Lost sleep, starting to loose sanity...please help!

[Ghostie]

My DD is 15 weeks and was always a good sleeper. At about 9 weeks we went camping and she slept the whole night through in bed with me. Once we got home she was sleeping 7-3 and then feeding and then back to sleep till about 6.

We then listened to others who kept "advising" us and gave her a bottle and dream fed at 10.30 to try and get her to do the whole night. Bad move. She then started waking up at ten and expecting to be bed. We've now cut the feed out and things seemed better for a bit. But the last couple of nights she's been up every hour 1/2 and even when I crack and co sleep she's still not settling and I am totally exhausted. A few weeks ago I put her bad sleep down to a growth spurt. Then I though, ah she's got a cold. Now the HV says she's teething, which I guess could be making it worse?

I don't know what to do to help her sleep better, please advise? Please tell me this is going to get better again!!!

Hi,

I am probably not who you want to hear from. My baby is eight months and started waking hourly from around 12 weeks. She has never stopped!

I know this sounds unthinkable at the moment, and you probably don't want to even conceive that this might be the case for you, but just to say: you will survive it.

I survived by co-sleeping until she was 7 months. She woke and I rolled over and she helped herself to my boobs. These are entirely bad habits to get into, but if they save your sanity, I'm all for bad habits.

I spent too long getting uptight about what she should be doing. In the end, I just went with what made life easiest. Now, after a few difficult weeks of tears and frustration, she sleeps in her cot from 7-11 and 11-3, and then she comes in with us.

I will miss her when she sleeps on her own forever.