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7 mo awake in evenings - advice?

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Monkeybrain10 · 30/01/2015 23:34

Hi. In the evenings our 7 mo ds has his dinner, bath, story , booby then falls asleep on me, I transfer him to Cot where he sleeps for sbout 30 mins. (I shovel dinner down). Then he wakes. ..If I give him more booby sometimes we do another half hour but he just wakes up again (if we leave him or try pat and shush, singing lullabies, or being present but silent, he just shreaks the house down and gets so beside himself that he chokes and splutters and then I give in and cuddle him. If I take him downstairs he is happy with us on the sofa and will eventually go back to sleep. If I try to put him back in cot he shreaks the house down again.
so now we're pretty much Co sleeping most of the night (I'm too tired to keep on putting him back in his cot as he usually wakes up within minutes of me drifting off and wakes up dp. ..on work nights).
It feels very wrong to let him cry...its so distressing. He just doesn't seem to sleep.much (he still wakes every couple of hours when Co sleeping usually wanting feeds)
He's generally a very happy boy in the day so can't complain but I guess I'm wondering how many years til I can sleep.more than a two hour stint!!?
How do we find the holy grail of sleeping through ?!

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kmini · 31/01/2015 16:15

My DS went through the exact same thing at 4 months. I'm reading no cry sleep solution. I have had some small success with it, but he is still not great. It might be helpful for you too.

Monkeybrain10 · 31/01/2015 17:11

Thanks kmini. Leaving them to cry seems not only cruel (and seems to go against every natural instinct !) But it doesn't work as within minutes he's so upset there's nor a hope in hell of him self settling. Will have a look at the no cry sleep solution...sounds good !
Just to note....Whilst he'll wake up as soon as we put him in his cot, by contrast, He always falls asleep instantly that he hits our bed!!!! Funny that eh :-D

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kmini · 31/01/2015 19:04

So frustrating! My DS is exactly the same. Nothing but being picked up soothes him most of the time.

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