Don't really know where to start with this but am hoping someone can help - think this is going to be a long post!!
DS2 is 10 months and has never slept through the night. Up until around 2 mths ago, he would go to bed at 7.30pm after a b/f and wake probably twice during the night at around 1am and maybe 4am/5am. Then he started throwing in another night wakening around 2 hours after his second time up. Then he got a rotten headcold and started waking at around 10.30/11pm, then 3 hrs after that and from then on at 2 hrly intervals - sometimes less until morning.
When he wakes he has a b/feed - sometimes a decent sized one but often small and is put back in his cot either asleep or drowsy but awake. BUT sometimes he goes in and starts to yell and it takes me maybe another half hour to settle him.
Is he getting enough to eat? I think so. That said, two nights ago he had a jar of baby rice pudding and scoffed the lot and that was the only night in such a long time that he went for 2 x 5 hr stretches w/out waking - bliss! Last night I gave him the same pudding after a big dinner ... he woke 4 times - at least (lost count). He's not a great pudding eater - won't eat yogurt and nibbles on fruit although I try to give him semolina a couple of nights a week.
So that's my first problem.
We have tried to cut out some middle of the night feeds - I moved to the spare room and DH took over with water and cc ... 1.5hrs and 2 vomits later, I gave up.
He's a ready vomiter, BTW!
Second problem ... up until 2 weeks ago (the day he discovered he could sit up unaided in his cot) he took two naps a day ... going down wide awake, babbling for a while and then sleeping for about 1-1.5 hrs each time. The day he sat up alone, that all changed and I now seem to spend naptimes alternating between running upstairs to lie him down and listening to him crying when I leave the room. This can go on for up to an hour.
Gina says let him cry, Mark Weissbluth says let him cry and I have ... but being so good at making himself sick that's often the end result ... which makes me feel really bad.
So I've gone from having a brilliant napper to a no-napper. I do not believe he needs to drop his morning nap - if so surely he would reduce it in time rather than refusing to go to sleep at all. I've played around with it's start time, making it a bit later - it worked for a few days but no longer. Also, if for some reason he misses the morning nap, he doesn't sleep better in the afternoon. Afternoon nap is either at 2.15pm (have to collect DS1 from playschool) or 1.30/1.45pm on non-playsch days. Bedtime 7.30pm. He gets up anywhere between 7 and 8am.
What on earth can I do? Do I sort the naps out first or tackle the whole thing together?
Any words of wisdom? I phoned the NCT b'feeding line in desperation last week about the nighttime wakings and a very nice lady told me I was doing everything right and suggested a few days of Phenergan to break the waking habit ... at this stage, I'm seriously tempted.
Sorry this is so long but I'm tearing my hair out ... literally!
Thanks
ps ... now I'm off to lift him from another no nap.
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Millie1 · 21/10/2004 10:55
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