Nearly-7m old DS has been awake since 12.45pm. He continues to remain awake, shouting in his cot...

[notnowbernard]

FGS!

How can he not be tired enough to sleep?!

(Yes, yes prob overtired)

But he had both boobs, fell asleep at the end of the 2nd... and as soon as his head hit the bloody matress... Wah!!!

I am afraid to say I am letting him cry for a bit to try and get him to go to sleep

His non-sleeping is becoming legendary

I read that as you had left him in his cot since 12.45pm !

I'm sorry to hear of your sleeping problems - can't offer any advice but big sympathies .

Now that would be taking CC to a whole new level

He is slowing down a bit now but still not asleep yet

I keep going in every couple of minutes and "shush" him and pat him etc. He goes off hen 2mins later it's Wah! again

I did think you were quite brave to post that admission on MN !

DS2 was a shocking sleeper so a feel your pain - he is slowly improving but he is 16mths old now so it's taken a loooooong time .

FWIW I think you're doing the right thing, he will go off eventually - have you tried white noise of some kind?

Just gone off (I think...)

White noise - good idea, but it doesn't work anymore

Refuses a dummy now (grr!)

No comfort object yet (well, other than my mammaries)

And he is also at that frustrating stage where he can roll/crawl/rock in his cot thereby making sleep even bloody harder to achieve!

Have you tried taking your top off and putting it in the cot with him? Your smell may be reassuring enough to help him settle.

From my experience saying that he has been awake for 7 hours at a time is not unusual at 7 months. When does he sleep at other times?

CC works! stick with it, it took us three nights to get DS back in to the 'going t bed' routine following a period of illness, but I

Cuddled and sang
Patted and said bedtime time to sleep
Spoke from doorways
eveutally hollered upstairs mummys here sleepy time.
(leaving to cry longer in between each 'visit'

Its worked after threee nights, never stay in room and god forbid sit next to cot til they drop off, noose round your neck. Be firm

There is a developmental spurt around that age. I remember DS flund it impossible to switch off for a couple of weeks - he was wired. Took cuddling, rocking etc etc. Then it passed and he self settles again quickly until the next spurt

Re reading my post - I didn't mean DS was awake for 2 weeks

My DS was as Iggly says wired at this age. Blimey he was a nightmare to put to sleep, he's okish now. We still have our bad nights.

I feel for you OP, its relentless and draining sleep deprivation. I have no idea how such little people can survive on such little sleep. I need sleep damn it!

Bath with baby sleepy bath stuff, baby massage with baby sleepy balm, dark room, bottle, this nature noises sheep thing and put him down in cot.
I put a hot water bottle in the cot previously to discourage him waking when I put him down.

Hope it gets better asap

Thanks for the support

I think going 7hrs from lunchtime to bed time is a long time... what I mean is, by 7.30pm he should have ben ready to go to sleep!

I don't want to do 'formal' CC atm. Maybe when he is older. But what I have realised is that I can let him do some whingey crying for 15mins or so and he does get off to sleep (as opposed to screaming his head off crying). So will keep at this, he might learn to get off more quickly in my dreams

I have a mindee who wakens at 4.30 every morning and never sleeps a wink when he's here, (10 hours) and then although he gets put to bed at 6pm he never goes to sleep before 10pm. Apparently.

So he's awake from 4.30am - 10pm ish every day. He's 16 months.

bloody hell!

do you believe them?

I believe the waking at 4am, as the older brother told me "x wakes us up early and daddy swears". I also believe they put him to bed at 6pm. Not sure about the staying awake till 10pm ish though, although given how he is during the day wth me, it wouldn't surprise me if it's true

and you get the pleasure of it

nice!

I'm not surprised they give him to someone else to lok after! I think I would too!

i dont know,i am sitting here gulping down lunch in readiness for my 5wk old dd to wake up,she sleeps most of the night and all morning but from 2.30ish she is AWAKE!! We have to swap her around as she wont sit in her chair or swing or even being held you have to keep jiggling or moving her around.I am very gratefull for the good nights but am convinced this will change in the weeks to come.
Not much help,i just thought id share.

it's difficult though for me because my 2 were reatively good sleepers, apart from a few minor problems with DS2 when he was 3/4. They both slept well during th day too, as have msot fo the mindees I've had. I realise how lucky I am though, but it's very frustrating for me