I honestly feel like I'm going mad.
9 month old. Up till about 6 weeks ago we were co sleeping, feeding every 2-3 hrs and waking early. It got to the point where he wouldn't sleep without me at all and I couldn't take it anymore. Naps were in the car or being bounced by me.
We got a sleep consultant in. He has slept through the night 7 times in the last 2 weeks. Shen he wakes he usually settles himself back.He napped in his cot happily - one day last week he had an hour in the morning and 2 after lunch.
However he still wakes early - 5.30 ish, yesterday 4.40 and wouldn't go back. Consultant suggested a quick nap at 7am ish to help the overtirendness. But since Saturday something has gone wrong. He is only managing a sleep cycle in his cot even after lunch. He is also not going for the 7am catnap. Yesterday in desperation I drove him round for 2 hours for his lunchtime nap and he slept the whole time - but I have to be careful because even stopping at a traffic light can wake him up and he doesn't go back.
Today he woke at 5.40. Refused cat nap. Put in cot after breakfast at 8.35. Didnt settle. I went in at 8.45 - he had filled his nappy (3rd time today already). Eventually asleep at 8.55. Fully expect him to only manage 40 mins (consultant says he can have up to an hour).
I'm just fed up of trying to get this right. Fed up of early wakings. Fed up of spending my life trying to get him to sleep, changing his nappy or wiping down the bloody high chair.
I don't really expect anyone to know what to say I just had to write it all down.