8 months of no sleep- help me!

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Hello everyone, this is my first post, I hope you can help me. We have always co-slept with our baby until about 3 weeks ago when we decided to put him in the cot. I can't co sleep any more because I suffer with hypermobility and it was giving me such pain sleeping in dodgy positions!

My husband managed within three nights to get our baby to sleep in the cot (I couldn't bear listening to his cries) but he insists on waking every 1-3 hours.

When we co slept he wasn't a great sleeper; he would always be feeding until my breasts had nothing left. But now when he wakes I don't know if it is because he is hungry or misses us or what?

He is still in our room. We feed him hungry baby milk (which he doesn't like-prefers breast) in an attempt to fill him up once at 8:30 and again at about 12am.

Please help us! Any advice would be so much appreciated. I am demented with loss of sleep!

Thank you, Emily xxx

OP in the same boat- have a 8mo DS and he does not sleep well. I feel your pain.

I found hungry milk actually caused him to wake more, it was giving him awful tummy ache as it's harder to digest than regular formula. If he is normally BF then this could be why he's waking, as it's causing tummy ache?

I have gone back to using white noise again, seems to be helping. Other than that I co-sleep, which helps slightly!

Thank you Applysomepressure! Will deffo try the normal forma tonight! He is still breast fed at all other times and I get the feeling he is just fussing for the boob! I wish I could co sleep still but it isn't an option any longer. Also, do you leave white noise on all night? xxx

You could be right, he could be wanting a bit of comfort boob. If you're happy to give it then do it. I have to offer DS bottles throughout the night, mostly for comfort- he's slowly drinking less and less.

When he was tiny I left it on all night...then gradually weaned at about 14 weeks. At the moment I'm only putting it on to get him back to sleep/stop the crying whilst having a cuddle, then once asleep I turn it off. I have a feeling that I may need to start playing it throughout the night again...?

Maybe! What I was really hoping for was for him to sleep for a longer period than 3 hours so that daddy and I can catch up on some zzzzzzs. I can dream (accuse the pun!) I suppose xxx

Hi, it's hard with the new-ones. I remember my self walking the hallway during the wee hours of the morning praying for my first one to go to sleep!!

Have a read of this page as it has some excellent hints on how to get your little one to sleep through the night

pdf.thepdfportal.com/PDFFiles/6.pdf

Best wishes and good luck
Amy

Thanks Amy, this made for a very reassuring read! Our baby woke 8 times within 6 hours last night!!! God I am beyond tired now. I spoke to a professional today though and have been told to offer no milk after last feed before midnight and to do some tough love! She said it will take a week but should do the trick. We are in for a tough week I think but if I don't so this now I think I am heading for depression. Have any of you done CIO? Would love to hear how long it took etc!

Thanks again, Emily xxx

I'm 14 months in and still haven't had more than 3-4 hours without a wake up. Some nights its 10-16 times but mainly for a dummy

My advice ? If he's so used to cosleeping why don't you drop the side off the cot and have him lay next to you, meaning you can just pop your hand to him for comfort of needed?

Ooh, first post but just wanted to express sympathy. I have a 9 month old who generally wakes every 2-3 hours at night and has never gone beyond 4... She' in her own room as well, so lots of night stumbling around for me.
I'd love to push her longer, but she gets So upset and I'm scared that we'll lose the one benefit which is that she goes straight back to sleep after a feed...what do people think?

but anyway, if it helps, it really isn't just you

Thank you so much for all of your feedback guys. I feel so supported :-) we tried the drop down side of cot thing but never worked because he'd always crawl over to me! Had a very hard night of letting him cry last night but he did sleep 4 hours in a row which was quite honestly amazing! He has really resisted naps today though so feeling really anxious about how tonight will go :-( has anyone had any success stories? xxx