4 month & 22 month taking turns at waking in night. No sleep for us...

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Any suggestions are welcome. We live in a 2 bed house, our 22 month in his room baby in ours. Baby breastfed. Our 22 month old is a very light sleeper, most noises wake him up. Our Baby is waking up around every 1-2 hours (every 45 mins on a bad night), wont really settle unless allowed to nurse but isn't really hungry and refuses a dummy. The older one tends to wake up just as i've managed to settle the baby and cries until we go in and settle him. I'm starting to loose the plot! help...!

hi sorry i dont have any suggestions but didnt want you to think noone cared. u must be exhausted.
hopefully someone be along soon with some good advice.

We have 11 months between our 2 kids. Now have DD - 2yrs 3 months and DS 16 months.

First month was a nightmare as DS wanted to wake throughout the night. Basically solution was we put him downstairs and only went to him if he was actually due a feed (every 4 hours I think at that time)

Both kids soon got the hang of it, and DS soon was back to sleeping upstairs! Obviously it depends on your house layout as to whether this approach works, but I would definately say it worked for us. I can't cope without my sleep!

co-sleep with baby?

You poor thing, this happened a few times for us (we have a 17mo age diff) in the first few weeks and it is exhausting isn't it. Luckily our elder ds soon learnt to sleep through it, and now both usually sleep through.
Sorry don't really have any advice but hope things improve for you soon xx

thank you for your lovely messages -
think the co-sleeping might be our only option is to co-sleep. (unless anyone else has any other suggestions)