Many of you have followed my numerous sleep threads to do with ds2 (now almost 20 months!!!) and his poor sleeping.
In August, my lovely mother in law helped us to crack night time feeding and he hasn't fed in the night since then. He is better in many ways:
- no night time feeding
will sometimes* settle for dh
- no evenign waking so I have a bit of a ife again
- less waking in the night generally.
However, a few times a week, he will go from around 7:30 ish until 5am which is brilliant consiering what he used to be like.
The rest of the time, he might wake at 1am ish but will settle fairly quickly. I leave him for a minute to see whether he settles, then I will go in if he hasnt at which point he will lie down and I leave after a minute or so.
But he always wakes sometime between 4 and 5 and that is pretty much it. He is shattered and needs more sleep but he is so obsessed with having a feeding and screams, yells, cries, head butts his cot. You get the idea. Persuading him to go back to sleep in almost impossible. And even if he does go back to sleep, he naps on and off until about 6 at which point we are up for the day.
So I am going to take the plunge.
DS1 is having a few nights away from Sunday with his grand parents and I am off for a week.
Have never done controlled crying and need to finally persuade myself.
Have tried literally everything.
Is there a gentle version? I invisage it only being needed for this 5am waking really......
Sorry it was long