I've tried every settling technique known to man He settles himself during the day... it's just at night. Seriously, we have tried everything. Controlled crying, co-sleeping, feeding him, not feeding him, patting, rocking, shushing, ignoring, sleeping in our room, sleeping in his own. Nothing works- hence the fact I have no faith in Tresillian or sleep school because anything they can show me I'm pretty sure I've already done. I can't even take a night off and get just one full night's sleep becuse bubs cries himself into hysterics if I'm not there- to the point where he is sobbing so hard he can hardly breath. he did that for two hours straight once- he won't even scream himself to a certain point and then drop off. Just a hopeless, helpless situation. Normally i try not to think about it too much and just soldier on but some days it just gets to me
It really is awful - there is a reason that sleep deprivation is used during torture and interrogation. Yasin woke up almost every 2 hours until he was over a year (and DH thinks he was a great sleeper - bah! that's because he never got up) but now he sleeps pretty well.
I found that what worked best for me was just giving in to it - having Yasin in my bed so that when he woke in the night it took less time to settle him and go back to sleep, having a nanna nap in the day when Yasin had his nap so that I could get by on less sleep at night, getting DH to get up on saturday so I could catch up on my sleep. Instead of focussing on getting Yasin to sleep I focussed on catching up on my sleep.
He still likes to sleep with DH or me and that's ok by me - soon he'll grow out of that too. Something my sister said to me at the time that has stuck and proved to be true is 'at the time it seems like it will drag on forever but when it's over it will seem like it was really fast'.
He will grow out of it - hang in there. One day you'll be geting a teenager out of bed at midday.
He settles himself during the day... it's just at night. Seriously, we have tried everything. Controlled crying, co-sleeping, feeding him, not feeding him, patting, rocking, shushing, ignoring, sleeping in our room, sleeping in his own. Nothing works- hence the fact I have no faith in Tresillian or sleep school because anything they can show me I'm pretty sure I've already done. I can't even take a night off and get just one full night's sleep becuse bubs cries himself into hysterics if I'm not there- to the point where he is sobbing so hard he can hardly breath. he did that for two hours straight once- he won't even scream himself to a certain point and then drop off. Just a hopeless, helpless situation. Normally i try not to think about it too much and just soldier on but some days it just gets to me
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It really is awful - there is a reason that sleep deprivation is used during torture and interrogation. Yasin woke up almost every 2 hours until he was over a year (and DH thinks he was a great sleeper - bah! that's because he never got up) but now he sleeps pretty well.
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