Hi there

My DS was a forceps baby and I have been taking him to a cranial osteopath. She happened to say, just off the cuff, that she generally finds that forceps babies are very wakeful babies and have trouble settling themselves to sleep.

My jaw dropped a bit. This is my DS all over. Since he was a newborn he has never been able to "shut down" - he just couldn't/can't relax into sleep. And he still wakes up during the night, he has never slept through, not once. And we are still rocking and breastfeeding him off to sleep for every nap and at night time and in the middle of the night. He is nearly 15 months old. Sigh.

I'm sure that part of the problem now is that he is so used to being rocked or fed. But that's not what I want to talk about. I'd really love to know if anybody else out there has a forceps baby that has sleep problems. I don't know anyone else who had a forceps delivery so I can't compare notes.