**MY FINAL TRY**

Hi hun :hug:

Just saw this. Basically Daniel's sleeping improved a LOT after we used this system.

First of all try getting her to sleep 1 hour later. She will be windgy but it is worth it.

Second - nappies. Daniel leeks in anything apart from Pampers (but the ordinary ones, not those Superfit or whatever ones. The ones in green package are the best). Try not to change her at 11pm. Maybe it is worth going a size up and buying those pants which you put on top of the cloth nappies, which doesnt let the wee through)

Third - the feeds. What we do, feed Daniel before he goes to sleep, and then feed him at 11pm (basically we dream feed him. Like a baby) Also, try adding baby cereal in the bottle of your usual formula milk. For a 9oz bottle about 2 teaspoons. But make sure its not to think, and keep in mind that it tends to bulk up after 5 minutes. And feed her with the teats which have wider opening, for thicker liquids.

Fourth - ignore crying. I know it is hard, but what we did in the beginning was, when Daniel started crying in the middle of the night I just went to his room, without any talking/eye contact put him back in his cot (he was usually standing up in there) and just sat on the floor so he can see me. He cryed a lot, for about 10-20 minutes, then just sat there watching me and then went to sleep. But you have to be really strong not to show any signs of you noticing her. So, after I saw that he went to sleep, I slowly moved further and further away from the cot. Sometimes he woke up and I had to go back and start from the beginning. Might take a few days, but now if Daniel wakes up in the night he isnt even crying, just sitting in his cot playing (I can hear all that on baby monitor). I only go and check on him if he is REALLY upset (you know that high pitch crying)...

Well, hope this will help. Worked for us (hope Im not gonna jinx myself, hehe)

xxxCarina
 
blimey , how exhausting for you hun :hug: :hug: :hug:

Got no advice (all the ladies has already suggested anything i wouldve said :D ) but just wanted to wish you luck. Hope you get a good nights sleep soon :sleep: xxx
 
You've got stamina lady!

I feel your pain. Alex wakes a million times a night. He breastfeeds and co-sleeps, and if I even leave him to go to the toilet, and he starts searching for my boob and can't find it he gets hysterical.

The past two mornings I've not even been able to get to uni in the morning because he was searching for me and got hysterical when I wasn't there.

I'm on the brink of quitting uni because his clingyness and inability to sleep without me is effecting my studies so much.

I wish you a lot of good luck for tonight. :hug:
 
Thanks again everyone :)

Carina - thanks for writing that, ALOT of what you did write, we have doneover and over, the 'more food' - food in bottle (before she was 12 months i thought it was hunger, now i know its not) and the sitting in the room, waiting til she goes off ect, ive done, but its just neevr seemed to work, thats why im doing the 'cold turkey' way now, as im at a loss of what else to try. :( But thankyou anyway :hug:

Xena - :( :( Im so sorry for you going through this as well as studying!! that must be so hard, i hope you dont end up having to quit, im going to the docs tomorrow regarding Hannahs sleeping, and im gonna really tell him that its effecting my moods/life and i cant cope ect. I seriously dont know what he could do, but ill let you know whatevber he says, if there is ANYTHING that can help. :)

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Well last night was abit :? She went to bed at about 6:30, and the fire works here were going CRAZY till abouyt 10pm, i was expecting her to be crying and up all night, and to my suprize i didnt hear a peep!!!, i decided maybe i wouldnt change her at 11pm, unless she cried before i went to bed, only then would i chamnge her, she woke at about midnight, but went back off to sleep fine.

Then i vagley remember hearing her at about 2am, she cried for maybe half hour, then went off again. Then at 3:30 she woke, really screaming, like in pain screaming, so i HAD to goin after 5 mins to just make sure she was ok. (i thought she might have done a poo and had nappy rash) well... she hadnt . . she had abit of bottle in her cot from earlier in the night so i gave her that and she went off...
I dont know if i consider this a re-lapse by me or not. . . ?
She then slept till...

wait for it...





9:30AM

!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!
SHE HAS NEVER SLEPT ANYTHING LIKE THAT MANY HOURS!!! . .
So overall im feeling alot more refreshed... but also like :think: :think: :? have i actually done more bad then good by doing what i did?

I wont be doing it again tho...

Heres for round 3 :rotfl:
 
wow what a turn around!! Great you got some sleep too. Did she manage to sleep a bit more the second night?
 
I honestly believe that children can believe they should wake a lot or they should sleep weirdly sometimes, not all, but some, and I think Hannah has a huge step to take in realising she can sleep through and she will be OK and I hope that because she slept that way for you, its the start of a whole new sleeping pattern for her and you :hug: :hug: :hug: Keep going, it will all work out in the end, stay strong :hug: :hug: :hug:
 
hope shes keeps inproving sounds like she had a really good night :) :hug:

regarding nappies have you tried the huggies pullups nighttime?

because we were having the same problem as you jack being in it from 6-9am and the nappy just couldnt handle it, but we tried these and hes stayed dry 4 nights in a row now :dance:
 
Well done!!!!! She is as determined a wee lady as I have ever seen.
 
Just wanted to add, the leaking nappy problem is probably linked to the nightime bottles problem. Because she has a lot of milk during the night, she pees too much and a nappy can't hold it in.

So if you manage to cut down on the milk to settle her, the nappy problem will probably solve itself.

K.xx
 
oh yikes :hug:

how have the last couple of days been? has the doc said anything helpful?
 
maybe she doesnt need as much sleep as other babies.. could you try giving her a nap at 3-4 instead of going to bed at 6.30..i would definatly try to cut all bottles at night as the wet nappies are obviously because she is drinking so much.. i would do a no leaky beaker of water instead.. and tell her that this is what she gets for her bed time drink theres no more milk sounds like it might be working anyways.. xx gl
 
Hope things are going well with Hannah and yourself, sending very best wishes :hug: :hug: :hug:
 

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