Hi,
My almost 10 month old baby wakes up several times a night. Most of the time every hour or 2 hours. The most he's ever slept is 3hrs but that's only been a hand full of times. He’s always been a poor sleeper. I gave it some time initially and understood that there could be several reasons such as teething, growth spurt or sleep regressions etc but by now he should be sleeping a good few solids hours right?
He’s bedtime is 8pm ish and wakes up around 8am. We have tried changing his bedtime to earlier, later, bathing every night, sound machine and a few more other things to see if any of that might help his sleep but again no luck.
I have Co-slept for a while and he still wakes up several times. I am now currently sleep training him in his cot.
We noticed he’ll sleep with his mouth open sometimes ( tongue is at the roof of mouth) so we went to GP. GP barely looked him over and eyed him over saying he’s breathing is fine and the sleeping issue is more development/ behaviour thing and he needs to learn to self soothe. Dismissed my worry about mouth breathing (I read online could be oral dysfunction) and said ‘there’s no medical issue. Let’s not create one’ when I’ve pressed further (previously been seen and told no tongue tie)
Currently been sleeping training him. NO cry out method. We put him down sleepy but awake in his cot. He will cry and scream and we’ve tried patting, shushing singing etc but he will scream and cry until picked up. Will calm him down and put him down in his cot and again it’s the same cycle until he finally falls asleep. Sometimes this takes up to an hour and then an hour later he’s awake and crying.He’s breastfed and I only feed him once in the hopes that it will get him to sleep longer (it doesn’t)
We’ve been doing this sleep training for about 2 weeks and a half and currently no results yet. He’s still waking up several times and crying.
I have looked into a sleep consultant but I can’t afford that at all unfortunately.
During the day he’s having 2 naps. Again it’s a nightmare getting him to sleep in his cot and takes up to an hour and then he’ll sleep and wake up an hour later.
He’s otherwise such a happy baby. He’s such a good, content baby. He’s on 3 solids and fully breastfed. I love him so so so much.
I’m just a very tired mama and need some advice and tips please!
Im not looking for judgement so please refrain from commenting at all if you have something mean to say.