i know how you feel... my girl has never been a great sleeper, she is really inconsistent, she can have a fairly good week, then be woeful the next... from about four months i couldn't get her to sleep during the day, 45 minutes if i was lucky, and this would give me just enough time to shower, wash the bottles and grab some cereal..... the night wakings were sometimes hourly, three hourly on a good night... we got rid of the dummy and this seemed to help a great deal at night..... she has had some good day sleeps of an hour or two on some days, then other days nothing.... she is 6 months now and the worst thing is, she will no longer allow me to hold her and get her to sleep, or rock her, she refuses to lay down across my chest like she used to, that used to be my saving grace, if i was desperate i could always rock her to sleep and hold her and get some rest myself, now there is no hope of that...
i don't have any answers im sorry..... it is so hard, i just try to enjoy the good days and when its a bad day or week or month i just keep telling myself that it won't last forever... i think her reflux has a lot to do with it and i am biding time until she grows out of it... my MCHN has just given me the number of a day stay sleep school that DOES NOT let the babies cry and focuses more on reading babies signals etc... im going to give it a go it sounds interesting and even if i learn one thing that helps me then it will have been worth it.
keep doing your best and try to work out what it is that is preventing him from sleeping more soundly.... could he have reflux, wind, a food intolerance?? thing is, if he isnt sleeping during the day, then is sleeping so badly at night, the quality of sleep he is getting isn't the best.... if he was sleeping superbly at night then i guess it may have been a case of putting up with his daytime antics, but no good at night or day might signal something troubling him.
i can't wait for my girl to grow up, i know that sounds awful and i will miss her being a baby, but the reflux and vomiting and pain - i just think we will both be enjoying life a lot more when that subsides.
long post and slight hijack im sorry, just wanted u to know that u are not alone.
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