DD's sleeping is a nightmare. For a while now she's been waking every 1-2 hours overnight. Sometimes we'll get a stretch of 3 hours if we're lucky (two nights ago we got 4 hours!!!) but it generally starts an hour after she's fist gone to sleep. So she'll be in bed at 7:30, up at 8:30, dreamfeed at 9:30, then up at 10:30, 11:30, and so on. I had a bit of a moan at Mother's Group about it last week, and one of the mums has given me some Brauers Children's Sleep. I haven't touched it because I don't believe in medicating a child just to get some sleep.

On the packet it goes on about how it's natural, and uses "homeopathic ingredients that support rather than suppress the body's natural healing abilities". But still, the ingredients list is full of words I can't pronounce and don't recognise. So yeah, I've been reluctant to use it.

Until last night. DD woke every 50 minutes on the dot, from the time she went to sleep. On a good wake up she'd be asleep within 10 minutes, other times it was over 20. I figured she can't be hungry every 50 minutes right? But if I try any way of getting her to sleep other than feeding her, she hits, kicks and scratches at my chest until I give it to her. At 5am she decided that was it, no more sleep. I had her in bed between 12 & 4, but there was still no extra sleep for either of us because she makes such a big fuss over waking up and latching on.

So this morning I'm wrecked. I'm resenting DD for making me feel like I can barely stand straight, and for falling asleep just now because she'll probably nap better than she slept all night. I'm ****ed at DH for cooing at me and saying "Try not to be angry". So basically, I'm now considering this stupid 'sleep solution'. And I'm wondering if anyone's tried it, if it's actually all natural, and if I should or shouldn't try it. I don't know what else I can do right now.