Non sleeping baby up for sale.

[codswallop]

why will my 5 mth old not sleep through?
e=ven only one eed a night would be nice.

I think he is a spy or a diamond smuggler

(Surely not data integration software)

coddy.

Having been all smug about my lot sleeping well my nearly 2 year old has just learnt how to climb out of his cot. Aaaarrgh!!!

personally find data integration software far, far more mysterious than diamond smuggling.

how do you cope with three alone?????

Its easy,well, its fine. - these things always appear far harder than they are in reality.

One is at school mind you - altho wasnt on Dhs last trip to Cape town.

Smug post alert (avert eyes if tired)

DD slept from 6.15pm till (drum rolllllllllll) 7.15am! Did not make a peep once, and is now sleeping on tummy with her little hands under her face, ahhhhhhhhh.

Grrrrrr - no seriously congrats

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

.....and last night she woke me up 4 times

teach me to tempt fate harumpphhhhhhhhh

Offer on again. Up from 3.30 till about 6, I'd say. Tried feeding (have to say would rather sleep than night feed myself, in whatever position), she still rumbled and rustled.

I am actually having a very bad day and am at the end of my tether.

Oh no motherinferior Have been there myself and you just want someone to take the damn baby away, dh got v cross with me once when I tearfully bellowed this request at 4am.

No helpful suggestions from me I am afraid, blind leading the blind (((((((((hugs)))))))))

Fathersuperior will indeed have her tonight as he's been sleeping downstairs for the past couple of nights in order to cope with work rather than two under-threes. IKWYM about wanting someone to take them away. EXACTLY.

Then you feel mean and a bad mum. Or I did. It does get better. Until they start teething ho ho ho ho

Feel so much better reading this. My 17 week old ds wakes randomly in the night and wont go back to sleep until fed (have tried water, leaving him for 20 mins, cuddling etc) He went through a couple of weeks of one feed between 7 and 6.30 but now is waking a couple of hours after I settle him. Should I start him on baby rice now? All the babies in my antenatal group are sleeping through. I feel like a failure - and a very tired one! Ds does seems to have had a lot of colds though.

DS2 ( now 15 weeks ish ) wakes once at about 2.30am, I shove a dummy in his poor mouth and put him in the kitchen, turn on the dryer for half an hour and he goes back to sleep. I can normally do the dryer trick again, one more time when he wakes up at 5/6am so that I don't have to feed him till 6/7am when he eats like a demon.

HE WILL LEARN - night time is for mummys to get their beauty sleep.

hi everybody can i join in?
It sounds like science fiction for me- bbaby going to bed at 6.30 pm. My 6months old goes to bed at 10 pm! And I wouldn't mind that, but he doesn't sleep trough. He doesn't need bottle, just calls me to comfort him. Wakes up at 8 am and has 2 naps 1.5 hour each during the day. He was an angel till 4.5 months and now he's worse then newborn. Thought it was teething but now believe more in full moon. Didn't try anything yet because can't make up my mind what's the reason. He doesn't stay awake though

whens his last sleep Jedy? mine has been awake from 1pm till 6 pm today and is sleeping MUCH better.

mother iNferior is that baby still in your room? OUT OUT OUT
Mimm def solids - also are you still winding him? I found mine often did a big burp..also i leave blankets/bags off now till 9pm ish

I think ds2 sometimes sleeps better at night if he has had more sleep in the day - he does about half an hour - one hour in the morning and 1.5-2 hours in the afternoon which can be up to 4.30pm then off to bed by 8pm and wakes at 6.30/7.30. He is 6 and a half months now though and he has only been doing this well for a few weeks.

5 hours awake- that's hard for him. his last nap ands at 5-6pm and he's tired in the evening. i can't put him to bed earlier- he'll wake up earlier. Actually one day he slept bit more during the day because we were driving a bit and was much happier during the day, full of energy, but apart from driving he woldn't sleep more than 3 hs (and it didn't change anything about night). Last night was disaster, picked him up every hour (no no, i won't listen to this crying, too tired for it)(gave him both calpol and teetha and moon isn't full). I took him to the doctor already, but can't stop thinking there must be somthing wrong with him. He was such a sweet and placid newborn. I was thiking about this cranial osteopathy but he would cry straight from the beginning, wouldn't he? Would it be food- hungry or overload? Our young marriage is bit strained, what i wouldn't give to find solution!

I went to a cranial osteopath at9 weeks and it seemed to cure the colic at that stage - there is no harm in trying as they are very convincing - niot 100% sure it was the reason it stopped though but you never can be really.

Good luck

Kaz33 - have you tried recording the drier onto tape? We did that with both the hair-drier and washing machine and played them to our DS when the crying got bad in the early days. He also likes one particular Coldplay track, which is much nicer for my ears... Aparently they like rhythms which sound similar to a heart-beat, so you might find an alternative if you experiment with a few cds? Maybe worth a try.

Karen99 - have something on CD which I used to play, just don't want to listen to it at 4am in the morning - he is in with us.

Think we are going to have to let him cry and settle himself at 4am - need to find a week when DP isn't too stressed and can sleep on the sofa. Maybe the week after that. Hopefully after a few nights he won't wake up!!!

Jedy I think to myslef - he is fed he is changed - he is tired because I have seen him rubbing his eyes and therefore I cannot do anything else.. so I put him in his cot, take a note of the time and remind myself no to go in for 10 minutes... then go into the garage or garden and do something and he oges to sleep.

Is he in your room jedy?

C osteo is worth a try as is a bottle of wine and a facial for you. IT WILL PASS!!

Please can I join in here as I am getting desperate. DD is 6 months and has gone from : going to sleep on her own, sleeping through and having decent daytime naps to waking at least 3 or 4 times in the night, not being able to go to sleep on her own and refusing to sleep during the day. She goes to bed at 7.00- 7.30pm but is waking at 12.30am, 3.30am and 5.30am and occasionally stuffs another feed in at 10.00pm.
The only way I can get her back to sleep is by breastfeeding her or cuddling her, if I leave her to cry for even a minute she just pukes up everywhere (and she has not been a sicky baby as a rule).
For this reason, I am unable to encourage daytime naps unless I go for a long walk and leave her in the pushchair or go for a drive.
The bedroom stinks of sick (and so do I at the moment). I am getting really fed up, I never had any of these problems with ds, he just went to sleep after a bit of a murmur!
I need to start weaning her off so that I can go onto some medication, but this is going to be impossible if she won't sleep without being breastfed.

Sorry if this is a bit long and moaning but am getting to the end of my tether!

Please give me some suggestions

he is in my room cods, i have poor accomodation and have no choice. he falls asleep for me no problem, with the bottle i have to say but this i could sort out when if i got back to waking up 2-3 times and not every hour! But i just got new idea- we had very very busy and exciting day today and K slept twice, 1 h altogether instead of 3! I never thought he would be able for it but maybe that's what he needs?! WE live in countryside and i have no car when the other half is working so our life can be very quiet sometimes, too quiet for little chap. He fell asleep in my aunt's house (REST!) at usual time (10) and we'll see results tomorrow!
About going to sleep with bottle i'm going to try "kissing game" (books say it would work for breastfeeding at night) i wouldn't leave 6mo old to cry like that and i don't think lulu you should upset her so much, maybe she needs more gradual changes. lulu i know everybody is saying their babies go to bed at 7 but mine is the happiest between 8.30 and 9 and after that is winding down. Maybe your one doesn't need so much sleep? Well, i can't sort out my own, so probably shouldn't give any advise, but if mine went to bed at 7 he would be up at5 am. For the day!