i really need any advice I can get as am desperate to help my 12 week old ds to sleep better at night. He goes through from his 11pm dream feed until morning and never seems very hungry in the morning. This is great except he's waking loads in the night for help getting to sleep! We've started swaddling him and on the advice of a hv started leaving his arms out so he can suck if he wants to. We have also introduced a dummy in the last few weeks as he is a very sucky baby. What we are finding is that we are up several times every night to replace the dummy, or move him onto his side etc to help him settle again. He also ends up in our bed every night from at least 4am. Lady night was awful, he woke at 9pm hungry so I fed him a little then took half hour to settle, he then woke at midnight and after replacing his dummy three times gave up and took him into bed with me. He slept solidly without stirring until 7am, but was snuggled into me.
I also have a 3.6 year old who is being disturbed at night.
Any advice on resolving the dummy use and co sleeping would be appreciated!