My second child has never been keen on sleep. As a baby he always woke every 45 minutes through the night and I would feed him back to sleep. Until he was five months he would only sleep in my arms with me sitting up. At five months he was diagnosed with cow's milk protein intolerance which was thought to explain the very light sleeping. After I went on an exclusion diet and he was VERy gradually introduced to solids the intolerance seems to have righted itself but the sleep is still horrendous. I breastfed him until 15 months and all that time he woke every 45 minutes through the night and feeding was the only way to settle him. We did try everything else and even tried CC but it didn't work.
For the past five months (since stopping feeding him) it has got a little better and we are getting a stretch in the evening 7-12 but then he is unsettled for the rest of the night. He will only sleep if I am touching him in his cot (he won't sleep in our bed!!!) and if I try to sneak off when he is asleep he wakes again instantly and starts screaming.
I think I have reached the end of my patience with it. I was working, now studying full-time, and we have a four year old daughter. I am on my knees and have lost all perspective. We keep thinking it will gradually get better but it isn't and I don't know whether we need to "do" something. And if so, what? I won't leave him to cry, have exhausted all of Pantley's ideas and wondered if anyone had any?
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20 months of seriously broken sleep - I need some perspective (and new solutions) please!
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clemette · 15/09/2009 12:39
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