I just wanted to celebrate and hopefully give you lovely mumsnetters some hope that you may one day get some sleep!
I let my ds nap on me when he was tiny (and not-so-tiny). I breastfed him to sleep. I demand fed (sometimes for 12 out of every blimmin 24 hours). I coslept and fed every hour at night. Pick up put down made my ds hysterical within minutes and I wasn't up for controlled crying. I rarely had an uninterrupted evening and my DH and I have been out together in the evening ONCE since my ds was born.
But now a miracle has happened. Feeding to sleep stopped working and ds refused to lie down in our bed, so I was forced to leave him in the cot. He whinged for five minutes and then WENT TO SLEEP AND SLEPT THROUGH TILL 4AM! I thought it might be a fluke but he's done it a few nights in a row now, sometimes till 5AM (a bit too early but so much better than waking up three or four times for a feed).
Just wanted to let people know as I know it can be hard to keep doing what you're doing when you're desperate for an evening to yourself or a decent night's sleep and everyone is telling you to leave them to cry or go cold turkey on the night feeds.
I might consider trying for number two now...
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Share my joy at proving the "rod for your own back brigade" wrong - my anti-sleep 17m ds is now SLEEPING THROUGH!
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PrettyUselessHousewife · 06/07/2009 11:49
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