So when does it get to be fun???

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Oh gawd, I know EXACTLY what you're going through! Although we never even had that good patch of sleeping. Our DS has reflux (still!!) and right from the start he never slept well. We'd be lucky to get 1 - 2 hours out of him at a time over night and during the day he never slept, except on the boob while feeding (for maybe 20 minutes 2 or 3 times a day). Once we got him on this medication (Losec) he started sleeping well through the night (say 11:30 pm to 6 am - maybe waking for one feed) and then a month or two later he even started to sleep during the day!! Only for 40 minutes at a time (2 or 3 times a day) but that was HEAVEN to me!!!!

Finally by about 5 months old he was sleeping pretty good during the night (by then about 10:30 pm to 7 am - maybe waking once a night) but still only short sleeps during the day...this went on until the teeth started popping through (around 6 months old) when he started waking around 8 times a night in pain.

These days DS sleeps from about 9:30 pm - 6 am (waking a few times a night sometimes) and has 2 or 3 sleeps of 40 - 60 minutes a day. To me that is AWESOME but I know to others it is shocking. (I don't know where you get those babies that sleep heaps but we didn't get one)

Everyone kept telling me "it will get better when he's 6 weeks old", then at 6 weeks "it will get better when he's 12 weeks old", then at 12 weeks "it will get better really soon" but I think it took to about 5 months for us. I must admit, I didn't enjoy those first months at all...motherhood is definitely harder for those with 'difficult' babies...

Stick with it and look after yourself as much as possible (take any offered help - don't be too proud like I was) and just try to keep your spirits up as much as possible... It will get better, but maybe not just yet... Even though it doesn't feel like it, you're doing a great job and eventually it will get better...I know that's no help now but when it happens you will feel so much better and actually enjoy being a mum. Good luck!!!!