Give me strength! Five full months of no sleep. Not one night of full sleep whatsoever and it's slowly but surely driving me loopy! DS1 slept consistently from 7-7 at around 4 months so this makes it even harder to digest! Generally DS2 has one feed in the night anytime from 1-5am and goes back down relatively easily, but the past three nights he has taken to pooping in the middle of the night too so that's another wake up. He also stirs and gets upset once or twice and I solve this by giving him a dummy. He goes down at 7pm and doesn't get out of bed again until 7am which is the only positive. All in all I'm shattered and becoming like a nocturnal animal! My DS1 has just turned 2 so I'm run off my feet all day and don't get a chance to nap.
Please tell me the end is in sight?!! When did your little ones sleep 7-7? A few people have said it was 12 months or beyond for their babies so I'm praying this isn't the case for me. I'm back at work full time in three months!
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STILL not sleeping through.
dabbitydibbity · 23/08/2017 20:32
DS is 11 months and wakes anything from once to ten times a night. He likes to wake up for 2 hour stretches in the early hours now, too. Thats a new thing. He's not upset, he's happy, he isn't wet or dirty or hungry or anything... just awake. And giddy.
I haven't had more than three hours unbroken sleep in almost a year. It's funny though, you do get "past" a point of exhaustion.
Am back at work soon too. Looking forward to the break, as DS an absolute whirlwind morning til night. 
DS1 didn't sleep through til 18 months and that was fairly rare there was usually one wake up. It varied from 1-2 hourly and sometimes 3-4 hourly those first 18 months. He's 2 now but doesn't do 7-7 he does more like 8.30-6.
DS2 is 8 weeks and wakes up two or three times between 9 and 6.
I remember the exhaustion with DS1, current situation feels great in comparison.
I do think stressing about it makes you feel worse. Accepting that you'll wake up sounds like rubbish bit definitely helped. I also coslept in the end as I couldn't bear to be up and down. At least with cosleeping I didn't have to fully wake.
I remember being back at work and saying how I hadn't slept more than 3 hours for over a year. I thought I was making a joke but suspect I sounded hysterical
My DS is finally sleeping through almost every night, at almost 3yo. But I now have a 13w old so still no sleep 
. Totally normal to wake at night, I just got used to it i think. Caffeine helps 
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DD is 16 months and yet to sleep through, such is life I guess. I'm praying my next one does 7-7 from 4 months!
Stock up on the coffee and get your OH to help wherever possible? 
Dc1 was about 14 months when she first slept through, and was sleeping through most nights by 18 months.
Dc2 first slept through at 18 months and now he is 21 months sleeps through about half of the time.
We survived by co sleeping, Dc2 has just moved into his own bed. It's really not so bad when all you have to do is roll over and stick a boob in their mouth .
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