Magic bullet anyone?? Sleep...

[er1507]

Dd is 7mo in 2wks and while we cosleep which I like, but she wakes up a lot! I usually nurse her back to sleep. She won't settle herself back to sleep or to go asleep in the first place. I don't mind having to cuddle her if she stayed asleep, I know she's still young and may need the night feed but when it can sometimes be every hour between 2 and 5 how can I stop this?? dummy is hit and miss with her. Someone suggested giving her water and shell eventually get bored of waking up and getting water. Has anyone done this and it's worked? Also I try and keep her in her cot for the first part of the night, sometimes if she's not fully asleep she will be happy to nod off if im close and patting her.

mutter to yourself "this too shall pass". It will. If you learn to nurse lying down, then you can go straight back to sleep while she nurses.

yeah I do that, god knows how I'd get through a day without doing it! I am hoping it will pass and really dnt want to go down the routes of sleep training, is this really possible?

my magic bullet was accepting that babies do it and it does end.

i struggled with sleep deprivation BIG TIME with ds2 (he was still feeding about every 45-90 minutes all night at nearly 10 months )
we did use the no-cry sleep solution eventually, which worked fairly well with him, but he was older than your little girl, and it certainly didn't stop the night wakings completely although it may have done had I persevered, but I was happy to do a few anyway.

but really, changing how I viewed it, and changing my own behaviour helped a lot. i used to go to bed really early, and have a little lie-in while DP got up with ds1 and ds2, that helped a lot

A friend of mine did the water thing and it worked for her. I decided against giving it a try because when I mentioned it to the HV she said there is no point in "starting a fight" in the middle of the night.

Just posted this on another thead.

"Babies will wean and someday they will sleep through the night. This high maintenance stage of nighttime parenting will pass. The time in your arms, at your breast, and in your bed is a relatively short while in the life of a baby, yet the memories of love and availability last forever"

And yes, This too shall pass.

Thanks for the replies, I get days where I do accept it and then someone asks if she's "sleeping through" and I feel under pressure then, sounds silly I know!