What I means is - my 6mo wakes at 2.30 and that is it. Not "he wakes and I have to feed him" oh you lucky things; not "and I have to rock him back to sleep" oh if only! No, my DS wakes to start his new day at 2.30.
He's never been a good sleeper, always waking every 3 hours or so which was bad enough. I thought when we got to 6 months he would turn a corner but instead he's got soooo much worse.
Yes - we have a bedtime routine which we've had for 4 months. Yes - I put him down awake. Yes- I've tried leaving him to cry, trying to nip it in the bud, feeding him, changing him, rocking him, gentle hand and 'shhhh', putting him in our bed. Whatever I do he wakes at 2.30, 2.35, 2.39 etc and that's it.
He eventually has a 30 min catnap at about 6am.
It's killing me getting up at 2.30 every day. And to make it worse he stirs a lot before this so even if I went to bed at 7.30 every night I'd still be disturbed - last night he woke at 10 and it took an hour to get him back.
Could my DS be the only baby in the world who needs only 6 hours sleep? Should I put him to bed at 11pm?
In desperate measures I was going to try controlled crying but am worried as the point of that is you go in at different intervals to comfort your child - I can't actually comfort or settle him no matter what I do so don't know if it will work for us.
Anyway, don't know if I want advice or just to vent :(