Hi,
My LO is 20 months old and always been up every 2-3 hours at night. She breastfeeds to sleep and through the night so I thought this was our problem.
I have always been very conscious and stressed about over heating and always followed the charts on the sleep bag she wears.
I would feel her back/chest and she was an ok temperature but I wouldn’t say cosy and warm. Anyway - I changed her to a warmer sleep bag - that being a 3.5 tog! Yes a 3.5!! She started sleeping 6 hours one feed then back down for the rest of the night!
Sometimes maybe 2/3 wakes but it was a DRASTIC change!
It has always been easier to keep her in my room due to the breastfeeding, and everyone says they just want to be close to you. Her cot bed is next to me with the side off so we almost cosleep in a way.
I am pregnant again and decided it was time to possibly try her own room and a bigger floor bed.
I slept with her for 2-3 days… wake ups remained the same.
Night one alone…… SHE SLEPT ALL NIGHT….Night two.. ALL NIGHT…
We are over a week in and she has continued to do so.
It is so clear to me now I was disturbing her and probably her dad’s snoring!
She has been teething for a day or so, woke once in the night for some comfort then back to sleep for the night.
I feel like a terrible mother keeping her with me for so long when I’ve obviously been the one disturbing her. But you do what you think is right at the time.
I hope this post helps anyone out there struggling it’s so so hard with baby/toddler sleep I wish I had tried these options sooner x