Hi, I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers/reassurance. Bit of backstory DS2 was an appalling sleeper, woke every couple of hours til about 7 or 8 months & I'm desperate for the same thing not to happen with DD1 (13weeks).
At the moment we have a bedtime routine, she takes about 4oz from a bottle at 6pm, bath, pjs and is ready for bed at 7.30. She has a final breastfeed and I put her down in her room, in a bedside cot awake. She falls asleep with me lying next to her, we're happy with this.
Then it all goes tits up. She has occasionally slept through til 2am - this is a very good night. More often than not she wakes at 10/11 then 1/2 and anytime afterr that. She is verry restless, she tosses & turns & grunts aand shouts in her sleep, I 'm lying in bed next to the cot and am awake even if she's not.
I've been settling her with a dummy rather than bf her to sleep but she still feeds at least twice a night. I had an idea that I was disturbing her in the night so went to bed in my own bed last night but she still had me up two hours later. She doesn't seem to self settle without the dummy, is there anything I can do about this?
I need your votes - is it me interferring trying to get her to settle, using the dummy, so I can sleep thats the problem (and if so how do I break the habit?
Or do I resign myself to another non- sleeping baby, carry on cosleeping & do whatever gets us through the night?
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cakeandcustard · 02/04/2014 11:42
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