I am a real attachment parenting type. I co slept with DS1 until I was 6 months pregnant and he was 2. I wore him in a sling everywhere. I fully intended to do the same with DS2 BUT DS1 wakes him up all the time with his shouting joyful exuberance. So although DS2 still co sleeps with me, I have relunctantly come to the conclusion that I must Do Something about his daytime naps.
This is what DS2 day looks like at the moment (He is 5 months):
7.30-8am wake up, feed
10am feed to sleep in my lap for anything between half an hour and an hour
12pm - 7pm feed on demand and whinge a lot due to tiredness. Will sleep in pram for half an hour max, or up to 2.5 hours in the sling if I stay standing up and if DS1 doesn't wake him
7-9pm settles down for sleep and feeds on a good night not at all or just once, or on a bad night (rare) every 3 hours.
He can get off to sleep by himself in the pram or occasionally in bed, but generally speaking he feeds to sleep unless in the sling.
So I was thinking that PuPd might work for us, but I don't know much about it. I have set up a bedside cot in my room and plan to get DS2 to sleep in it at night as much as possible, and he really does need to learn to sleep in there during the day because he is not the happy baby that he should be and is for the first couple hours of the day, because he is not getting enough daytime sleep.
All of this goes against my instincts but for his sake I think I need to do something Can you help? I don't even know what PuPd is really. I have a week whilst DH is off work to really devote to doing this.
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Can someone who is sympathetic to co sleeping etc talk me through PuPd or some other way of getting my 5m old to nap please?
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TheProvincialLady · 25/05/2009 17:23
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