Barb he never has been good with night times, even with my bottlefed babies he didn't get up and feed them. He also refuses to sleep anywhere but his own bed so I just can't sleep in the bed with the kids. I am reluctant to move the 2 year old out of our bed because he just turn into this hyperventilating little monster. Last night I put him back in his own bed out of frustration when he had woken his sister twice and he started screaming and hyperventilating so loud that he woke his brother up so then I had all 3 children awake at 2am that I had to contend with.

Until recently dd was sleeping fairly well in the cot beside our bed so it was all working but as the months go on she is getting more and more clingy and wanting to just be in my arms and sucking to sleep. So with no other choice I am sitting up with her for hours on end at night trying to get her in a deep enough sleep that I can put her down so she won't wake up. I am just so exhausted by this, it's not even the night waking that bothers me. If she woke, fed and went back to sleep it would be ok. Not ideal but ok. But our night looks more like this, wake, feed, go to sleep, attempt to put back to bed, wake up instantly, cry. Bring back out of bed, re-attach, she goes back to sleep, attempt to put her down in bed again, wakes instantly, cries. If I just pick her up and try cuddling her she will keep crying. She only stops when I put her back on the boob. And this can go on for about 2hrs at a time.

It's not her fault I know but I am also a bit of an insomniac so after being up with her for hours I am then so wide awake (even though exhausted) that it can take me an hour to get back to sleep, generally leaving me only about 30mins of sleep before she's stirring and we start the whole things again.