Hi, just wondering if one of you amazing mums has a magic wand to make my 11month old son sleep please??!!!? I'm on week two of him waking 4-5 times a night and I'm exhausted to the point of being so run down I'm getting ill. He's never been a great sleeper but would go through a week of sleeping through them a week of a few wake ups a night. I could handle that, just, as the times he slept through I could get a half recharge!
I've considered teething, wind, growth spurt, separation anxiety, temperature, bedding, pjs, lighting, hunger, naps during day.
He wakes, screams until I go in, then he'll sit there looking at me , sometimes smiling (which is kinda cute, but not what I need)! I've tried comforting or patting him, not picking him up but laying him back down etc but he just screams. I'll pick him up and he'll start to drop off almost instantly so I'll try to put him down but he'll scream. He will go to sleep on me, but then I can't sleep. I'll put him back in his cot after about an hour and he'll sleep but only for about an hour. I've tried letting him cry. Nothing is working for us.
He has been a bit snuffly and sounds a little congested which I've tried
a little calpol and some baby Vicks on his chest, sleeping bag or pjs.
My son does insist on touching my hands as he drops off to sleep initially at night or for naps, maybe I need to try to stop that so I'm not there when he eventually falls to sleep and so he won't need it to self sooth in the night.
I have no family or friends around me and my husband works away a lot. Im crying each time I have to go into him as I'm so desperate to get some proper sleep. My patience is shredded, I'm down a lot of the time, moody, sex...can't even consider it. Totally miserable and exhausted.