Well we had a breakthrough with the sleep. I did a couple of things all at the same time so not really sure which one helped.
I have put DS back into my bed day and night for sleeps. Feed to sleep lying next to him and no grobag, just put a doona on the bottom of his legs. Everyday his sleep has been getting better and yesterday he had 2 x 2 hour sleeps. Hasn't done that since around 4 months which I think is when I started putting him in the grobag. I am gradually going to try to put him back into his cot for day sleeps without grobag and put a little cot quilt on him.
I hope all you girls are getting a bit more sleep with your little ones.
Just bumping this thread as my 7 month old is doing the exact same thing. She is lucky to have two 40 min naps a day (yesterday she just had one nap )
She goes down around 7pm then wakes at least every 40 mins until about midnight then if I'm lucky will sleep in 2 hourly stretches. If it's a bad night she wakes every 40 mins looking to feed all night.
Day naps are in the sling or in arms - I cannot put her down at all during the day. She co-sleeps at night - happily feeds off to sleep but wakes constantly.
i am beyond tired. Any tips for getting her to sleep longer? It doesn't matter where or how she falls asleep she just can't stay asleep. She is also tired - constant eye rubbing when she wakes at night and she just cries and cries until I feed her.
Well we have gone back and forth with the sleep thing for DS. He is now 8 months and crawling, so things have changed again.
The one thing I did was to record exactly what he was doing and when. I recorded every feed, what time he went to sleep, exactly how long. I noticed after a couple of days that he actually had a routine, but being busy with my older DD I hadn't really noticed it. So he now goes for his first sleep 10:15am and for his second around 2:30pm. I feed him to sleep each time, then put him in his cot. Somedays he just does the two 40 min sleeps, other days he stays asleep longer. If he really seems tired by the afternoon and his morning sleep got interrupted, I hold him for his afternoon sleep and he normally stays asleep for an hour or so.
I am now being a bit kinder to DS by trying to stay at home for his sleeps or make sure if I have to go out that he can sleep in the car or pram at his normal sleep time.
Night time, he now does stretch out for about 2 - 3 hours between feeds. I haven't done anything different, co-sleeps and feeds whenever he wants.
I hope your little one starts sleeping better soon. It is so frustrating when they won't sleep.
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