Crying it out is crying out to me

[SiarasMummy]

I feel bad for you, I went through the same thing, My daughter is STILL not sleeping through the night and she turned 3 in March. She was a fairly good baby through the day from birth but was a little horror at night. I would stand and rock her for what felt like hours and then she would only sleep for 30 mins at a time. I had finally had enough when she was about 8 months old and got myself on the waiting list for the Queen Elizabeth Centre (A sleep school) I felt like a failure that I had to ask someone else for help with my own child but it was the BEST thing I ever did. Some people think sleep school isn't a good thing and it's all about controlled crying but it really isn't. The sleep nurses worked with me and asked what I was comfortable with before suggesting methods I could use to get her to sleep without having to keep rocking her. After a one day stay (and some hard work at home on my own) it took about 2 weeks after that of sticking to what they showed me and my daughter was now having 2 x 2 hour naps through the day. I was in HEAVEN!
She was still very hard to resettle during the night so I went back when she was 15 months old to the sleep school for a 4 night stay and she has been so much better ever since then. Even though I have a husband he wasnt much help during the night in helping me stay calm and keep my cool, going to the sleep school and having the nurse there at night to help me made things so much easier and made it much less stressful. After those 4 days my daughter went from waking at least 5-6 times a night to only 2-3 times per night and I felt much more relaxed when she did wake up as I knew what to do to get her back to sleep.
If you feel like you're at the end of your tether, don't wait any longer, try and get in to a sleep school. When I went to QEC my husband was also welcome to stay with us and all our meals were done for us and each day we attended parenting classes whilst the nurses watched our kids. It was such a nice rest!

QEC also has a good website with videos and podcasts that can give you some good advice on sleep settling, just search in goodle for queen elizabeth centre