 02/03/2016 10:36
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