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Another shitty sleeper...

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Echomama · 04/10/2019 03:59

Just a rant really. But advice always welcome
My oldest who now sleeps well used to wake every 1-2.5hours until I stopped nursing her at just over 15 months. Usually I got a few hours of broken sleep. But I was a ftm so knew no different and had no other real responsibilities other than a house and animals and all sleep training or cio was wasted on her.

Along came number two, who woke every 3 hours until she was about a month old, then she did an 8 hour stint woke and fed, then back for three hours. Until she was 3 months old and we took her to France. She started waking every two ish-3 hours. Which wasn't so bad. She kept this up when we got back home. Now we're back in France and we're waking every freaking hour again at 7months
I know this won't last for ever, I know it's only a phase. But I can't freaking function.

Our oldest doesn't nap ever, and hasn't since I was pregnant again. And the youngest is now turning into a very distracted day time sleeper and will only go down if all is silent (except white noise) and dimly lit. So when dd1 comes charging in with her "whispering" the whole nap has gone to pot!
I can't do any form of sleep training because the cottage we have until hour new house is ready is too small and even the smallest noise wakes dd1. So I'm up at the slightest noise.
Doesn't help I'm a bit of insomniac so by the time I finally get to sleep I've got to be up again.
Half tempted to wean her but then here goes mum guilt that I didn't feed her as long as I did her sister.
Blaah
Anyway. After two hours awake shes finally gone back to sleep, so here's to getting 40 minutes before it's day time for everybody..... 😴

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HenSolo · 04/10/2019 04:03

Ah hope you’re asleep now. I’m sitting next to ds2 who is nearly three but decides 3am is morning time so I’ve been trying to get him back to sleep for an hour so far. He’s wide awake. I’ve had two shitty sleepers and have no advice but oodles of sympathy....

Kiwiinkits · 04/10/2019 04:56

If she’s 7 months then she’ll be well into solid food and not drinking as much milk anyway, so don’t feel guilty. You’ve done a great job getting her this far. So wean if you want. All the early gut bacteria / immunity stuff has been passed on to her already so it’s diminishing returns to scale from breastfeeding now anyway.

Echomama · 04/10/2019 08:47

I got no extra sleep 😂 just as I started to doze she woke up again. Finally got her settled at about 6am our time and then her sister woke up for the day. Typically little one has now been asleep for a solid 4 hours..... 😑
@HenSolo thank you for the sympathy, I'm feeling for your 3am wake ups! Hopefully he figures it out soon!
@Kiwiinkits she's been on solids since she was 4 months, little chunky food monster. You'd think she'd feed less on me but it's made no difference. Although saying that she never fed much from me anyway it feels like. Feeds half the amount her very petit sister used to. Going to start the night weens when the other half has done his weekend visit so I don't disturb his sleep! 😂

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