Bit long but don't want to Op by stealth.
This concerns my dd2 [1yo] sleep patterns.
DD1 took quite a bit of training really. We did pick up put down, she was never left to cry, but we never coslept and she always always slept in her cot. It took months and moths of sitting in her room, in the dark, eating bread and butter for dinner. We did it though and she is now a really good sleeper who enjoys her bed.
DD2 started crying at birth and never stopped. SHe spent 6 weeks sleeping wither on me, on boob, on Dh shoulder, or in bed with us. It is true. She maybe had less than 10 independant sleeps.
We went on to discover at 6 months she is really quite badly dairly intolerant. She was screaming in agony and I am glad we gave her the physical attention she needed to cope.
So the child pretty much spent the first 6 months of her life in agony. Poo was agony, wind was asony, burping made her shake, it was awful. Really truly awful. She was hardly ever put down becasue she cried. I had to hold her when I was on the loo, cooking, cleaning...driving made your ears bleed. Truly I am not laying it on thick. I have witnesses!! She once screamed for 3.5 hours in the car, once for 2.5 - and often for and hour as my family is an hour away.
So now here we are. Now about 6 months pain free due to dairy free diet and formula [stopped bfing in sept at 8 months]
She will sleep nowhere but in our arms or in our bed - but even then cuddled in. We are starting to see a bit of routine, which is an improvement.
up 6.30 to 9am, but need to be woken at 7.30am for school run.
Starts chuntering and demanding to be held about 8am
Back from school run and goes to sleep on my chest about 9.30-10.00am.
I sit with her asleep till about 11.30-12.00noon
[If I move or put her down she wakes up within about 2 mins]
Lunch
Sleep in same way about 1pm
Wake her 2.30pm for school run [by moving out of bed and putting her down].
If we go out in the day she might go to sleep in the pushchair after a few hours. Only until it stops moving, then she is up again.
2.30-6.00pm spent trying to feed her and dd1, playing with dd1 etc. She chunters and follows me about, or cries to be held.
DH gets in at 6.00. He takes dd1 and does bed. I take dd2 to bed and she sleeps on me.
7.30-8 I'm starving and put her down to eat/wsh up/laundry, so she wakes up
Up till 10-01.00 am overtired and unable to settle.
Wakes on and off overnight, but usually cuddles back in and drifts off.
Now this is better, because at least there is a pattern. But it does need...er.....tweaking.
What would you do?