yet another sleep problem
I thought DD was a bad sleeper, but man, DS takes the cake. Since he hit the 4month mark, waking up 3times a night is a good night. But at least 2 nights a week, its more like 6.
He settles no problems initially in the evening - but after then, settling him is sometimes impossible. On a good night, I can feed him and he'll settle for another 2hours, but other nights, as soon as we settle him and try to pop him in the cot he starts crying again. And this is becoming more and more common. We're trying gentle methods so generally a feed or a rock to sleep, but this is no longer working as he doesn't stay asleep once you move him to the cot.
When he goes down to begin with, I can pat/ssh him, but then this never works the rest of the night. Tonight, I actually just sat in the chair next to the cot, and he was happy, and went to sleep, no fuss, no tears but he's just woken up and will not settle for anything.
We tend to co-sleep at either the 3am wake up or the 5am one depending on how tired I am, but even then, he doesn't sleep well and neither do I, so long term I don't think its an option.
I really don't know what to do anymore...any ideas???? I'm past the exhausted stage, and am now really in survival mode, but I really need to get this sorted as its not fair on my DD to have a zombie for a mum.