I haven't read all of the replys yet, but what I did when I was desperate for sleep with my kids was to put a matteress on the floor against a wall in their room and go to sleep in there, but put them in their cot first and tried to go to bed early-ish (about 9 or 9.30), so if they had a good night and slept til midnight or whatever, then I would get a fairly good uninterrupted bit of sleep before having to worry about them getting up. And then I would put them ont he mattress with me between me and the wall.
Good luck. Sleep deprivation is seriously torturous. I feel for you.
Just wanted to second what Arcadia said. 7-10 months was awful for us, and we had a lot of what you described. I found DD would sleep particularly badly as she hit a developmental leap like learning to crawl. Poor love, it was like her body was making her keep practicing even when she was needing to rest and she'd be crawling and crying and looking frustrated and confused like 'I can't stop!!'. For us it settled down a lot at about 10 - 11 months and by 12 months we were back to 1 to 2 wake-ups - relative heaven!!! Good luck Hun, this too shall pass.
We have been going through similar issues for the last few months and DD is drooling an awful lot lately. Plus she has been sick a lot in that period. It is so hard to cope with though. Definitely go for the mattress on the floor. We have had the mattress on the floor for quite a while and makes it much safer. Even though DD still head butts the wall in her sleep it does not wake her
I tried the NCSS and it did not go so well for us. I think like one of the PP said, some babies respond this way to developmental changes. I am just riding it out with the belief that she will get better at sleeping longer herself. Last night I was only woken 4 times which was AMAZING.
No other advice to offer but I hope something works for you soon! The mattress on the floor in dd's room sounds like a good idea, means you'll be away from your room for a while but she'll get familiar with her room at the same time.
Hope she settles down soon for you and your necklace arrives super quick!
Ah thanks everyone for your advice, it feels so good to know that other babies do this. All the babies at MG are such good sleepers, makes me feel like a failure sometimes.
Last night was quite good, she slept in her cot the whole night and woke up about 7 times which was pretty good, coz I actually slept between the wakings and it was great being able to cuddle up to DH!
I'm getting a new bed in a few days that I'll probably buy a side rail for if she still needs to co-sleep, but I'm going to try and keep her in her cot coz I think we both sleep better that way, weirdly enough!
Our DD would not sleep in our bed at this stage, She seemed to want her own room. On really bad nights we went into her room where we had a queen size mattress on floor against the wall and gave her plenty of space to toss and turn, this seemed to work
The teething necklace also worked wonders for us, 13 hours sleep the night it arrived (We wer averaging 7ish before that)
Good luck
Turtleschell, my DS has been doing what you describe for the last 6 monhts or so. It has lessened now, but it still drives me crazy when he does it. The way I have found to cope with it, is to get us both out of bed, let him play for awhile, then he is able to let me resettle him.
I am in the middle of 'trying' to wean him off feeding to sleep. The days he doesn't feed to sleep he does do better in general with all his sleeps, so with my DS possibly it is a self settling problem.
Its great you made it through the night with him in the cot...i totally get lying in bed awake worrying they are going to fall off the bed - so annoying.
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