For the past 4 maybe 5 nights (I've lost track of days now) I've had around 4ish hours sleep each night.
I have 2 LO's and the transition from 1-2 has been hard! DD (2 1/2 years old) sleeps well now, not at first. But since DS (9 months) has been around she has been waking in the night wanting a story or milk or to say hello when she hears the floorboards creek when we go to bed. White noise has been introduced and solved this.
DS will not go to sleep in his cot, he's a big baby and completely grown out of his Moses basket. I'm breastfeeding and co sleeping. As much as I love doing these, I want him to sleep in his room. I long for a solid routine. He will only fall asleep suckling. Even is he doesn't feed he just wants that comfort. Every time I try to settle him in his cot he just cries and then starts screaming. I've tried to leave him for a couple of minutes to see is he can 'settle himself' but he just stands up in the cot screaming and it's heartbreaking. I can feed him to sleep and sometimes he will sleep for 20/30 minutes. I've put white noise in his room too... little effect.
During the day I try to put him in his cot when he looks tired, just screams. His DS won't leave him alone when I'm trying to get him to sleep. I put toys in her room to distract her (watch her on her baby monitor) whilst I sort him but she still end up running in and trying to jump in his cot when I'm trying to put him in so it just fails anyway.
The routine has been thrown out the window in general over the last few months. Moved into a new house just before I had him and we keep having to move out due to all the issues that didn't show up on the survey. Now I'm struggling to do a routine.
If you've read it all then thank you! Sorry if any of it doesn't make sense. I'm tired and have a sleeping baby on me so I can't sleep either.
All advice is desperately welcomed!