Don't want to do CC, too tired for GW....so when can I expect DS to start sleeping of his own accord?

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He is 7 months old. His sleeping is pretty atrocious (on average wakes every 2 hours and I'm too tired to do anything other than BF back to sleep). He starts off in his cot and ends up in bed by about 3am. I just wondered what anyone's experience is of waiting for them to grow out of it? Will I still be feeding him 5 times a night when he's 2 (please no!)? There has been no real improvement in his sleeping since he was 3 months old!

phdlife- i know this is not a long term solution, but could you put your lo in a buggy to sleep during the day? it is not ideal but the rocking (which you should only have to do until he is asleep ) may lull hinm to sleep so you can have some arms free time! my ds was like this (i think most of them are tbh) and has only just started sleeping in his cot in the day (he is nearly 9mths but it did mean that i could move freely around the house for a while. hth

lovely idea cruisemum, but a) our flat is too small; the buggy would take up all the spare floorspace in the front room, and b) he only sometimes goes to sleep in it. Sometimes when we're out I've had to pick him up and cuddle him!

we did this about four weeks ago, when he was about 8 and half months. whilst i think the cc helped, i think the thing that made the most difference was not picking him up when he went into him and instead encouraging him that he was ok and safe in his cot. i think he just got used to the idea that his cot was a good place to be for a nap. maybe its a sort of combination of cc and gradual withdrawl. i guess he's at an age where he could appreciate the reassurance.

phdlife - your ds is so much younger so i've no idea if the above would work. but with hindsight i wish we had tried to get our ds to have naps not in our arms much earlier.