getting the little blighter to STAY asleep!!

[samnbabes]

OK, so first, bit of history - ds (now 2 1/2) was a rubbish sleeper, so we were determined we wouldn't put up with any nonense from dd2 ... and 5 months in, she woke 5 times last night & spent most of the night in our bed - how did that happen??!!

Wouldn't mind her being in the bed if she slept better there, but she def wakes more - smells that lovely milk right next door...!!

So ... feel she's too early for cc - but cc experts, feel free to put me right on that one - what else can people recommend??

I should say, she settles herself to sleep & for her naps with no fuss at all, so the sleep assocs are only up the swannee in the middle of the night. But this also means there isn't anything we can easily do to get her back to sleep -eg patting her in her cot just seems to really p* her off!! The only things that work are feeding (b/f) & cuddling in bed (she lay on her side hugging my face last night - almost forgave her the fact that it was 3am!!!)

Thx all...

[samnbabes]

Thx mumpbump - she has almost got the hang of bottle now, so will try the water trick - had forgotten that one. She starting spitting dummy at about 3 months, which we'd used occ before that, but water may be slightly more rewarding!

And Stevie ... sure some mn-eter out there has an easy, quick, failsafe solution that you haven't tried....

[Mumpbump]

Could try giving her a bottle of water to suck on when she wakes up - I think the comfort of sucking can help them settle down again, at least it works more often than not with my baby boy. UK recommendation is not to use CC before 6 months, but Aussie apparently say after 6 weeks...

[stevie74]

If you find an answer let me know, my DD1, 2yrs & DD2 10mths are both bad sleepers & I'm exhausted