krystalmair said:help in which way?
Hi, my name's Becky & I GET NO SLEEP!!!!!
Austin's nearly 6 months and if he only wakes up twice in the night that's a good night for us.
He has two solid meals a day, breakfast and dinner.
He slept through for 5 days in a row when he was about 4 months? old but then started teething and that was the end of that. He now has 4 teeth so I'm hoping we get a break from teething and can learn to sleep again!!!
I really don't want to have to leave him to cry, I hate the whole idea of it. He's a baby and it's his only way of communicating. Is there any other way of encouraging him to sleep through?
maybebaby said:After a night of fairly good sleep I'm feeling a bit more relaxed, I think Austin may be suffering a bit from seperation anxiety at night, and gets a bit lonely. I've started putting his favourite cuddly toy into the cot with him & he cuddles it when he's going to sleep. I think it's helping to settle him a bit better. We're by no means going through the night yet but there's light at the end of the tunnel.
maybebaby said:Well it's not exactly sleeping through but last night went like this:
8:30pm - into bed, settled himself to sleep really quickly (usually takes 20 mins of me or OH stroking his face or holding his hand)
midnight - woke up, little grumble, quick boob feed, straight back down fast asleep
4:30am - same as above
6am - woke up, no time to grumble cos he came straight into bed with me. Bit of booby, then slept til 7:30am.
I feel like I'm getting somewhere slowly!
Rachel - is Hannah teething? Austin slept really well until he started teething, and 2 months down the line we're still not back to normal. Sorry I can't help but it sometimes feels better if you know what's wrong? Maybe try a little calpol before she goes to bed?
rachelandjarvis said:hi thanks girls, well she was reallllly bad for 4 days and nights and is now back to her old self. I think it was a mixture of teething (which shes been doing sinse 2 months anyway) biut of a cold (like mummy) and nappyrash.
Soooo glad shes back to herself - thought she'd changed for forever last week. lol.
Been sleeping though again 8pm till 6-7am Happy days