AARGH. i have jusat sworn at my baby and burst into tears and left the room. i am a terrible mum. dh is with him, don't worry, and is soothing him off to sleep. hopefully. he's 4 months, we're struggling with the 4 month sleep regression. he will not go to sleep unless he is fed to sleep. it's all very well people going on about rods and backs but frankly it's either that or leaving him to cry, which i have not done and will not do, and also bfing is designed to get babies off to sleep so why fight it. so far so good. but every evening is an endless repeat of feeding him to sleep, then i put him down oh so gently, wait 5 mins, tiptoe out of the room, then he starts crying again. and repeat. then a few goes of feed him to sleep, put him down, eyes snap open, crying starrts. endlessly. over and over again. however soundly asleep he is in my arms he will not stay asleep when i put him down. i then move on to feeding him lying down, in the hopes i can edge slowly away from him when he is asleep, then shift him from our bed to the co-sleeper cot when we come to bed. no luck - as soon as i start to move he twitches and starts crying.
for ages we were just putting him to bed when we went, as he just wouldn't go down before, but a) we need a bit of adult only time in the evenings and b) it either means him not waking up till 11-12 in the morning so we can't do anything in the mornings, or i have to get him up earlier which means he is grouchy and overtired all day. neither is ideal. we have had a few successful evenings of putting him to bed early but this is the fourth night in a row of feed-put down-feed-put down for 3-4 hours at a time and i have had enough.
will it get easier?