Hi all I am desperate for some advice to try and get our 6.5 months old to sleep. Since he has been born he has only slept through 6 times in total. I am so tired from lack of sleep (I haven't had a proper night sleep in more than a year due to SPD pain in pregnancy) sometimes I feel I will drop dead in the street.
He can wake from 3 to 7 times a night. At the moment he is slightly better he only wakes about once at 3.00 am on the dot.Last night he was up for more than two hours, then by the time I get back to sleep the alarm rings again and I have to get up to go to work.
We did try control crying last week. He cried two nights (first night 1h30mn, next night 45 mn) and then slept through for three nights in a row but now it is back to square one.
Before we tried control crying, he used to wake up at least three times. We stopped giving him milk during the night about 3 weeks ago.
We have tried patting him to sleep, rocking him, walking him in his pram etc..
Are there any books I could try? Any routine? Any advice? I am desperate really.
Don't want any advice on co-sleeping though. I am a very very bad and light sleeper and on the few occasions DS came in our bed out of desperation, I couldn't sleep a wink through fear of rolling on him or something, so it is really not for me.
Sorry for long post