So he is 14 weeks, and I used to feed him to sleep each night thinking 'rod for my own back and all that, but I'm sure we'll work things out in the long run'. Only now I can't feed him to sleep, because he won't GO to sleep. He just sucks and sucks and dozes but if I try to gently take him off, or even if he comes off himself, he'll wake up a few minutes later and we have to start the whole cycle again. The last couple of nights we have tried cuddling/rocking him to sleep instead, but he screams and screams for an hour and a half or more before finally going down. There's no way we can leave him to self settle in his Moses basket, he would go absolutely mental.
DH is currently pacing with him and I can hear him screaming through two closed doors and two floors up from me. It's awful, and I feel terrible for him but don't know what to do - it's not good for either of us to just doze on and off all night, we both need some proper sleep. He used to do a 3-4 hour stretch then wake every 1.5-2 hours after that and be fed back to sleep, but if I wean him off being fed to sleep on first going to bed, do I need to do it at every night waking too? It seems logical that I would, otherwise he could quite reasonably expect to be fed to sleep all the time. But that would mean pacing around with a screaming baby every hour and a half in the night. So should I just bite the bullet and try to do that too? Sorry for so many questions, I just feel all over the place at the moment and so clueless. He's not even my first child - DC1 (DD) is 4 now and she was an appalling sleeper till well past the age of 3, and I can't believe we seem to be going down the same road again...
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DS won't sleep without a nipple in his mouth and I'm ready to break all the plates in the kitchen cupboard in frustration
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mybamboocanoe · 12/05/2013 21:21
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