my DS is a frequent night waker (on average every 1-2 hours) & has been pretty much since birth. we had a wonderful month where he'd sleep for 4-6 hours for his first stint at night & then wake every 2 or 3 hours but since he worked out how to roll at 3 months it's all gone a bit haywire! DS is BF, feeds to sleep (although he seems to be slowly growing out of it) & feeds back to sleep overnight. he & i co-sleep.

i don't expect him to sleep all night yet (although i would, of course, love him to!) but i need to hear that there is light at the end of the tunnel! it's an amazingly emotional journey - some days i'm fine with it & on a bit of a high knowing i'm doing okay with broken sleep. other days it's a massive pity party & i feel completely hopeless & exhausted

so...would anyone like to share with me when things started to improve for you & whether you intervened (and how & at what age) or whether it all just happened naturally as they were developmentally ready to sleep longer stretches?

i've put this in the gentle parenting forum because that's what works for us. i don't like CIO or CC & i really don't think it would work with DS because he gets distressed really quickly & is very difficult to calm if he does get like that.