Non sleeping baby up for sale.

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

Don't know what I have done wrong with dd. Ds was a doddle compared to her, but maybe I've got a selective memory!

Apparently my brother used to go to sleep with the vacuum cleaner running!

i know what i did wrong. it was to nice to let this little thing to fall asleep on my lap. but he stil doesn't sleep through and i'm sure most of mums did NOTHING wrong. maybe some babies need more management then others

Bad night - he was too hot I think. Babysitter did the first waking tho!!

I have a 7 month old non sleeping baby - well he does sleep, its just he wakes up a lot. I think the thread was about sleeping through and he only did that once, and I ended up with mastitis Sorry to depress you Kaz33, but honestly I'm not a stressed out zombie, I think I've got used to it and I take all mother's claims about sleeping through with a large pinch of salt. On the other hand, mother's who can feed their babies anything and they are not allergic and all have beautiful skin. That depresses me.

It isn't always a myth, btb - dd1 suddenly got the hang of it at about 14 weeks (aha! we're coming up to 14 weeks!) and slept RIGHT THROUGH from then on. Only now of course she's waking and bellowing...

...two crap nights here, girls. Had pointless row with dp over the washing today, as result of both of us being sleepless zombies. Domestic disharmony in the Inferiority Complex.

May get commission to write piece for one of the baby mags about sleep. Oh har har har.

Snap, motherinferior - DS1 was sleeping from about 7pm to 5/6am about this time. Admittedly he was in his own room while DS2 is still in with us, don't want to inflict it on him DS1 yet...

Last night - DS2 stirred at 4.30am and shuffled and thumped and made noises until 5.30am before finally succumbing and putting him in the kitchen> Of course I didn't sleep from 4.30am onwards - so what is the point?? Motherinferior, did DD1 have a dummy ? Bit concerned that DS2 is not going back to sleep because no dummy.

My ds did great last night - 7 pm to 5am... but now my sil is coming to visit at 6-8. I know I am a bad person but I want to slap her as I would rather keep ds routine the same as yesterday in case the magic works again. I suppose last night was probably a one off anyway!

Well done MImm!

DD1 had dummy but not as dummy dependent as dd2...who's now in with her sister...oh god, starting to dread tonight already

Relax Mi it WILL come

Gosh fascinated to hear how having the two of them in the same room works - can't wait to evict DS2 from our room.

Party at 3 o'clock in nursery last night

Maybe tonight ???????????

Yippee - dd slept 11 hours last night with no feeds. Woke at 6.00am all bright eyed and bushy tailed. Can't move my arms now as boobs killing me!

Hurrah - DS2 slept from 7pm, feed at 10.30 in sleep as normal and then slept to 6am - resettled and slept till 7.45am.

He was in a lighter sleeping bag as his other one is in the wash - i wonder if that made a difference. Will try again tonight and see if it does.

Of course I have lost the ability to sleep now - so back on the Horlicks tonight.

Hooray here too - slept from about 8.15, feed at 10.30, slept till 5am...not brilliant but MUCH better. And the big thing is that if and when she woke, she settled herself back in some way or other. She's currently napping and I'm trying to do that dummy-free. I do wonder, Kaz, if one of the reasons our second children our greater dummy-addicts is that we're happier to shove the damn thing in - dp is very bad on this, I think. Dd1 went from dummy to thumb by this stage and I'd sooooo like that...

Having them both in the same room seems to be OK - dd1 is thrilled at the fact that 'we're sisters' (aaaah) and she sleeps so soundly that the odd going-in doesn't seem to disturb her. But of course things may change (my sister STILL reminds me of how when we shared bunks, I used to hang my arms and legs over the top and claim they were Dead Limbs).

Triple hooray! Only woke once thne slept till 7am

(weird eh?)

Right, let's put them in touch with each other and they can chat through those dark hours in the morning while we SLEEEEP.

Now going to start ringing schools re dd1, which will no doubt keep me awake for ever.

I am writing this on behalf of a good friend who doesn't have good access to internet.

She has 10mnth old baby girl who was 4 weeks premature. She is a complete nightmare of a child sleeping wise - has only slept through a handful of nights. Goes off okay, but then wakes up umpteen times through the night and can be up for hours. No amount of rocking/feeding/bringing into bed will settle her. They are at wits end & want to be referred for some professional help. Has threatened marriage really. Also have nearly 3 yr old boy who was a dream sleeper.

I know this mum is quite strict & has tried controlled crying but child becomes hysterical. We have debated what could be causing this, but can come to no agreement - maybe there isn't one. The only thing she admits herself is that she was so desperate to have another good sleeper is that she may have tried to force the child to sleep through at too early and age.

She is seriously down about this...any ideas I can pass on??

i think you should give us more details lazyeye
lubu it sounds just fantastic! last few nights ds wakes up once and even tho he wouldn't settle for 40 min last night i think new routine works and i'm happy i ever tried. i know now he's able to do it and i can resist temptation to pick him up. and one tooth is trough!

Jedy, it was fantastic! I am just not confident that it will last, but like you say, at least I know that she can do it. I am so glad that your new routine is working for you. No teeth for us yet, but the way she is biting everything it can't be long

Anyway, have finished my accounts now so must go to bed - yawn!

Slept until 6.30am - have i cracked it? Lets hope so.

Motherinferior - I think I am now going to tackle getting him to sleep without a dummy during the day, I agree it is so easy to push the dummy in when he is noisy. Totally unfair as he loves to talk.

Am getting qute jealous. Ds now sleeping between 10.30 and 6.30 which is great but will not go down at 7. aaaaaah!

Fairly awful night here - babe only woke once but so did big sis. And I woke up at 12.30. AND anyway 'morning' was 5am when I fed her. Feel very zonked although that may be because I had to walk over the hilly local park to get dd1 in HOWLING GALE yesterday, pushing buggy (talk about resistance training!).

However, am now trying to get her to nap with curtains closed and no dummy again. Which has, I think, succeeded

crap night - he has a terrible cold and cough and it was cold here last night _ I woke up cold too.

In the end we all slep in till 8 15 and ds1 has to got to school at 8 30!1 ds2 had to be woken at 845 - a 14 hour sleep...

ds3 had been up 3 times. More clothes tonight, roll on 12 months so I can give him cough meds