DS2 13months waking many times a night

[staryeyed]

DS2 is 13months I now that I have done everything wrong in regards to getting him to sleep but I need to change that. I used to breast feed him to sleep but he has since given up boobs and is bottle fed to sleep or sometimes rocked. He sleeps with me even though I have a bedside cot. He has never been a good eater and generally grazes rather than eats. I feed him bottle at 7pm 11pm and then he wakes up several times in the night for a bottle (doesn't drink a whole bottle at once) and then seems starving in the morning. I took the easy route to sleep because DS1 has autism and is a very bad sleeper so always feeling exhausted.How do I fix things?

Oh, me too!

In fact, I came here to post something similar. My DS2 is also 13 months and hasn't slept well since he was 24 weeks old. He also wakes every few hours and needs settling.

He is also breastfed to sleep and I send DH to settle him at night so that he will get out of the feed to sleep habit. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We always end up co-sleeping from around midnight on. You have my sympathy.

Someone must have some bright ideas!

Same here.... DS2 (14 months) goes to bed happily, then wakes at 1 or 2am, then comes in for a cuddle and a boob for the rest of the night.

It's nice but..... I am shattered. DS1 (2.10) is also coming in for a cuddle in the middle of the night, so the bed is busy and cramped.

No one is getting much sleep (but it is cuddly... )

Ditto for me! DS is 13mo and sleeps in our bed and is permanently attached to my boob the whole night. He's always been like that and I'm permanently knackered.

Have thought about doing nighttime weaning, but don't have the energy. Also, I live in a flat and the neighbours are ultra-arsey about noise, so having him crying in the middle of the night isn't great. Can you tell that I'm making excuses for myself not to stick him in his own bed and give up nighttime boobs!!

Stuck between a rock and a hard place!

Much sympathy but no advice from me.

DD2 is 18 months and still waking for boob several times a night.

She is in bed with me all night.

I too took the easy option when she was younger and am paying the price now.

I do love the cosy cuddles but she is getting big now and the warm weather is making it difficult.