co-sleeper is driving me BONKERS!!

[Electric Boogaloo]

I have been co-sleeping with my DS for around 8 months now and he is 13mo old. I am very committed to a no-cry approach and gentle sleeping solutions....

But this kid is driving me BANANAS!! I feel like I'm losing my mind. Every now and then he'll have a night where he only wakes once or twice, but it has gone back again to him waking every couple of hours. Not for a feed, mind you, just to climb all over mummy's head and push up next to me and roll around. I'm not sure how much longer I can last only getting a couple of hours of sleep at a time. Adding to that is my stupid insomnia which has wonderfully decided to show up in the last month or so aarrrrggghhh :freakingout::freakingout:

I'm really running on empty. We have set up his 'big boy bed' in his room to start a gentle introduction to it and hopefully we can encourage some day naps in there before trying night sleeps.

In the meantime, I think I'm just after some words of encouragement from other co-sleeping mummies, if I can stay awake long enough to read it lol :sleeping:

[smileygirl]

hugs...subscribing cause my lil treasure/terror is doing the same....

[Maximum22]

Do you find now that your sleeping less your eating more sugar to get through the day? If so that might be why your insomnia is back, I have to keep my sugar intake extreemly low otherwise I'm up all night

[Electric Boogaloo]

:detective: hmm, thanks maximum22, you're probably right about that. I do tend to scoff a chocolate bar and/or a hot chocolate in the evenings while I'm watching tv before bed. waaah :crying: does that mean I have to give up my little bit of enjoyment??? lol

smileygirl treasure/terror, love it! lol

[Maximum22]

Well I do :( but just have it in the mornings! I also can't co-sleep drives ne crazy I get so sleep what so ever, so I'm impressed that you've done it for so long

[smileygirl]

there is a def link with me between bad sleep and eating crap.

i keep those biggest loser shakes on hand for when i need a very quick pick me up and am tempted by crap.

oh for some uninterupted sleep....dream!

[Areca]

I can't eat sugar before bed either...can't sleep if I do. I also suffer from crazy insomnia if I have sulphites.

As far as the co-sleeping and your restless DS goes...my DD1 did this at 12 months old. She'd wake up and give me kisses, lie back down, sit up and kiss me, lie back down, sit up and kiss me etc. etc. and it would go on half the night. Turns out she just wanted her own space. As soon as we put her in her cot she was back to sleeping all night.
DS started waking up at 7 months and screaming for 2 hours. It sucked. We put him in his cot one night and the screaming stopped.
It sounds to me like she could be ready for her own sleeping space.

[Electric Boogaloo]

It sounds to me like she could be ready for her own sleeping space.
oh wow that is music to my ears! We are going to try moving DS to his own bed slowly so hopefully he is ready for it :fingerscrossed:

[CakeyLoaf]

I sometimes cosleep with dd 6 months if she is having a wakeful night (quite regularly atm) and somehow she manages to push dh and I off the bed! She starfishes (she's really long, 73cm) and we are both on the edge. It drives me bonkers!

[wrena]

:hugs:That sounds really tough. Definitely agree about cutting out the sugar before bed. If you don't mind the taste chamomile tea can help with the insomnia and is safe for breastfeeding.
I took my 10 month old co-sleeping DD to a paediatric osteopath and after 1 treatment she started sleeping through! Might be worth chasing up. Good luck

[Gypsybum]

Electric boogaloo I have read in another thread you are having success! Yay!! Was just wondering I have a 13 month old and nightweaned and moved her into her cot at around 12months. She has taken to it well I think she needed her own space too she was headbutting me all night! Did you move yourDS into a cot or bed as I wanted to do the transition to bed so I could lay with her if she woke but cots are hard and I end up in the rocking chair alot! Just wondering what you did?

[Electric Boogaloo]

Hi Gypsybum
We have transitioned DS into a bed mattress on the floor of his bedroom. Things went backwards a lot as he kept waking through the night a lot for the first week or so, and he has been sick a few times too since then (he currently has bronchitis, poor mite :() so we're still getting 2 or 3 wakings per night at this stage, plus BFing again through the night. But he sleeps by himself in his room for the first half of the night and I usually end up sleeping in his bed with him at some point during the night until morning. So hopefully we'll get back to long stretches again soon :fingerscrossed:

I've decided to forget about the cot and to buy him a bed to get him into that instead.

Good luck - let us know how you go :)

[BlissedOut]

Subscribing because I have two in my bed doing this!!

[mum3iwish]

Hmm so glad I'm not alone. I have 14mth old refuses to sleep in his cot so I put a mattress on the floor in his room. He has had a cple of day sleeps and I've only managed to get him down successfully once and then he slept for an hour, once awake he totally refused to go back to sleep. I work full time mon-fri and I'm still bf at night. I want to stop but it's proving so hard this time round. Co sleeping has just been easier for me as my DH is away 3wks at a time only prob is it is so hard for DH and I to bd when he's home. I have ds on floor on mattress in my room to start the night but u can guarantee he wakes up at the most inconvenient time lol

[lizzyplus4]

[QUOTE=Electric Boogaloo;6290680]Hi Gypsybum
We have transitioned DS into a bed mattress on the floor of his bedroom.

i was just going to suggest this- it's what i've done with all 4 of mine, that way they still learn it's their bed (so they're not jumping in ours) and i can co-sleep but sneak out once they're asleep, then if you fall asleep putting them back to sleep- no big deal (i tried picking them up for night feed but almost fell over and/or dropped them from pure fatigue!:() ... i found it works great cos if they're having a 'good sleep night you get your own bed and if they're having a bad night you can just stay there... plus hubby has to be up for work at 4am so he gets his sleep too
good luck:fingerscrossed:

[MummyBic]

I currently co-sleep with my 9 month DS. Really interested in hearing more about pediatric osteopath, what is it they did to help? I have see an osteopath and think they're magic.