Sleep training the baby that won't be sleep trained

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Hi all. Ds is 14 months and has woken every two hours every night since birth. I have tried everything possible re nap timings, bed times etc, doesn't make a difference. Ive tried CC three times since he was 6 months, doesnt make a difference! When he wakes, he'll sit up in his cot and start chatting to himself, if I go straight in and lay him down on his side he'll go back to sleep. If I leave him he'll chat and moan to himself until he's wide awake and then it takes hours to get him to go back, so CC has never really worked for us. I don't think it's a dummy problem as often he'll still have his dummy in when he wakes so he's not waking because he's lost it. He puts himself to sleep at bedtime so it's not that he can't fall asleep alone. Any ideas please????

My DS was just clingy and wanted to sleep beside me. If we were in bed together we slept well, if he was on his own he would wake up. The only thing that fixed it was time - at age 3 he started sleeping through by himself.

My sympathies. Mine was like that. CC didn’t work for him either.

He slept around 3 hours a night until he was 7! Looking back I don’t know how I did it, especially as I worked 30 hrs p/w from when he was 6 months old!

Breast fed? If not maybe cold or hungry- have you offered a bottle on first wake up ?

If he's not crying and safe in his cot I'd try leaving him and see what happens.

Even if he wakes up fully, if he realises that you're not coming to 'play' he might put himself back to bed.

If he cries, I'd go in and say something like it's still night night time then leave, so he knows you're there but limit interaction.

What you’re describing could actually just work.
Let him do that.

Appreciate the replies, thank you! @Magistera we do sometimes co sleep (well, he sleeps and I get kicked in the head) but he still wakes every two hours. @OnlyFoolsnMothers he's bottle fed. He has 9oz at bed so another bottle two hours later might be too much but I haven't tried it since he dropped his night feeds so it's worth trying again, thank you. @Twizbe, I think you're right, it's just the thought of losing the precious little sleep I get inbetween his wake ups

Hopefully it would only be for a couple of nights. The learn quickly and if you keep it up he'll hopefully give you longer stretches. Short term pain for long term gain type thing.