never posted on here before…
Cracking a bit with lots of things, sleep is just one of them. I wonder if anyone had some suggestions.
Baby is 13 months and historically a pretty good sleeper. Fantastic (10 undisturbed hours most nights!) between months 2 and 4, and then other than a few weeks of sleep regressions here and there, mostly slept well between 6.30pm and 6am with a night feed (just one). She's exclusively bf and we didn't try any routines or sleep training, just lucky!
She got quite ill around 2 months ago and basically we held her in our arms every night while she was all coughing and wheezy. Now she's better but sleep has not recovered. She goes down ok most nights, but needs re-settling a couple of times before 10 or 11 when she wakes properly and won't go back to sleep unless me or boyfriend (usually boyfriend) has her in bed with us. Wakes screaming for milk at around 1am. Sometimes goes back to sleep easily, sometimes it takes an hour of soothing. She wriggles around like crazy all night. I love the idea of co-sleeping (and we did when she was tiny) but just cannot sleep through the gymnastics. So we do it in shifts in the spare room. Still just one night feed. Which I want to stop but keep chickening out.
I work part time but long shifts on my feet (including night shifts) and am cracking with exhaustion. I am not really into sleep training and have always been of the ride-it-out school with sleep problems - before they have always just sorted themselves out with time and she's gone back to sleeping beautifully. But it's been 2 months and I'm so tired. I miss my boyfriend.
thoughts? Suggestions? Just sympathy might do right now I am sobbing into my coffee. People keep saying teething - she still has no teeth!!