My DD is 8 weeks and won't sleep AT ALL unless on a person. So she is carried about all day and we co-sleep at night, which I never wanted to do, waking up several times for feeds (whenever she wakes up in the night I tend to feed her without really paying attention to the time, as I am usually too asleep myself to even tell the time...). (She is 100% breastfed, BTW).
This situation is starting to get me down a bit. DP is consigned to the spare room as there isn't room in the bed for the three of us, and she is huge: lugging her about all day is really doing my back in.
I don't really know what to do. I used to think that she would become more independent as she got older, but if anything she is getting more resistant to the idea of sleeping on her own, and wakes the INSTANT you put her down. I have been reading things like the Baby Sleep System and the dreaded Tracey Hogg, and am now scared that this situation is only going to get worse and that I am instilling a load of bad habits in her that it'll take years to shift.
Part of the problem is that I thought I'd be a tough authoritarian parent but am actually a complete weed who capitulates on the first cry. I experimented with a bit of PUPD in her afternoon nap and gave up after about 5 mins - she cried the minute I started lowering her into the cot and my back was killing me. No way could I keep that up for an hour, or whatever it would take.
So what do I do? Wait til she's older and then suffer through the torment of CC? Hope she grows out of it? Shushing and stroking her when she's in the cot makes bugger all difference to the yelling... The whole thing is making me feel like a complete failure and I know I am looking for excuses to put off confronting the issue. My current line is 'I'll sort it at 3 months', but why should it be any easier then?!