Crappy Sleepers Club

Anyone one to join me?

I was up 5+ times last night.    A lot of the time it is for resettling, but twice was hunger, and then once was poos and then another he was wet right through and everything needed to be changed.

I am OK with him waking at night because he's hungry, that doesn't bother me at all and I'm so used to it now anyway.

I am over the hourly waking for reasons I can't figure out.   I've eliminated cold, hunger, wind, everything I can think of and he still wakes.    

CC and CIO is something I didn't think I would ever do and I still won't do the CIO method, but a little bit of controlled crying is helping I think.   And I'm talking less than five minutes of crying before I go in again.

I know it doesn't last forever and I love my little baby dearly, but I'm sooooo tired!

Does anyone want to join me just to sympathise, share our bad nights and have a bit of a whinge and a moan?     We don't have to offer advice or solutions, just a place to have a vent really.

Any time!!

Jamie is a good morning sleeper, but that's about it!

Afternoon sleeps are almost a big fat waste of time in this house.      I can spend 1 hour+ settling, to get half an hour sleep out of him!

Share your pain!!

i'm in too!
I miss sleep, i miss a long stretch say more than 3 hours in a row. 4 or 5 would be excellent!

I've got him down to only feeding 3 times now yah! done from 6-7 times at night! a small but wonderful accomplishment!

Oh yes, I'm definately in here.

 

Last night was a total shocker. He is waking every hour to hour and a half screaming and the only thing that will settle him is being nursed. I am normally up with him 8 times a night.

I am however getting on top of his day sleeps with generally 2 good sleeps of 1.5hours - 2hours and another 30min or 45min sleep in the late afternoon.

But, it seems that when I get his day sleeps right we have a really bad night, but if his day sleeps are crap we have a good night (and by good I mean up 4 or 5 times).

When will it end??!!

MamaT, the only time we've had a good night (1-2 times waking) is when he has a really shocking day and doesn't sleep much at all.    Everyone says sleep breeds sleep, but it seems to be the total opposite here.

On a typical night we have screaming every hour or so until midnight, sleep for three hours, and then scream every hour until 8AM.

Occasionally I'll get 7PM-midnight, which is a good night for us. After midnight is just continual waking though.

I don't know when it ends!   I am hoping that a crappy sleeping baby doesn't turn into a crappy sleeping toddler or child.      I feel a bit out of my depth because my three year old slept right through the night from 7 weeks onwards, only woke occasionally due to teething, and now sleeps 7PM-8AM, without fail every single night!

Edited by mamanee

I am in!

#2 is a nightmare sleeper! Wakes at least twice a night and sleeps for no longer than 45mins in the day at sone time.

#1 was a nightmare night sleeper but a wicked day sleeper. He didn't sleep thru consistently until 18 months.

I would love a good sleep.

Also both my boys wake for the day between 5 -5.30am.

I am of no help as can't figure out what causes my boys probably...I blame the breeding!

Mamanee, sounds like our two are similar.

At least tonight when I'm up for hours on end, I'll be able to think that I'm not the only one!

I'm in too! Just when things seemed to be settling down and we were getting better nights AND better days he decided he'd rather wake up lots and go back to catnaps only.   V and coke are my friends.

But on the bright side it was a great bargaining tool for getting DH to go out and get takeaways even though he's cooked the last 4 nights.

I'm in!

#1 is a dream. Was sleeping through from around 6 weeks old and even now at 3 does 6.30-7.30 overnight - hardly ever has wake ups

#2 none of the above! Wakes constantly, can't resettle himself at all (probably because I can't let him cry in fear he will wake his big sister up!), won't sleep during the day for more than 20 minutes - nuff said! Argh!   Lets just say I miss my bed and husband

Edited by Mama2two

I'm in too - I really thought it was just me and no one else could possibly have a nearly 6 month old baby waking that many time! I have just (in the last week) managed to bring her bedtime forward till 8pm (it was hours of screaming, crying, fussing etc till at least 10pm until recently. Now its down around 8, wake at 8.30, then at 9.30 then 11.45, 2.45, 5 and up for the day at 8, with maybe an extra wakeup at 7.

I was feeding every single time, nursing her back to sleep, but now I can usually rock, shussh her back to sleep in 5-10 minutes (still wakes me right up though) with just the 2.45 and/or the 5am one as feeds... I too don't mind feeding her if she's hungry, but the waking up crying and just needing to be resettled thing is hard work!