When will he sleep?

[ZebraZeebra]

Lol :) I know no one can really answer.

We co sleep with DS, 11 months. He goes to sleep at 7pm, and can wake anywhere between 3 and 6 times a night. Sometimes he just needs a shush/pat thing, other times it's a feed. A lot of the time at the moment, it's a compulsion to stand up - I guess that's developmental.

I'm fairly relaxed about it, have no plans to try and "make" him sleep through just yet, like night weaning or whatever. There's no problems, as such. I expected this, and I guess some people get lucky with a baby that loves to sleep. And I guess others don't :)

I just...I guess I just need reassurance it won't be like this forever. It won't, right? At some point in my life, I won't be up and down like a jack in a box, I can begin to rely on him sleeping through of an evening, I can get more than three hours straight...right?

Honest answer? While you're co-sleeping, no he probably won't sleep. Dd was exactly the same. Like you, I continued to co-sleep with her until she was 11 months & then suddenly dh & I had just had enough. She was waking constantly & when she wasn't doing that she was writhing around & kicking/pinching me & then the final straw was when she decided that she would wake about 2 hrs after she'd gone to sleep & it would take 3 hrs to get her back to sleep!

We did cc to get her into her own cot in her own room. It was pretty hellish at first & I'd always vowed id never do cc, but I'd hit rock-bottom. Over a month on & she sleeps in her cot in her room. Yes she still wakes up, but we have had nights where she's gone through & those nights make it all worth-while. Plus we get our bed to ourselves! I'm no longer feeding her at night either.

Not sure if that's much help, but good luck!

It won't last forever. I gradually stopped cosleeping from 9 months by setting up a bed in DD's room then would leave her after her bedtime feed. Sometimes she'd settle other times she'd be upset so I had to go back in. Now at 21 months I can leave her in her cot awake!

Well ds is 3 in October, sleeps in his own room, allegedly, and he wakes two or three times per night.

Hope you have better luck than us.

Oh Antidote :(

I don't mind the co sleeping. I like it. We'd sorta planned to do it long term, figuring he'll eventually want his own space and we'd move him into his own room. It's more - early evening, when he's upstairs and I'm downstairs trying to relax of an evening.

I dunno. I am ambivalent. I guess I'm playing a long game and not expecting sleep anytime soon, but just having a wobble that actually, yes, it will be like this forever!

Don't get me wrong. I loved it too, till I got to about 30 weeks with DD! Now that she's 3 weeks is staying to lose appeal.

My DS is 2.4 and is a co-sleeper and BF through the night. We've gone through some really (!!) Rough patches always when something developmental is going on. So when he was learning to crawl, again when he was learning to walk, around 18 months with the horrible sleep regression and right now he's coming on leaps and bounds with his speech so we're going through another sleepless phase.

I've sort of accepted that DS will not be a good sleeper possible for a good few years and decided to just go with the flow. I hardly have an evening, as he mostly wakes at least twice before we all go to sleep, but there's very little I can do about that. I find if I allow myself to get too worked up, I'll just be miserable so I try not to. I have to say though, there are some good times in between where he sleeps a good 3 to 4 hours in the evening and only wakes up once in the night so it's not all hell. Hang in there, nothing is forever!