I’m exhausted. 2 kids- one in school, the other 11 months. Working full time. Breastfeeding. Baby slept through the night at 8 weeks but regressed spectacularly at around 6 months and has had good and bad phases since. She’s in our room in a cot as we have only 2 bedrooms (moving to a bigger place after Christmas thank goodness) and I don’t think it’s fair to put her in with her big sister when she’s waking constantly.
We have a good bedtime routine- dinner, bath, breastfeed downstairs, story upstairs in sleeping bag and into cot. Settles quickly. At 645-7pm. However any time from 10-midnight she will wake up and will absolutely not settle. From then on she wakes every 90mins-2 hours. Screams to be fed- I don’t mind feeding her overnight but not constantly! I also wouldn’t mind co-sleeping but she thrashes around, wakes constantly and claws at me and shouts until I feed her.
I don’t understand why she wakes non-stop when we’ve achieved the magical self settling at bed time and it’s very hard to not feed her and send my husband to her when she can see me! She doesn’t take a dummy or a bottle.
Any suggestions? I’m really quite concerned about crashing my car or making big mistakes at work. I know she will sleep eventually but I need a little more sleep sooner than that!