My ds is 10 months old.
He has never slept through the night. Has weeks of only waking once and weeks of waking 3/4 times.
He has to be breastfeed to sleep almost all the time. Can't really be put down awake to cry for a bit while he settles, as he shares a room with our older ds who is 7.
He is currently, after being a bit 'off' with a high temp on and off, over last weekend and early part of this week, in a cycle of going to sleep about 7.30/8pm, sleeping fine til about midnight, then crying on and off all night. Only thinks that settles him is a feed from me, but then he's back up again after about an hour. Each wake up is longer and longer and I'm bf ing him for up to an hour. I'm shattered, my h is shattered and both our older children are shattered too.
I KNOW feeding to sleep is a bad idea and I've made a rod for my own back. I also know that he doesn't NEED the feeds in the night now and that they have become a habit. But I'm desperate. Ds1 and dd were both sleeping through by 12 weeks or so and have always been great sleepers, so I've no experience if tho, no expertise and no clue. :(
Can't do crying it out overnight to get rid I the waking as it isn't fair on the other two. They have already gone to school knackered this week and that's with me racing to pick him up every time he's cried, to try and stop them all waking.
H very helpful at night, or tries to be, but baby only wants me and only wants bf. Although bf is seeming to settle him less and less as the days go on.
I've literally no idea what to do. I'm sitting here feeding him and have been for nearly an hour. I've put him back into his cot once and he went hysterical. He's even had ibup in case it's teething because he's had his two front top teeth cut this week. But it can't ALWAYS be teeth, and he's ALWAYS like this.
Please help. I feel like I'm sinking fast :(
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MummyIsMagic79 · 12/10/2013 01:24
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