DS is 8mo. Sleeps poor to average (3x30min naps in day, minimum 3/4 wakings at night, mostly more, but can go to sleep on own at bedtime after some fussing and when stars are correctly aligned and usually sleeps until around 7/7.30). Have always tried to tell myself that he will get there in his own time, so just need to cope with it until he does. Have tried a few things to encourage better sleep but don't know have the will power/patience/energy for sleep training in any meaningful form.
But am (obviously, why else would I be on this topic?) so tired. Would murder own grandma for a lie in, but the thing that upsets me most is that sometimes he will have a two/three day period where it looks like things are getting better. A long lunchtime nap, for example, and I begin to dream of daytime sleep to catch up. Self settling at night, or only waking twice and allowing me a four hour stretch of sleep.
Then he's back to square one and it feels like things will NEVER get better. Why does he toy with me like this?! Why can't it be an arc of continuous sleep progress; why this stop/start torture? I look ahead to years of teething/nightmares/bed wetting/etc and feel like crying.
Just that, really. After a bit of reassurance, I guess, that one day I will have more than three hours sleep in a row for more than one night, but otherwise just needing to vent before I make my stupid decaf tea (caffeine seems to make him sicky) and comfort eat loaves of toast and jam.
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blossombath · 01/11/2012 08:42
Thanks for biscuits Elphaba, sugar is my friend at the moment. Have a comradeship tea back 
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ExhausTed I keep clinging to knowledge that it must end eventually (though I would still ask my (working late) dad for a milky drink and chat during insomnia nights right into my teens...perhaps this is karma).
Since he was born I have psyched myself up to expect broken nights at least until he was well established on solids but its surprising how much sleep deprivation and the constant search for solutions (even if I tell myself just to go with flow) can take its toll.
Cydonia I used to think I could never do CC because I couldn't bear to hear him cry. I still think I never would (because I hate the idea of him crying to sleep or all those stress hormones) but there are times now where I sort of want to cc him, for example when I've put him down for the millionth time and flips himself over and wakes up again, arching and crying to be picked up. Or when he wakes me up mid sleep cycle and/or very early in the morning and my limbs feel so heavy I just can't face getting out of bed. But then I imagine him feeling abandoned, force self to carry on and know I couldn't really commit to CC. And I think you have to commit to make it work. (sorry waffly).
Guess all I can do is keep on this regime of tea, biscuits and hope!
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