Anyone elses baby not sleep?

[mummytopebs]

DD is 1 and does not sleep!!! Maybe about 4 hours a night and 1 hour during the day. She does not cry but is in my bed for medical reasons and just wants to play all night. She is constantly happy during the day which I am very grateful for, but I am starting to wonder why she doesnt sleep? Could there be a medical reason or does she just not need it?

Any thoughts love a very tired mammy

I find that if my daughter is in our bed she does not want to sleep. I feel she just associates me with playing. Is there any way your little one can stay in your bed but in her own cot? I am not aware of the medical conditions under which your daughter is having to share your bed so this may not be of any help. Just thought I would say my daughter is also one.

Her cot does not fit in our bedroom unfortunatly. She sleeps with me as the blood vessels in her limbs sometimes cut off especially if she is laid on the left side. Thanks for the reply Bella, it looks like everyone elses babies sleep ;(

I feel for you. If it makes you feel less alone, my 9 month old still doesn't sleep well, day or night - he has less sleep than my 3 year old! But he is often irritable and does try to sleep, he just can't. So he sounds quite different to your daughter.

We have had a major breakthrough recently though, we took him to a cranial osteapath who found two compression points on his head. A week or so after the treatment, he started to sleep through the night; or on nights that he has needed a feed, he simply turns away after his milk and falls back to sleep. He even fell asleep in my arms at a friends house last week - I was amazed as he simply doesn't do this sort of thing. It is like having a differnt baby. No idea if an ostepath could help your daughter but maybe anything is worth a try in the pursuit of sleep!! If you do decide to try it, I would definately try to get some local recommendations as they seem to vary a lot.

My GP advised, if co-sleeping, to always keep your eyes closed and ignore them so that eventually they sleep. I can't say it worked for us though ;o)

Good luck!

Actually I use the close your eyes technique when putting my daughter to bed in her cot. It does work that is if she does not make funny noises which make me laugh! I would not worry though my daughter is a right tinker when it comes to bed time took two hours tonight!

Just thought I may be teaching you to suck eggs but we have reecently introduced a bed time routine. I hate routines but I had to do it. It has seemed to work as my daughter does not takes so long to settle. Basically an hour before bed time is wind down time she has a bath and I read to her usually she falls to sleep as I do this. Hope this helps you may have 5 other children so sorry if I sound patronising.

You do not sound patronising and good god I do not have 5 other children!!!!! Just 1 other they both do bath, drink, story bed so cant improve on that (well dd goes in her pushchair not bed) its when she wakes up later and wants to play all night that is the problem.

I am going to try and get her cot in my bedroom*my bedroom is tiny) to see if that works, then I can still keep an eye on her through the night but wont be so close. I will try the closing eyes thing except i think she will just get up and put her finger in my eye :)