Night waking every hour and exhausted

[chody47]

Is he actually waking that often or just stirring between sleep cycles? I know that there were times when DD was young that I'd think she was awake and pick her up so as not to wake DH but she was really just between sleep cycles and would have resettled quickly if I hadn't have picked her up.

[onthefly]

You sound rightly frazzled! It's a rough gig when they're doing that!

Here's what has helped me through these periods (basically all workarounds to survive - no sort of 'training' ever had a lasting effect on my kid's sleep, only time)
bed share - i gave up on the cot with DS at 8 months and wish I'd done it sooner! Still haven't tried sleeping DD separately. I'll wait till she's sleeping through and I don't have to get out of bed. That's the real killer, I reckon, when you're both wide awake because you've had to get up and then it takes so long to get back to sleep.
Feed to sleep - if that's the quickest route to sleep (it stopped working after a while, doh!)
have sleep ins on weekends or any time help was at hand
let other things go and take advantage of any rest time I could

Be kind to yourself and give yourself some slack. You're tired.

[tippytoes]

Hun sounds like Clara a few weeks back! We r now back to up every 2-3 hours!!! I hear u on the tiredness it does catch up with u. I have no magic solution , big hugs though, u r not alone xxx

[LuluHB]

I second MadB's suggestion of bed sharing. My little Miss started this at 3 months old after sleeping up to 8 hours at a time and is still doing it at 6 months. I've tried settling her without feeding, feeding her and then putting her back in her hammock, having her hammock right next to me, across the room and in a different room and none of it made any difference. I now put her down in her hammock first thing in the evening, so about 8pm and if I'm lucky she'll sleep until about 10pm when I feed her in bed and just leave her there. Its still exhausting being woken every hour to two at the most, but I now just let her attach and then most of the time I'll wake up 30 odd minutes later and we've both dozed off. I just keep telling myself that she can't go on like this forever - just have to get through this stage! Its especially hard when you have other LOs so you can't do the usual "sleep when they sleep".

Good luck. I hope your LO goes back to long sleeps sooner rather than later.