My nine month old DS cosleeps due to always being a truly awful sleeper. The four month sleep regression nearly broke me but following a slight improvement for about six weeks where we even had a few nights of only 3 wake ups, the eight month regression is still going strong.
He wakes 8-10 times a night.
This I can just about tolerate if I go to bed when he does. What I can't stand is the comfort sucking he insists on to get back to sleep. He doesn't latch on properly, or he does but then pulls off to flutter suck on the end of my nipple and although it doesn't hurt it's incredibly irritating and over time is making me sore.
I have been doing the pantley pull off for months,, unlatching and pressing his chin and although it eventually works, more often than not he just gets utterly furious and screams with rage and thrashes about.
Its making me so angry and frustrated. Will not take a dummy, no way Jose.
He naps at 9.30 for 30-45 minutes then again at 13.00 for 2 hours although I usually have to resettle him a couple of times to get this. Bedtime is 7pm and he falls asleep quickly on the boob. He wakes at anything from 5am to 6.30.
He eats loads of solids and is on the 75th centile. He is an extremely happy baby during the day.
I spent two awful nights trying to only feed him back to sleep every three hours and rock him the rest of the time before putting him in the cot next to my bed but I was exhausted. He cried alot and after rocking, holding till he was asleep and then putting him in his cot, he often woke up straight away.
I always thought I'd never sleep train if it involved any crying but he's crying anyway and all this is pretty extreme isn't it?
I had a glimmer of hope two nights ago when for three nights in a row he reduced to only five wakings and I felt we were turning a corner. I was a different person when not utterly shattered! I started planning to start trying to get him in his cot again but the last two nights it's back to hourly wakings.
PLEASE HELP!