SIFTW is 1yr old today. Were you getting more or less sleep this time last year.

[gingerninja]

The 'sleep is for the weak' thread was started exactly a year ago today for a bunch of us with increadibly none sleeping 4 month olds.

Some of the original members have graduated and some of us still suffer a little but on the whole the story is a positive one. I've done nothing to 'train' my 16 month DD to sleep but she has on her own, little by little, made improvements and is most of the time ok. (unless ill or teething) so one year on we're sleeping much more than we were this time last year.

There is a light out there fellow suffers. Please share your positive stories for those that are blinded by sleep deprivation.

I should have been on that thread as my DD2 is 16mo now, but i didnt find MN till early feb and that thread always looked a bit cliquey. Mind you i feel that about all the long-running threads, just me.
And no, I'm not getting more sleep now....

Shame SM, you'd have been very welcome. Long running threads can feel like that but we've had lots of new comers, some still with us and others passing through. Thing is, we've all tried lots of different things so can sometimes offer advice but mostly it's a great support if you're just feeling really overwhelmed with it all and everyone in real life seems to have babies that sleep.

I popped in from time to time to SIFTW (DS is now 17 months). Nights are far from perfect, but the general trend has been positive. He sleeps thro more and more often, altho by no means every night.

I'm more of a gentle nudger than a hardcore sleep trainer I think...

Always good to know that there are others out there, sharing your pain

Another SIFTW visitor here (ImBarryScott).

The thread has been an invaluable source of support over the year.

Things have got loads better, in our case due to sleep training. Sleep training is not for everyone, I know, and I have huge admiration for those who let time take its course. It's fab to hear that for the most part things get better all by themselves .

SIFTW is great - I'm a fledgling zombie as my DS is only 6 months but I've had great support from the folks in there and lots of advice and experiences.

This time last year I was sleeping 12 hours most nights - that's what early pregnancy does to you ... and I thought that was tough

Anyway, I'm a bit of a softie and quite lazy so I tend to be a "path of least resistance" type, but my return to working F/T shortly will be a serious test. I'm sure I'll get help if I need it, whatever I end up doing - or not doing - from the SIFTW experts though

thanks ginger, sorry if i sounded a bit unfriendly. CC worked wonders with DD1 at 3mo but things are more chaotic now so i never got round to it with DD2 till recently. She's a livelier kid all round so not sure if that has a lot to do with it.
I nearly had it cracked last week but now she has a cold so wakes about 12 and ends up in our bed - path of least resistance...
I'm hoping she'll settle soon and start sleeping through in the next year...

I popped into the siftw thread and everyone was really lovely. I started out as trying desperately to do some sleep training as my lo from birth until 4 months woke hourly....

In the end I nearly went mad with sleep deprivation, being bombarded with 'well meaning advice' and desperately trying to get lo to adhere to a routine that I thought would make her sleep better . Luckily at the brink of madness I decided I would return to my hippy roots and just be mellow about it all. That meant doing everything that the 'books' tell you not to do - so I coslept, breastfed and rocked to sleep and stamped on the word 'routine'. Needless to say 9 months on (she's now 13 months) lo has her own little 'routine' - sleep isn't perfect but loads better, more importantly I'm getting enough sleep.

By the way - my friend who's lo was a perfect sleeper and kept telling me that I must be doing something wrong with mine - now has a new 5 month old - who is exactly like my lo and she's now apologizing profusely .

Hi everyone, good to see you all and glad that for Mae, Perkin and Reesie you're seeing improvements. See IARCFB, your time will come, your time will come. In the mean time you're doing fantastically and I'm sure the return to work will be less stressful than you anticipate.

Wonder if Cruisemum, PavtheCat, Gibbon in a Ribbon, Kbaby, and any of the other originals are still around?

Shitemum, (I'm sure you're not!) That's the thing, you think you've got it sorted then, teething starts. I've no doubt that we'll get all the teeth then nightmares will start or somesuch. Ho hum, I live in hope too

I wasn't posting on the thread then but I wish I had a positive story. My ds2 is 12 months and still sleeping like a newborn. Up every 1 and a half hours or so in the evening and then 3-4 times a night sometimes more.

OMG i actually got 7 hours uninterrupted sleep last night!

Not a great night last night, but we're getting there Hurrah for SIFTW