Ok so DS is nearly 8 months old and has always been a bad sleeper, a good/normal night for him is bed time feed about 8.30/9pm sleeps an hour then another feed then 2 hourly feeds there after until morning, his getting up time usually between 7.30 - 8-30am.
When he's having a bad run, eg teething or WW issues he will wake hourly or even less sometimes. He's currently on a bad run and I'm exhausted!
For those who also have frequent wakers, how do you deal with the sleep deprivation??? I'm so tired lately that I'm teary (which is not me) and want to burst into tears over the slightest thing...like today there was no milk and I wanted a cup of tea
Is it mind over matter? Or are there tricks? Any tips welcome!!
nope not mind over matter. For me I just got used to it. I still have a sucky sleeper who usually wakes about 5 times after 10pm and umpteen dozen between 6pm when he goes to bed and when I go to bed....I so know that I'm so tired I want to vomit stage
Oh Hun...8 month old dd just about killed me. I wish I was the teary type, instead i am the rant rave and throw tantrum type. I had to go to my parents for a holiday to get back to some kind of normal!!!
Otherwise early nights, time away from kids, a massage and sleep on the weekends. Oh and lots of venting on bb!
A nap (read: long sleep if poss) in the afternoon when baby is asleep. I put in a DVD for older sibling (and tell her I am in the next room), lock all doors etc, and have a snooze.
It's horrble isn't it?
I try and get through it by telling myself that at some point I WILL get some sleep!..Just not right now! (I know that sounds rediculous!)..It may be on the weekend when DH is home to watch the kids, or when they've all grown up but one day I WILL get some unbroken sleep!
It can feel just awful some days waking and feeling more tired than when you went to bed. For me (DD2 also woke 5 times a night till she was about 16 mths) after i tried everything i wanted to try to change it, i just gave in one day. I accepted i couldn't do much more and that it would get better in time. And eventually it did. The emotional relief that gave me (making peace with the wakings) was HUGE!
Other things that help are 1) don't look at a clock in the night 2) don't count how many times you get up. I really don't keep a track and when people ask how often i'm up in the night, really having no idea of how many times is a relief in a way (although it's probably about 3 times at the moment).
I think you just learn to function as you have too, I have had teary days, snappy days etc. DS1 didnt sleep thru the night till 11 months old (was BF to sleep) even then he wasnt settling for final time till 2300 ish then sleeping till 0800. During days he would BF to sleep and only sleep on my knee or in pram, 11 months stopped sleeping in pram grrr and 13 months I could put him down during day in cot!!
DS2 generally awake 2300 - 0001 until 0100 or 0200 then awake again at 0500 ish into bed with us until 0800 when DS1 wakes up.
Some days I am so tired I dont know how I get thru the day.
Hugs it will pass we will all get sleep eventually. (DH does not cope well if he does not get a good sleep.)
No really i can go about 4 nights with broken sleep(waking every hour or two) but after that I have to ask DH to do one wake up atleast so I can function normally for a few more days.
And also I find if I cant nap during the day sitting down to rest is better than nothing.
How do you cope with sleep deprivation???
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but one day I WILL get some unbroken sleep! 
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