tinkerbell13
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Hiya,
Ive posted about sleeping issues before but it seems to have got much much worse now, to the point where im thinking of hiring a Sleep consultant. .. (I don't want to do this but we're all worn out, I've ordered Elizabeth Pantleys book so will give her techniques a try first though)
So at 3 months our lo started sleeping through the night, well for 8 hours. He did this until he was around 4 and a bit months. He had a cold and developed croup so was up several times a night coughing which resulted in us having to have him sat up asleep on our laps (recommended by gp as raising cot, calpol plug in and everything else tried wasn't working) he had cough for around 5 weeks.
However it appears that he's got into the habit now of waking up, when he had the cough he was waking himself up coughing but now he's just waking up constantly for no reason. Fri, Sat and Sun night he was up 12/13 times, and all this week it's been on average 7/8 times per night. When he wakes up he wants to feed and has a minute or so sucking then falls asleep and I can put him straight back in cot other times he crys and crys then once I pick him up out of cot he falls straight asleep in my arms!
Friends I've discussed this with all recommend controlled crying but this is the one thing that I will NOT do (I'm not trying to start a debate but it's just not for us).
I should add that he's 6 months next week and we will start weaning then and I've been told that this may help him Sleep?
If anyone has any advice on what else I could try that'd be brilliant.
Thank you sooooo much for reading x
Ive posted about sleeping issues before but it seems to have got much much worse now, to the point where im thinking of hiring a Sleep consultant. .. (I don't want to do this but we're all worn out, I've ordered Elizabeth Pantleys book so will give her techniques a try first though)
So at 3 months our lo started sleeping through the night, well for 8 hours. He did this until he was around 4 and a bit months. He had a cold and developed croup so was up several times a night coughing which resulted in us having to have him sat up asleep on our laps (recommended by gp as raising cot, calpol plug in and everything else tried wasn't working) he had cough for around 5 weeks.
However it appears that he's got into the habit now of waking up, when he had the cough he was waking himself up coughing but now he's just waking up constantly for no reason. Fri, Sat and Sun night he was up 12/13 times, and all this week it's been on average 7/8 times per night. When he wakes up he wants to feed and has a minute or so sucking then falls asleep and I can put him straight back in cot other times he crys and crys then once I pick him up out of cot he falls straight asleep in my arms!
Friends I've discussed this with all recommend controlled crying but this is the one thing that I will NOT do (I'm not trying to start a debate but it's just not for us).
I should add that he's 6 months next week and we will start weaning then and I've been told that this may help him Sleep?
If anyone has any advice on what else I could try that'd be brilliant.
Thank you sooooo much for reading x
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