Hi everyone. I thought I'd create this thread when I saw that there were quite a few of us lingering on the 4 month regression thread, with babies that clearly didn't get the memo about things getting better!
I've seen another thread for parents whose children are long term poor sleepers but I think it's been relegated to zombie status. So I hope nobody minds if I start another one! If your LO consistently struggles to sleep, whether it's down to diet, night terrors or just sheer bloody mindedness, please pull up an armchair and join in! I'll supply the espressos, hugs and chocolate, wine and tears served after 4pm.
I'll start: my DD is 25 weeks. She's gorgeous, adorable and the absolute light of my life. Unless it's between the hours of 7pm and 7am! She's struggled with sleep always. I thought things would improve following the 'fourth trimester' but she got a cold, reacted badly to her jabs...and before I knew it we'd cruised into the 4 month regression. Which she's either still in, or she's teething, or developing, or wonder weeking, or fck knows really!
The past two weeks have been particularly painful and I feel I'm reaching the limits of my endurance. I love being her mum, I love spending time with her...but not sleeping makes it oh so very hard.
I have found Mumsnet to be a wonderful source of support during those dark and lonely hours when you feel like you're the only person in the world going through this. So I wanted to give back and support others too.
I'll put the kettle on...
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Purpleboa · 05/12/2015 13:53
I've been through so many sleep regression threads!
I'm probably an extreme case but my ds is 1 on Tuesday. He HATES sleep. There have been many a night sleep deprivation has reduced me to tears. We have an appointment to a sleep clinic but the earliest available appointment is February and that was only due to a cancellation.
On good nights he will wake up through out the night and go back to sleep if you lie him down and give him his dummy, bad nights he will wake up after an hour or so and stay awake for hours with 15 mins kip here and there. Nap times are bad too, to get him to sleep involves a lot of screaming/pinching/scratching.
I'm starting to worry there is actually something wrong 
It's nice just to have a moan sometimes with people who feel your pain!
I have no words of wisdom to get through the day, just tea 
and a lovely dm who takes him for the day here and there to give me a break.
In all fairness, he never slept when he was a newborn as he had an undiagnosed allergy so was in a lot of pain, that wasn't diagnosed until he was 5 weeks, then he was very ill and had to go to hospital for a week. Then he actually slept ok, only waking up 2/3 times in the night for a feed until 4 months. I thought it was the regression but it just didn't end [santa].
I think the only thing that has helped is having people to moan about it with who actually understand 
Starfish I have wondered if it is linked to the allergy. I am on a fb group for parents of babies with allergies and someone posted on there a few weeks back about how awful their baby sleeps and loads of people commented on it saying theirs were the same.
He sleeps with a muslin that smells of me and I have tried warming the sheets but no luck.
I have tried night lights, pitch black room, white noise, in own room, in my room, co sleeping, more feeds, less feeds, water in the night.... Pretty much everything but nothing seems to work 
The co sleeping worked for one or two nights after the first wake up, he would sleep for a couple of hours but then after that he would wake up and crawl round the bed laughing and squealing getting dangerously close to the edge.
My DS has just turned 7 months. He has been a nightmare with his sleeping patterns since 3/4 months. 6pm to 8am is chaos! As soon as I put him down in his cot, he screams, and screams, and screams. He's fed, changed, etc but he still continues to cry. As soon as I walk in the room he stops and starts smiling/laughing at me. Then cries when I go out.
I'm tearing my hair out. I really don't know what to do. We put him down about 7-7.30 and he wakes up after about an hour and then continues to do so until around midnight. Then he'll wake up around 2ish, 4ish and 6ish. Does anyone have any words of wisdom?
Starfish- I have tried that. I put a few toys and sit him up in there for around half an hour or so. I sit next to the cot and play with him and he is fine. When it comes to putting him sleep, that's when the fun starts. As soon as I lay him down, he starts crying
Jelly, no idea! But sounds very familiar. Could it be separation anxiety related?
Starfish I thought that too, he is currently doing the milk ladder but it hasn't made a difference. He had a reaction at pizza so have gone down a step again now
Does sound like separation anxiety and also that he's playing you by smiling when you go back in. Probably just a phase like everything else. Don't know about you but wish a good phase would come along soon!
Good he's building some tolerance tho zombie. Feels like a lifetime away until I can give up breastfeeding...
On another sleep related moan all naps are done in the pram, car seat or carrier. I would kill to get him in his cot but he just won't do it. 
Starfish ds will only nap on a bean bag in the living room, while I'm there and usually it ends up with a compromise of him being on me if I try and put him in his cot he wakes up straight away.
Fluff tbh I found the dietitian pretty useless, fingers crossed yours are better! That group is really useful for ideas although I don't comment on there as there seems to be a lot of arguing and nastiness
Currently sat with ds, he went to bed at 6.30 and is up for about the 5th time. His first wake up was one hour after he went to bed. The last wake up he wouldn't settle so he's now asleep on my lap, will try and put him down again in a min. I'm hoping for a miracle at this appointment in Feb.
I'm on the fourth resettle! I find the group a bit ott and too many pics of nappies
Yes lots of nappy pics
Ds has been up once after writing last post and is now up again he won't settle again and my husband is useless
I'm so tired.
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Cmpi... Might be a pattern emerging here.
Ds still awake I want to go to bed
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