Hi,
Sorry I have not been back here since first posting. Been on holiday to Dorset for a week which was lovely and before that was struggling lots with DS and not able to get time online.
Joyful, sorry things have been so difficult, it sounds exhausting. I hope the anti depressants work for you and the counselling waiting list is not too long. I pay for private counselling as GP list was too long as I have issues about DS's traumatic birth and week on SCBU and I really find it helpful, hope you do too.
Little wavey lines That sounds really distressing for you and DD. I hope you find a way of it working for you both very soon, not nice at all.
truth the impass sounds very tough for you guys to work through. Hope he changes his mind when sleep comes more easily and the fog clears. 10pm until 5.30am must have felt amazing :-)
unhappyhildebrand that sounds like a lovely sleep, hope he didn't make you pay for it the next night in the end.
Mitsouko That reaction sounds scary. hope it is something she grows out of very soon.
Tickle The text book 7-7 dream! Hope he has kept that up!
We are 6 weeks in to our hellish sleep time and DS is 5 months on thursday. Thinking it is not just a sleep regression/leap as he cannot settle himself ever bless him. Naps are only sling or car. If in the sling and walking outside then he sleeps fine and within a couple of minutes of putting the hood up, if at home then it is walking to get him off, then rocking on the glider with bum pats and white noise.
Going to sleep is generally fine now and he usually feeds to sleep at 6/6:30pm and sleeps until 10/10:30 occasionally 11 and then it is downhill from there. Last night he was awake and sobbing every hour from 6, gave him nurofen as think he was teething and he did really well and managed a 3 hour, then a 45 min monster feed pull off, jolt awake root etc... then a 2 hour then every half hour until Daddy came (sleep on the sofa during the week now) and took him at 5:45 until 7:45 thank goodness.
Some nights it is 30 mins-40 mins - 55 mins all night long :-( doesn't feed just dummy and pats most of the time. he makes the saddest face and cries until you pick him up and then he sinks in relief in your arms and is asleep within seconds.............until next time he wakes and can't settle........
Not showing signs of increasing hunger to make me want to wean early or think it would help really.
CC Is really not for us. Have read the 'no cry sleep solution' on holiday (oh the days when holiday reading was trash!) and am starting logs tomorrow.
Hope we all have good nights tonight x