I jut can't deal with the lack of sleep anymore & thought I would see if you guys had any ideas for me. This is going to be long, but I'll explain the situation & what we've tried. I can probably count the number of times Zander has slept through on both hands. I wouldn't be so fussed relly if he was up once or twice over night but he's not, a good night here is when he's up at least 4 times. That I can handle but more often than not I'm up for hours on end. I'll give last night as an example.....

Zander had his normal routine of dinner, bath, 1/2 hour nudie play, bottle in his darkened room, bed (normally he has a book before bed, but we left his favourite at Granma's house). Last night was a bit later than usual, he was in bed at 9.15pm. I went to bed at 11.00pm. We were trying out something new so as I went to bed I turned on the radio in his room so he had some background noise. I went to sleep & all was good until 2am. Zander cried, I got up to see what was wrong & there was nothing obvious - he had his dummy in, blankets on & was holding his bear. His eyes were closed as if he was still asleep. So I adjusted his blanket he stopped crying & I went back to bed. By the time I got back he started again.

This went on from 2am - 4.30am. Every time I went in, it seemed like there was nothing wrong. At 3am I changed his nappy because it was quite wet. I'm embarrassed to admit that at 4am I gave in and gave him a small dose of Panadol thinking that maybe something was wrong that I couldn't see. I'm not sure if he was in pain & the Panadol helpes or if I just drugged him to sleep So from 4.30am until 9.50am he slept without a peep (and so did I!!).

One thing that was different last night though was he was sucking really hard/fast on his dummy every time I went in.

So now you have a typical sort of night (but without the panadol) I'll tell you some things we have tried....
* light on, but dimmed right down & light off
* heater on to warm the room (although it wasn't cold enough last night)
* radio on & no radio
* music from his mobile on & off
* changed from cow to soy milk - he had 2 nights when we first changed where he woke only twice
* given him bottles in the middle of the night
* given him a drink of water when he wake up
* cuddled him back to sleep
* Brauers Colic Relief when he had wind (didn't make a difference)
* Brauers Teething Relief which helped a bit but I don't want to be reliant on it in case it's not his teeth
* with his toys & without
* with a dummy & without
* with me sitting in the rocker next to his bed
* he won't sleep in our bed
* cuddling him back to sleep
* let him cry, but I go in after a max of 2mins (if that!)

He goes to sleep really well each night, as long as I don't try to put him to bed before he's tried then we have dramas. His day sleeps are fine - he has 1 sleep of about 2hrs in the afternoon. Some days he might have two sleeps, but that's determined by how he is during the day & really is his decision, although I do make sure he has at least one sleep. If for some reason he doesn't have a sleep during the day I make sure he goes to bed earlier than normal. Sometime we have late nights, but that doesn't seem to make a difference at all.

Not sure if it makes a difference, but might be worth mentioning... I can't remember the last time Zander has had a proper solid poo. This is the reason we changed him to soy milk in the first place. He doesn't seem to have an issue with it, although we have to be vigilant with nappy changes because it can cause nappy rash badly.