We're still not sleeping

[Meepmoop]

New thread for those whose babies are avoiding sleeping through.

My DS is now 11 months old today..

Argh. This is the worst night yet. He just keeps waking! Why??? And DH is on a night out so prob be too hungover to help tomorrow morning.

I can only assume it's teething? I don't know what else to do. I just wish he'd give me a break for once and bloody sleep!

I haven’t posted in a while but had a bad night here last night. DS is getting over a tummy bug and has teeth coming through so I can’t blame him but woke every hour or two then was up from 4 - he was absolutely exhausted but would not go to sleep. Feeling really fed up with it this morning.

Can I join? We’re hopeless at sleep. I feel like I could get a degree in sleep theory and application but none of it seems to actually work for us! And of course there’s always a relative that asks if I’ve considered the temperature.. etc. If only it were that easy! 😀

Lol @STFU I'm exactly the same! I've become known as a bit of a sleep guru amongst my friends, yet I'm not getting any sleep I've done that much research into it. And the conclusion I've reached is...my babies just don't like to sleep! They're both high needs (although DD is now 3 and sleeping much better), especially DS. That boy is hyper! Which is lovely but also....please just chill for a moment son

Right now I'm watching him crawl around and trying to destroy his sister's book collection. Haven't the energy to stop him. Even though it was a really bad night, he still woke at 5. It's a mess.

Hello everyone :)

Just wanted to add that I have some non sleepers aswell. Twin boys that turned 11 months on Friday. Well at 12 weeks old they slept through for a month, what a great month that was. They’ve never slept through since. Either me or DP are up with them about 4 times a night. One tends to sleep through or just wakes about once, the other wakes repeatedly and always ends up in the bed with us. Things had improved until this heat wave and it’s Just got worse and worse.

It makes me depressed, I feel fine in the morning but when it comes to bed time I get so anxious about going to sleep as I worry about how many times I will be up xxx

Just wanted to join in...after another night where she was up 5 or 6 times and then ready to start the day at 5am (5 AM!! ) I found this thread when trying to find something online that'd reassure me I wasn't alone. So thank you for reassuring me I'm not alone, at least. I'd read a few threads on other forums saying 'oh, by 10 months baby should be sleeping straight through'....yeah, okaaaaay. I'm sure the heat isn't helping but arrrrrgh. I'm so so tired.

Every time things start to settle and we get a few nights of him sleeping 7-6 with just 2/3 short wake ups things then go back to shit.

Last three nights he's woken at 3 or 4 and taken 1-2 hours to go back down and still been up before 7.

Hi everyone! Well, back to the UK, its so incredibly hot! Rain, cool weather, come back! As many of you felt in your sleepless nights, it really doesn't help!! She was sleeping better abroad than in here! Now DD just turns belly down non stop, then cries because can't turn the other way, then doesn't stop moving even if I try to get her to sleep in my arms, she has been fighting sleep so much. I have no idea how many wake ups... So so many. Last night was really bad. Again. And again. Tomorrow she starts settling sessions in nursery. Oh God!

With so many changes I haven't had the strength to go back to sleep training... Just gave her calpol. Teeth seem to bother her, but really. so don't think it's just that. She has been so clingy during the day! She keeps throwing herself at me! She has been biting and pinching my nipples, auch!! After crying desperately and moving like if she is possessed she asked for the breast. I guess it will be sane as yesterday. Falling asleep exhausted on the breast and waking up all night 30 times. Not seeing the light in the end of the tunnel... 2 weeks to go back to work

Little demon refuses to sleep without a blanket but it's a thousand degrees and he can't sleep when he's hot so I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. Result: endless screaming.

I've got DS asleep after a sweaty hour and a half battle but every time I move he wakes up absolutely screaming and I have to do it all over again. I just want to get him in his cot and then we will both be cool

and he's in. I went for the chuck him and run approach and touch wood hasn't woken up yet.. I've just managed a quick shower and am
in a just changed bed. Hopefully I'll get to enjoy it not holding my breathe yet though

Good luck Meepmoop

I’ve tried not to complain about heat (until last night’s summer noise rant) but tonight is finally too much, it’s still 29 degrees in here!

