Anyone else got an amazing non-sleeping baby?!

[cruisemum1]

Anyone? btw ds 19 weeks.

Yep I seem to own one of these too.
Amazing isnt it!
Ds is 21 weeks.

I have magical non-sleeping Boy
He is 11 months

He sleeps during the day, just not when I want him to at night.

got any remedies? or am i asking the wrong people?????

I'm just assuming he will sort himself out in his own time.

So yes, you are asking the wrong people!

cruisemum1 is your ds breastfed?? how much sleep does he get during the day? is he waking to feed at night or just not sleeping at all? do you think he is eating enough during the day? Had similar problem with dd who is now 6 months and for us it was sorting out daytime routine (naps, feeds etc) that helped her settle at night.

yes

had two

honestly, it will get better

I know it is vile

if he is your only one-can you sleep when he does?

(oh I wanted to frigging hit everyone who said that but...its the only way through it. Unless you want to sleep train)

dd is just starting to sleep through at 18 months.

ds started to sleep through at the same age. Now he sleeps like a log (he's 3.5)

sar123 - yes, he is bf. just wakes for a suck i think. he was doing 8 - 10 hours at night solid sleep prior to his cold about 3 weeks ago. his daytime naps are erratic. some days great some days pants . very bad at the moment 30 - 4-mins each 3 - 4 times a day. I have got him used to napping in his cot since friday hoping this would help but no joy .
filly - i have dd age 9. so cannot rest! in any case, his naps are so short that it is barely time to have a coffee in peace!
am thinking of weaning soon in hope that will help....

sar - he wakes every 1 - 2 hrs. or at least that's what he did last nite

sar and filly - my theory is that he has just forgotten how to settle himself to sleep and can only get back to sleep by using me as a dummy.

ah I see

hmm

have you come across Elizabeth Pantley? I cannot remember what her book is called, but its pretty good I think. Ways to get your child to stop bf to sleep w/o controlled crying.

19 wks might be too young for that though...can't remember...

Yes.

DS2 doesn't need sleep in the way that normal human beings do.

He's 12mo and shows NO sign of sleeping through - or for longer than five hours (that's on a very good night). He doesn't nap well either. He's slept through once - the day after he was 4mo.

Cheerful chap though - lovely baby to be around. I just wish I saw his eyelids more often

No Cry Sleep Solution and DS2 is immune to that too.

I'm just hoping that it's because he's a genius and he can keep me in luxury when he invents a cure for the common cold when he's six, or something.

Yes, DS is 16 months and still wakes up a lot. Last night it was every 2 hours

He has slept through the night only 3 times since he was born.

He is, however, turning into a good little napper... about bloody time!

I like Hunker's genius idea, maybe mine is one too

DS1 was 19mo before he went through the night reliably though.

And I stopped feeding him at night when he was 10mo. He just drank water instead.

DS2 pushes any suggestion of a beaker away forcefully and wails till I feed him. Or he stays resolutely awake and looks at me with big brown eyes till I feed him.

I figure he won't be doing it forever though, so I just nork him. Tis easier in the short run and we'll move house so he has his own room and I can use earplugs soon

mamama, it helps while away the small hours wondering what clever thing DS2 will bring to society...

I am sorry hunker

mrs pantley was crap for us too, though i know there is a thread on it somewhere

the truth is...dd has JUST slept through the night. And by "through" I mean 5 fecking hours

and she is 18 mo...

filly ands others - i got the NCSS and tried to apply it. it doesnt work

ah

there is a support thread for it somewhere

people keep trying it and saying how great it is

I think some babies just don't sleep very well...

cruisemum i just replied to your post on ncss thread!were doing mix now of ncss and pu/pd.its going well but need to lose the bottle as by going well i mean hes managing to have a nap now which he wasnt and hes going to bed ok but waking atleast 6 times a night ,and falling to sleep with bottle in his mouth.and wants to be at 5am which i wouldnt mind if he slept all night!hes 1.

God this thread depresses me. I'm living with the vain hope that my 4 monther is going to sleep when she's weaned. Please stop shattering my illusions!

Dd started sleeping through at about 10 months. Then she had a couple of months at around 18mo, when she was awful at night again. And then she was fine till nearly 3yo (when ds was born) when the disturbed nights started again.

Ds started sleeping through in December, aged 22 months. Dd has decided to sleep through as well.

This last month has been such bliss that ... we've decided to ttc no. 3.

We have tried everything to kept them to sleep over the last 4.5 years, and I concluded that I should stop trying to fix their sleeping problem and work out how to survive until they grew out of it.

My main survival technique is to kick dh, mutter "your turn" and stick my head under the pillow.

My next baby is going to be the Incredible Sleeping Baby. Honest.

Good luck.

Oh, and weaning didn't help either of them to sleep better. Leave it till they grab the food out of your hands, weaning is too much hard work to start early!

most frustrating thing for me is that he WAS sleeping thru until this frigging cold. now he has got into the hanbit of night waking and the only way to fix it imo is to put up with some screaming which i dont really want

kitty/ginger - we must stop meeting like this?! Are we all looking for a miracle or what?
I live in hope that tonight will be better. Every night.
ds extremely tired today. Had three naps totalling 1hr 50mins. Please let him sleep