Mine's a nightmare sleeper and has been since birth. DH and I are both broken through never getting a full night of sleep.
We've intentionally never left DS to cry as I couldn't feel comfortable with it but am seriously considering doing so soon.
My friend is a fully signed up attachment parenting advocate and tells me that DS is totally normal for his age and that the mums I know with kids of the same age who sleep. through the night most nights and self-settle to sleep are lying..... (?!)
I totally understand that younger babies wake frequently but surely by 2.5 years old they should sleep more consistently? He doesn't stop all day so must be tired.
Her coping strategies she recommends to us are to let him sleep in our bed, to nap when he does and to accept that he is normal and may not sleep through for another couple of years (!) She's a SAHM of 3 who home educates too btw.
He has to have one of us with him until he falls asleep. This can be around an hour each time, in addition to the rest of the bedtime routine. He wakes at least a couple of times at night, usually more, and we have to go to him and stay with him for as long as it takes or he screams and comes into our room.
DH is all out of patience and I'm almost there too. We've set up a travel cot in our room but even if we move him in there when he wakes, he cries and asks to be cuddled.
Help! Is my friend right?! Are toddlers who sleep well just fiction and lies?!
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inconceivableme · 03/01/2015 16:40
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