Blue&Pink
25-06-2006, 14:43
I am at my wit's end!
DS has never been a great night sleeper but always a pretty good day sleeper. The longest I've ever had him go overnight is 6 hours, and then dribs and drabs the rest of the night. I used CC on him when he was younger and it worked a charm; but a weekend access visit with his father ruined that habit and he's refused to go with it again since. I got him into the habit of co-sleeping once when he was sick and now he co-sleeps pretty much every night. Except he sleeps fine in his own bed during the day, and not at night.
He has one solid day sleep - roughly 2-2.5 hours. He has an average bedtime of between 8pm and 9pm. He eats plenty, so he really shouldn't be waking from hunger. He also does not put himself to sleep; he gets comforted to sleep, whether it be that he goes to sleep on his bottle, in the car if we've been out somewhere, or by being cuddled/rocked by me. If he wakes due to a soggy nappy I change him and have trouble getting him to settle again; I offer a bottle if I can't settle him, which he will happily take but then still won't settle.
I enjoy co-sleeping with him don't get me wrong. But we are both restless sleepers and it often causes us more dramas than anything else.
So far I have put him in a big bed.. thinking because he's so tall (83cm's) the cot was too cramped.. and because he has a habit of moving around so much he used to bump into the sides and ends of the cot.
He has a night light, not too bright but not too dark.
I use a heater in his room of a night-time before he goes to bed so that the air in the room is warm, I lay his pj's in front of the heater for a half an hour so he gets into warm pj's and goes into a warm room and warm bed
I have put a radio in his room as when he sleeps in my room it is with the radio on
Last night I put a t-shirt of mine around his pillow like a pillow case hoping that if he could smell me it would help, but to no avail. He was awake within 2 hours.
I'm almost out of options; short of buying a teddy with my t-shirt on it for him to snuggle into I don't know what to do? My Dad suggests putting the baby gate across his bedroom door and leaving him cry but he can cry for 6 or 7 hours without stopping and I won't be able to handle it.
Again, he sleeps perfectly fine in his room during the day, but not at night? I know 90% of his night-wakings now is probably habit, but I really want to break the co-sleeping as he has a fantastic new bedroom since we moved house and I went to a lot of effort to set it up really nicely for him. It just seems a shame he won't enjoy it.
DS has never been a great night sleeper but always a pretty good day sleeper. The longest I've ever had him go overnight is 6 hours, and then dribs and drabs the rest of the night. I used CC on him when he was younger and it worked a charm; but a weekend access visit with his father ruined that habit and he's refused to go with it again since. I got him into the habit of co-sleeping once when he was sick and now he co-sleeps pretty much every night. Except he sleeps fine in his own bed during the day, and not at night.
He has one solid day sleep - roughly 2-2.5 hours. He has an average bedtime of between 8pm and 9pm. He eats plenty, so he really shouldn't be waking from hunger. He also does not put himself to sleep; he gets comforted to sleep, whether it be that he goes to sleep on his bottle, in the car if we've been out somewhere, or by being cuddled/rocked by me. If he wakes due to a soggy nappy I change him and have trouble getting him to settle again; I offer a bottle if I can't settle him, which he will happily take but then still won't settle.
I enjoy co-sleeping with him don't get me wrong. But we are both restless sleepers and it often causes us more dramas than anything else.
So far I have put him in a big bed.. thinking because he's so tall (83cm's) the cot was too cramped.. and because he has a habit of moving around so much he used to bump into the sides and ends of the cot.
He has a night light, not too bright but not too dark.
I use a heater in his room of a night-time before he goes to bed so that the air in the room is warm, I lay his pj's in front of the heater for a half an hour so he gets into warm pj's and goes into a warm room and warm bed
I have put a radio in his room as when he sleeps in my room it is with the radio on
Last night I put a t-shirt of mine around his pillow like a pillow case hoping that if he could smell me it would help, but to no avail. He was awake within 2 hours.
I'm almost out of options; short of buying a teddy with my t-shirt on it for him to snuggle into I don't know what to do? My Dad suggests putting the baby gate across his bedroom door and leaving him cry but he can cry for 6 or 7 hours without stopping and I won't be able to handle it.
Again, he sleeps perfectly fine in his room during the day, but not at night? I know 90% of his night-wakings now is probably habit, but I really want to break the co-sleeping as he has a fantastic new bedroom since we moved house and I went to a lot of effort to set it up really nicely for him. It just seems a shame he won't enjoy it.