2 month old wont sleep anywhere but on me!

[~ Mylitta ~]

It definitely sounds tough. At least my little velcro baby was my first baby, and my second is the nice easy sleeper. I planned that well, yeah?

I guess I don't really have any good advice though. We never did any CIO techniques or anything, we just sort of waited it out. When my son moved to his own room I can't tell you how many times I ended up sleeping on his floor with my arm through his cot patting his back. And this was while I was very pregnant, lol!

[onthefly]

DS was like this. He was very unsettled early on and it was the only way to get some sleep. He settled down a lot by around 3 months, and we started using some tips from the No Cry Sleep Solution to get him sleeping on his own. It worked. But then the next 'thing' came along and we were back to square one. He was over 2 before he was able to go to sleep by himself and sleep all night. It has stuck since then.

[berrme]

It definitely sounds tough. At least my little velcro baby was my first baby, and my second is the nice easy sleeper. I planned that well, yeah?

Lol, I keep saying how glad I am that my terrible sleeper is my 3rd bub because at least I know it isn't me doing something wrong.

DD is 6 weeks and sounds similar. We got the hammock because she screamed as soon as she was put flat in the bassinette. It is better... she at least sleeps in it during the day, but she still wants to sleep with me at night. Went and bought a heater today to see if the cold weather is part of the problem. (I wouldn't mind her being in with me for the next couple of months but DH is a light sleeper and DD is a very noisy sleeper/ feeder. Not a good combination. ) I would love any other suggestions to get her to sleep longer at a time and in her own bed.

[~ Mylitta ~]

Lol, I keep saying how glad I am that my terrible sleeper is my 3rd bub because at least I know it isn't me doing something wrong.

Lol! I love how we can find a silver lining in anything

[NaeNae]

My DD started that at around the same age, she wouldn't sleep ANYWHERE else through the day, nights were a little different for some reason though.

In the end I nursed her until she got too big and I got sick of being sore, I am thinking it was somewhere between 7-9 months? Honestly cannot remember.

ANyway one day I rang the ABA because she was literally attached to my breast for the entire nap (so it wasn't just she wouldn't sleep anywhere else either) and I was begining to go stir crazy and she said whatever it was I did at night do through the day too so I basically did our night routine through the day and it worked ..... I put her down in her cot and she slept 2.5 hours.

Maybe somethign just clicked in her brain who knows, but I CAN tell you started doing that at around the same age your LO is now.

Best of luck hun x x

Nae x

[Dragonbub]

Hello All,
Thanks again for your replies. I have made some adjustments and some progress! I can now put him down in his cot, even if for now it might be one sleep of the day, but he falls asleep in that sucking his dummy and me stroking his head. I have also stopped the "demand" feeding and am sticking to more of a 3 hourly feed schedule. Apparently my little one was topping up so much maybe he was getting too much of the fore milk and not enough of the hind milk, which is much higher in lactose and possibly upsetting his tummy (he had green poos so they said that was too much lactose). I have also dropped down my own lactose consumption (not that I had much anyway).

So here's hoping we've turned a corner!