Help I am still a human dummy at 18 weeks...

[katdempsey]

Hi
I am hoping some of you mums have good experiences to share as I am really fed up and concerned neither I or my lg is not getting good quality sleep. We have been cosleeping since the first week and she will only settle with nipple in mouth - not feeding a lot if time just sucking like a dummy. Have tried the pantley pull off to try get her in cot it sometimes works but often not she just wakes and cries. Tonight for example fed at 7 got her in cot 7:30 hurray!! 8:30 woke wouldn't settle cried so fed to sleep, 50 mins later finally back in cot after many put downs, waking and starting again... 10:25 awake crying 40 mins later of same try to settle first with no boob ending in hysterics, then feed to sleep and pull off try to get in cot, cries as soon as touched mattress. I gave up she is in bed next to me and has woken every hour or so she feeds / sucks anything from 5 mins to am hour to resettle. I can't sleep either as been woken so many times as regular intervals I am wide awake.... What to do? Any recommendations? I should say she used to do anything from 2-3 hr to 5 hr stretches but not for about a month... Am shattered so confused and have no will power either!

Not sure if this would help but I put a hot water bottle in dd cot so there wasn't such an abrupt change of temperature. Also I did a week accepting I would co sleep as she would sleep longer on me and get her into a good sleep pattern which would hopefully continue in the cot.

Hope that makes sense - I'm being climbed on by a toddler who sleeps all night in her cot - it does get better
Good luck

Have you tried a dummy?

You could be in the middle of the four month sleep regression where all hell breaks loose.

We were same as you, although co-sleeping did work for us.

It did get better over time (then worse for other reasons). I took side off cot and pushed about against bed. I could feed to sleep lying down then withdraw into my own space once baby was asleep.

Think he got used to cot that way. We used PPO method too and it did work, but very slowly.

Once he was a bit older I tackled self-settling by putting into cot awake at first nap and shhhhhing and patting like mad. There were tears, but they reduced quickly so by second day after every nap and night sleep happening that way he was going to sleep in ten minutes without tears.

We've had regressions but that's another issue!

Good luck.

Thanks. Yes tried a dummy on many occasions but she spits it straight out I tried holding it in for long time but still as soon as let go it comes straight out.
I'll try hot water bottle though.
We did the side off cot feed and retreat but she always ended up in bed with me again but thinking back I think that was the better nights. I got a terrible back but Can cope with that! Maybe a bedroom rejig again tonight!

My child could be your child! Was feeling pretty good with 1-2 night feeds and co-sleeping but he's 18 weeks, teething and waking every hour, only sleeping on my chest.
Hoping the magic of time will fix it.....

Puggle01, it's not,just us,then...
No advice, other than looking up the 4 month sleep regression thread.
Actually, maybe try the,dummy again if you haven't for a week it so - ours went off it and then on again. Also try different type of dummy, perhaps; there's a few different shapes.

hi there, I had a terrible time with my DD (who is now 3.5 and a good sleeper) if it's teething we had excellent results with homeopathy. If it's trouble settling without bf-ing we used acupressure and baby massage to help get into a deeper sleep quicker.

We also used Pantley pull off methods and saw a little improvement but it was too slow for us. You may have better results.
Anyway here's the info on acupressure points to induce sleep -
mydaughterwontsleep.com/2013/12/27/the-sleep-inducing-power-of-acupressure/ Good luck and best wishes!

Teething, sleep regression, growth spurt...unfortunately it could be a number of things unsettling her. My DD was the same, I just co-slept, placed myself sideways so she could feed and went to sleep. The only way to survive her constant feeding!