I just wanted to post a positive story to give some hope to other sleep-deprived mothers. Up until 3 weeks ago, I was wondering when my 22 wo would ever sleep through. He was waking 2-3 times every evening (between 7 and 10) and then another 2 times in the night, wanting to be fed every time. On the worst nights, he'd wake every 2 hours. I was getting very disillusioned and starting to believe that I'd have to try CC/ CIO at some point, which I desperately didn't want to do. My biggest hope was that it would simply sort itself out. Well... I don't want to jinx myself, but somehow it has!! For the past couple of weeks he's been going to bed at 7, waking just once (between 10 and 11) for another feed, and then sleeping through until 7am. And the daytime naps are getting better and better too - he now has 30 mins in the morning, 1.5 hours at lunchtime and another 30 mins in the afternoon. I can honestly say that this has fallen into place with no particular changes on our part, other than persevering with the 6.30pm bed and bath time routine. Oh, and i don't want to pretend that the naps are easy - he still needs to be pushed to sleep in his pushchair every day, but he does fall asleep quite quickly now. I was terrified that I was feeding him too much at night and not enough in the day, but he's decided to turn it around himself.
I don't want this post to sound boastful, because believe me i have suffered with some terrible sleepless nights, but I really wanted to read something like this a few weeks ago... so I thought it would be useful to post a positive story on here for others like me!!