please please help me

[popsycalindisguise]

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I have an ongoing thread in breast and bottle feeding topic.

To summarise:
ds2 is 11 months. breastfed
never slept
wakes at least 3 times a night. usually more

tried everything possible that i can think of/have read
including:
elizabeth pantley
tracy hogg
shortening night feeds by a minute a night....cant get down past 5 minutes
classical music (yes i am desperate)
more blankets
less blankets
selective ignoring
shushing and patting
co-sleeping

you get the jist
not done CC as I really dont feel emotionally able
it is making me ill - off work sick with this as a contributing factor
help

Good for you Popsy - hope it's better/easier/quicker tonight for you

Fingers crossed.

he just woke....but by the time i got upstairs he was asleep.....

keep your fingers crossed....

hi i was wondering if any one has or is having the same problem as me my daughter is 13 month and she still wake through the night i haven`t had a good nights sleep since she was born she is still in our room my partner think it will be better if she stays in our rm till she stop wakening through the night she has excema and doc said we should only bath 2 a week as it takes the moister out of her skin she falls asleep on her own but wakes at-lest 3/4 times a night midwife said give her water through the night but she wakes up for that some one please help before i go mad

Fingers are tightly crossed. I'm off to bed now, hope you get a good nights sleep too.

ok....

i went to bed at 9 - ds2 woke briefly at 1 but dh went to cot and patted him for 10 seconds and he went off

woke twice between 2 and 3 put took literally a minute to get him back off

woke at ten to five
so I fed him
back to sleep til 6:30 and up for the day.....

we are getting there...

Just popped over to see how you were getting on...
Sounds like real progress.
Excellent news that ds is settling down to sleep much quicker. Another couple of nights like this and (finges crossed!) you should have it cracked. It seesm to me that the turning point in getting babies to sleep well comes at the point when they learn to settle back down quickly from night wakenings.
Good luck.

Popsy, that is such good news. Hope tonight goes even better for you.

ok he is asleep - later than usual as he had a late nap.....

same plan - aiming for 5:15

We are waiting for an update Popsy! !

just popped in to see how you're doing popsycalindisguise.....
sounds like its going well

Hi Popsy, hope things are still improving!
Let us know how is it going.
Am keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Hi Popsy..
U must count urself lucky....!
My son is 10 months old, BF, and has been getting up every hour on the hour since he was 5 months old!!!..he gets up cries, has a 5 min drink and goes to sleep again...I knw it sounds as if he needs me for comfort, his not hungry, so I have tried the dummy, doesn't suck it....keeps crying..
If I leave him to cry, he crys himself (not to sleep) but, AWAKE...
His up for 3 hours after that, so now he is in my bed, and drinkin whenever he gets up!!!...My partner has tried getting him back to sleep, but, he just gets WIDE awake!!
I feel shattered during the day, i am on extended maternity leave from work, I have just accepted it...!

Aloha, can you please give details of this sleep lady pl?..
So, now are you counting your lucky stars??....
P.S I am a 1st time (and probably, because of sleep deprivation, LAST time) mum.....

Popsy, is everything OK? We haven't heard from you for a few days.

cut and paste from anoterh thread We haev been in hospuital since tuesdya morning and have just ogt home.
Poor Harry has been very poorly.
I knew the lump in hi neck wasnt rigth so we went back to gp on monday then again on tuessaday then got sent to hospital as the swelling was getting huger and huger and he couldnt swallow properly.
anyway - he had 3 infected lymph nodes - the actual lymph nodes themselves wrere infecte.
there was talk of operating to drain them as it was touch and go asd to whether an abcess had developed
anyway
3 full days of intravenous antibiotics and things improve.d
home now with 2 different does of oral anitbiotics for a week and a review next friday

oh and work have agredd to me going 2 days from march
am overwhemlmed and weepy

needless to say, sleep has gone arse over tit again
if you will pardon my french

i am wondering whether to start up again with this or to just go with the flow and start next week

ohh poor son... and you....
I'd be tempted to wait till he was 100% well again...

yes - i quite feel like a snuggly night of co-sleeping
bad bad mummy

Popsy - What a scare! Glad thingsare under controlnow!
Work news seem to be good too! Hope tha gives you some time to take care of yourself.
Take a god rest, and then re-evaluatewhat you want to do. We always make better decisionswhe weare not exhausted!
enjoy ds!

Hi Popsy,

Hope your little un is a wee bit better now:?....
Just wanna say THANKYOU to all the mothers that have given advice here, da day I read it, I put my son to sleep at 9, he got up every hour, and I rocked him back to sleep....
The next day he got up every two hours, I didn't feed him, just rocked...
The following day he just woke up at 3a.m....and now, he goes to sleep at 9 and wakes up at 6.30 am!!!
HOORAY!!!!! its as if his a different baby altogether!!
THANKYOU ALL
So, Popsy, there is a light at the end of the tunnel (it was a blooody long tunnel though!!)
His still in the same bed though I am tooo scared to put him in his cot, he might start getting up again!!!