DS is our third, and I seem to be breeding successively worse sleepers.
DD1 I did everything 'right', but by 11 months she was often spending up to 3 hours of every night awake and screaming, whatever we did. At which point I broke and sleep trained her. She slept through, but was an early riser for a good few months further.
DD2 woke every 2 hours until 18 months, but settled easily after a feed ,finally sleeping through at 2.
DS is awful. He goes to bed awake after a feed and happily goes to sleep, but through the night is up and down like a yo yo and only a feed will calm him back to sleep. We co-sleep after the first couple of wakes. I think last night he was awake about a dozen times between 11 and 7.
He's 7 months and I have no expectation of him sleeping through. But if I could just be up a couple of times it would make such a difference to our quality of life all round. This morning I realised that, after parking the car, I had sat staring into space for a full 10 minutes.
Does anyone have any suggestions? It obviously isn't hunger and he eats and drinks well in the day, so I don't think any form of 'tanking him up' will help.
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PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 05/12/2014 13:59
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