Really want my 19month to sleep through now.

[Stefka]

DS is 19 months and still wakes up at least twice in the night. He is still BF and he wants fed when he gets up so I feed him back to sleep.

I am back at work full time and the broken sleep is starting to do me in. I have tried the NCSS and I am not comfortable with CC.

I don't know what else I can do.

[TrinityIsLovingHerLittleRhino]

me either gecko is 2.3 and wakes every two to three hours
I wont do cc

good luck and BUMP

[Caz10]

all i can say is good luck and bump here too!

dd 18mths and although much improved is still waking once, i feed her then too. The early starts are actually the worst bit, she is a 5.30 riser

i've actually got another thread going re my current incompetence at work, partly due to being totally knackered.

Moving to her own room helped, getting dh to go in to her on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th wakings helped (she's now mainly down to one and that seemed to help us get there). Got a bnew blackout blind, doesn't seem to have done anything..

[Caz10]

that would be a new blackout blind

[onepieceofcremeegg]

Stefka is it definitely feeding he wants in the night? I used to feed dd2 automatically in the night because I was knackered and it seemed to be what she wanted. Then around 17m months (she is 21 months now) I just settled her in bed next to me and did all the usual comforting minus the bf. It seemed to work.

She isn't a brillian sleeper now tbh, but we have gone from feeding at least once or twice in the night to occasionally sleeping right through until 5-6am with often one brief waking prior to this but just needs a quick settle/offer of a dummy.

Good luck, my dd1 loves her sleep but dd2 has been a bit more tricky at night.

Caz I shall send you friendly vibes/thoughts when I am awake at 5-6 tomorrow.

[PhDiva]

My ds is 2.4 and he wakes about 4 times a night to bf (we co-sleep).

I have found the easiest time to say 'No!' to his cry for breast is towards dawn or after dawn (currently about 4:30 am to 6:30). By then I am knackered and irritable, and too sleepy to feel any sympathy, and I think he must be equally as sleepy, as when I tell him to 'go to sleep', he cries weakly (sort of 'forced' crying rather than emotional sobbing), and then he drifts off to sleep again.

I know that if I refused at any other time of day or night, he would quickly become hysterical. So I am hoping to extend the period of refusing to bf slowly backwards into the darkest hours of the night without him noticing!

So maybe on a long weekend or something, you could try refusing to bf if he wakes towards dawn. He might cry a bit, but I'll wager he will be too sleepy to feel very distressed.....Worth a try?

[Stefka]

If I don't feed him he becomes hysterical. I don't mind leaving him to grump for a bit but I can't stand leaving him when he sounds so distressed. I've tried taking him into bed with us but he just wants to go back to his own bed.