I've tried putting tinfoil on the windows after 3 nights of 4.30 starts. I look like I'm growing something illegal but I'm hoping it works! Hope everyone is getting some sleep.

Very interested to hear if that works tealandteal I’m considering doing it myself! Fingers crossed for a lie in 😂

@tealandteal that's awesome! :D
Sleep is going pretty terrible in here. But with the start of nursery, the heat and so much light in her room, I have no strength to restart sleep training.
I'm in the process of darkening the room, bought a blackout curtain but run out of velcro. Weather seems to be cooling down - hoping and praying. And then I'll start sleep training.
Last night I had to sleep with her in my bed. Still pretty bad.
Tonight I've been trying since 19h00 to get her to sleep. She is exhausted but won't give in to sleep! WHY?!!! kept crying and moving, then moved to saying goodbye over and over again, and grabbing my nose and scratching me. I've put her in the cot now. Asking God to please pity me and give me a few hours of sleep. She needs it so much as well!! She was so tired today, and with eye bags!! Babies shouldn't have eye bags! They have nothing to do! Just learn how to sleep already!
I got so frustrated after all that time.... DH kept along what's wrong "what do you think is wrong?! Don't you see what's happening?!" and he kept asking. She won't sleep! It's been 10 months! I am so so tired! So anxious! I never thought my life would be like this.
I knew babies were a tough business but this one owns the business! She is the boss!
Argh... Sorry for venting. Incredible upset tonight

My last child was a nightmare she didn't sleep through until she was 2 1/2 years old. We went between numerous wake ups a night to her being awake 2-3 hours in the middle of the night. The big difference for me was when she went from a toddler bed to a single bed. The change was phenomenal. Now at 3 1/2 she sleeps on average 8-7am 5/6 nights a week. We still have that one or two nights she wakes up but it's easy to settle her and takes a few minutes a couple of times a night. I honestly felt broken and the lack of sleep was horrific. It does get easier and there will be sleep one day I promise

It finally happened! Put him down at 6.30 and didn't wake until 5.20 for a 10 minute feed then back to sleep until 6! Would definitely recommend the tinfoil on the windows, it's pitch black in his room.

Ha we were the same @adviceonthepox with DD, she's 3 and now generally sleeps through. But then we had another non sleeper

Oh wow @teal! That's amazing! Tinfoil ftw...

That's great news @tealandteal

My DS is 13 months and does not sleep either!! This heat is not helping! He is in our room as we are living with the in laws at the minute and we are having to have a fan on for him and I can not sleep through the noise of the fan!! He slept through for one of the first times at the weekend and I did not sleep because of the fan!!!!

@caughtinthemiddle2 that's ironically funny! How frustrating?!! Have you managed to get another good night and have some rest?
Well my DD (10 months) had a 30 min morning nap and a 40 min afternoon nap. Before each nap she puts loads of fight, actually hurts me, pulling, scratching, pinching and bitting my nipples... She seems to want to force me to feed her to sleep. If I do it before story time she won't have the breast and she will hurt me... Can such a little mind conceive such a plan??! after 1am there was very little sleep for both of us...
Tomorrow she stays 1hr alone in nursery. I'm thinking I won't have my life back until she is 2/3 years old and that my career will be ruined because I simply can't sleep/rest.
I am so irritable. So upset all the time
I've put the blackout curtains in the room today, fingers crossed it will genuinely help!please!

I'm bored of baby sleep. Thinking about it all the time, having to get up with him.

He's still waking for 2 hour stints in the night and it's slowly driving me crazy. I've ordered some wireless earphones so I can listen to an audiobook and get out of my head for those hours.

@Meepmoop worth a try! I feel the same. Obsessed with DD sleep. It's like I' m not even the same person anymore. So tired, irritable, cranky all the time. I miss the old me. Maybe I'll see her again in a few years.

@Bartos it is so frustrating!!! We had an ok night last night as in 4 wake ups instead of the usual 7-8!

All I think about is ds sleep and how many hours I may get before I have to get up and work full time! Its so hard! Plus all anybody ever asks me is "is he sleeping through yet"!! NO HE IS NOT!!! Haha thank god for threads like this because I honestly think I am the only person I know with a non sleeping baby!!