Heya

My 15 month old sleeps better in his own bed. If he is with us it gives him cause to stay awake. He now sleeps in a cot in his sisters room after torturing us for a month with night wakings from 1- 3 hours every night. He then just woke to be resettled a couple of times at night but in the last week we have all had colds which has made it worse. HIs record was up for 4 hours on monday nighht, my husband held him (in anger( and it kept bubby awake. i eventually went in at 5am (my hubby had not slept at all, poor possum, his coughing kept him up until bubby woke at 1) and put him in his cot. he screamed his head off, i held him there on his side while he tried to get up to climb out to me but in 5 minutes he was sleeping

from a whole lot of experience with 2 diabolical sleepers and because you are pregnant i think you should probably decide upon a sleep technique and stick to it, either that or resign yourself to cosleeping but be warned - cosleeping is first class for baby and he will want none of economy class when it comes time for little baby to come. it will be much harder on declan to let him cosleep and then put a stop to it. i am speaking from terrible heartbreaking experience here

when he wakes he wants your attention, he gets it, it makes him happy and the attention you are giving him actually feeds the problem and makes him wake more

you can try reading the no cry sleep solution by elizabeth pantley which is wonderful or you can go a bit tougher but more effective with the baby whisperer solves all your problems but still doesn't leave baby to be abandoned and despairing

i myself have given up on these gentle techniques and bubby is getting a sedative for teh next few nights while i try to recover from this flu and get some sleep back and then i am going to do the weak version of controlled crying involving only 3 minute gaps and more drugs (a la christopher green)

good luck and pm me if you want more detail as to how i got my babies to sleep better before this cold came through and reignited the flame of neverending wakefulness!

i know where you are at, i am at a critical level of sleep deprivation myself and its not pretty, it makes me a bad bad mother and an unpleasant person

sometimes it makes me want to unleash an AK47 on my family, but thankfully those days are rare

x
Beck