My 12mo DS has always been a crap sleeper. We limped throught the first few months by sharing the night (me & DH) co sleeping, bottle-feeding-hugging-pushing in pushchair in middle or night. Anything to get ourselves 2-3 hours solid sleep. It really was hellish.
At 9mo we sleep trained (CC) and although the method has given us the biggest gains it has not been an absolute solution. At best we got him sleeping from 7pm-4am, we'd then take it in turns to get up with him as we couldn't get him back to sleep.
Now three months on and I'm back to feeding him in the night. Sometimes he can take up to two hours to settle.
He can SS at bedtime usually with 20 minutes of crying ( nothing serious) but at night when he wakes he will SCREAM AND SCREAM if I don't bf him- cuddles from DH don't calm him.
I feel so demoralised.i want to be on the path to things getting better but they are getting worse again and I feel like SCREAMING MYSELF. We used the big guns when we used CC and not he just goes mental but all gentle sleep methods seem to lead to MORE WAKE UPS.
Any ideas or sympathy would be appreciated. It would be nice to know we're not the iny ones in this situation.
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Cbell · 13/08/2014 23:53
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