No hun, you're definitely not alone!!
I don't go in for the total attachment parenting style, ie we don't co-sleep and I don't feed to sleep either (well I guess I do overnight actually), but we still have our issues!
DS wakes every 3-4.5 hours for a feed. This equates to a feed at about 10pm, another at about 1.30-2am, then 5-6am then we get up for the day at about 7.30-8.30am.
With my DD I had already started to resettle rather than feed at that 2am feed when she was 4 months old.
After reading all this gentle parenting stuff, I've pretty much responded to DS's crying at night immediately and fed him thinking I was doing the right thing and eventually he'd start to sleep longer stretches on his own. Pfft! Not happening.
Starting to think I should have done things differently too. Perhaps some things just don't work for all people (or in this case, babies).
I wish I had the answers...I'm starting to get tired!
It's an awful, sinking feeling to read or to be told by 'experts' that your son 'should' be doing this, 'should' be doing that when you just can't see he's ever going to do it.
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