Sheer Bliss
19-01-2010, 19:53
8month old DD2 won't go to sleep pretty much unless she has a boob in her mouth. And if I try and put her in the cot too soon she wakes, if I keep her with me, the noise from the other kids wakes her, or DS2 wakes and I need to disturb her to feed him.
I had a tresillian nurse here a couple of months ago, and we had her re-settling herself OK, but now she is back to the same old thing. It is driving me crazy. It is so hit and miss, if i get her at the right time, she can sleep for 2hrs (IMO proving she CAN self-settle). A couple of times she has woken while i an feeding DS so I left her a couple of minutes as he was almost finished (the lessor of 2 evils, as otherwise i'd have had them both awake at night) and she went back to sleep for another hour. Now I try the patting/shhing tequniques we used and they don't work. She developed the same dependance on patting she had on rocking, and now on the boob. I don't want to CC her, although have a couple of times when DH was at work and I had the other 3 to get off to sleep, and I was just so desperate.
I don't know what else to do with her. She hasn't had longer than 30mins sleep in the day for ages, and as a result is sooooo tired and wakes 2-4times a night (and not at the same times DS2 is waking, so I am up about 6 times) We can't co-sleep as we often have DD1 &/or DS1 come into our bed at some time, and I don't trust them not to roll on her, and I am getting up a couple of times a night to feed DS2 anyway - so she'd probably be disturbed then anyway.
What on earth can I do? Patting, rocking, shhing, feeding and combining all of the above have not worked so far.....
I had a tresillian nurse here a couple of months ago, and we had her re-settling herself OK, but now she is back to the same old thing. It is driving me crazy. It is so hit and miss, if i get her at the right time, she can sleep for 2hrs (IMO proving she CAN self-settle). A couple of times she has woken while i an feeding DS so I left her a couple of minutes as he was almost finished (the lessor of 2 evils, as otherwise i'd have had them both awake at night) and she went back to sleep for another hour. Now I try the patting/shhing tequniques we used and they don't work. She developed the same dependance on patting she had on rocking, and now on the boob. I don't want to CC her, although have a couple of times when DH was at work and I had the other 3 to get off to sleep, and I was just so desperate.
I don't know what else to do with her. She hasn't had longer than 30mins sleep in the day for ages, and as a result is sooooo tired and wakes 2-4times a night (and not at the same times DS2 is waking, so I am up about 6 times) We can't co-sleep as we often have DD1 &/or DS1 come into our bed at some time, and I don't trust them not to roll on her, and I am getting up a couple of times a night to feed DS2 anyway - so she'd probably be disturbed then anyway.
What on earth can I do? Patting, rocking, shhing, feeding and combining all of the above have not worked so far.....