My goodness ladies when will it ever end!! Wanted to say thankyou Jill,i shall think of you hun when im pacing the floor lol!! Cody is still in a cot in our room as we are stuck in a very small 2 bedroom house & we are trying to save up so we can move to a bigger house. Also i cannot put Cody in with my older son as he gets disturbed nights as it is & we worry about it effecting his school days I know im not the only one suffering out there,& i truly hope it can only get better for all of us very soon! Thanks everyone for your advice & kind words,i can always trust Bounty pals to help me whe im feeling low! Hugs & kisses to you all, Hayley xxxx

http://www.babysleepanswers.co.uk/Forum/

When i was having an awful time with my lo and I thought I would never see the inside of my eyelids ever again and that I would always be a zombie, I stumbled across this website.  I did buy the book, which for me personally was the best £10 I spent and with it you get membership to post on the forum.  The book is very basic and to be honest doesn't have any new information in it, it is just in an easy to read format and my lo was 20 weeks when I started using it.  It helped me to see straight and gain the strength to get through.  But the forum has loads of posts on it and I am sure you will find someone with the same problem as you and you can see the advice they give.

My lo does now sleep from 7pm to 7am and takes good naps during the day but it did take some work and I am glad I did it.  Hth's.

She's just a baby terror Lara - my (affectionate) nickname for her is baby baggage lol!!

Going to get her into own room over weekend ( if I can get other half to finish it for me!). Got to do it some time I suppose! xx 

Just to add, Chloey has been in a good routine since 12 weeks old, goes to bed at 7.30pm with 4 - 6 oz milk, and always is awake when I put her down (so not reliant on me to get off to sleep).

She has two 30 - 45 min naps a day, and eats very well

xx

Hi Lara,

I tried Chloey in her own room when we went on hol to Italy, and was a total nightmare!! She was in travel cot, but woke at least twice as often! I was a complete zombie - only saving grace was that hub gave me a coupla lie in's that week (a rare luxury haha)

Luckily for me, she is a brilliant baby in all other aspects (apart from being a little grumpy after really bad nights).

She's a little monkey, but I still love her to bits xx

Poor you.

Can I ask when you and your baby first started sleeping separately?

G

my lo is exactly the same she is 7months old and has never slept right thru and the last two weeks have been horrendous she is waking every half an hour screaming. i'm at my wits end cos i'm miserably tired and dont know what to do. i know she's not hungry cos she is eating 3 meals a day and drinking plenty but i feel like she will never sleep thru. i really cant survive on broken sleep i'm barely getting four hours sleep and that is broken up please some1 tell me that she will go thru eventually

So glad you posted this - as I was going to post it too!

Chloey is ten months old, and has never slept for more than 6 hours straight!!

When preggers, I was up around 5 times a night to wee, and Chloey was only 5lb3oz at birth so fed every 2 hours. Weaning improved things, but she still wakes frequently during the night (so much so that she is still in our bedroom - bad I know, but better that having to get up and go into another room countless times during night!)

I know that we are not disturbing her, as her antics start long before hubby and me go to bed. She's just about to cut her 2nd tooth, so that's adding to the probs at mo.

Last night she woke at 10pm, 11pm, 12.30, 1.30 and finally settled 2.30 til 6.30 - the night before she woke at 3am and stayed wide (and I do mean WIDE!!) awake til 5.50am!!!!!!!

I've tried Calpol, Calpol night, baby Ibuprofen, teething gel, teething powders, dummy, soother blankets, bottle juice, bottle water, cuddles.......... u name it I've tried!!

I just keep thinking that it won't be forever........... I'm sure she'll be sleeping through and in her own room by the time she's 16 haha!

When you're awake so much in the small hours, and despairing and feeling low - just think of me because I'll be right there with you! xxxxxxxxx

A combination of dummy and/or teething gel/nelsons teetha granules/ashton and parsons/calpol/medised work

Your LO is in pain. You have to help them anyway you can. The above things (combined with dummy for us as after 4 months of hell,all she had been needing was a dummy in the end, now 8 months) give gives pain relief. What did your mum give you?????

Your LO will suffer no side effects from medised. You would be helping LO!!!

Hi ladies,thanks so much for your replys & its nice to know im certainly not alone! I have tried dummies,all various types,to no avail,he just wont touch one!! He had a very small breast feed last night,but decided from 1am-2.30am he was going to stay awake & fuss! We gave him teething gel just incase & offered him sips of weak baby juice but he wont take a last breast feed at night now,so hes not even having a good last feed to fill him up for a few hours.

We really are desperate,i find myself feeling like im losing the plot,& i feel health visitors are no help at all.I even asked at a pharmacy the other day about Medesed,& im the type of person who hates ANY form of medication...i wont even take a paracetamol for a headache until hubby nags me too!! Medesed apparantley is a pain relief (good for teething pain) but also aids sleep...i then felt bad for even considering it as i feel id be 'drugging' my baby! The pharmacist had the chhek to ask if we tried other alternitives such as the obvious 'teething gel'!! I was shocked to say the least & wanted to swing for her!!!

Now im worrying that because hes not having any milk,hes waking because hes constantly hungry,but then i think if he was hungry then he would take breast milk at night! Im really on the brink of distruction,im ill because of lack of sleep,swollen lymph nodes in neck etc...just cant see any light at the end of the tunnel.I cannot for the life of me understand how my first baby boy was so different,i didnt know i had him! i feel i am going to cry just typing this

Hi Version girl.  How does your ds get off to sleep?  Do you feed him to sleep?  I only ask because I used to do that and then my lo needed me to get off to sleep everytime he woke - which was a lot!  So the Health Visitor suggested I give him something other than me to self soothe.  Which was when i introduced the dummy.  He slept longer with a dummy - but I did have to replace it a few times a night.  Then I found out about this baby comforter - Sleepytot from www.sleepytot.com which you can put four dummies on to.  It's so clever - I carred the comforter up my jumper on the day I got it and then put him to bed with it on night one.  Then when DS woke, I helped him to find his comforter and the dummy. It took a few nights and he cried a little bit on the final night, before giving up and finding teh dummy himself.  It's been so good because he can self soothe.  So now he naps well and sleeps all night.  Maybe you could try somethig like that?  And if he doesn't like to be restricted by a sleeping bag - just but him in a nice warm baby gro. 

Poor you.  It will be over soon. x

my lo is a fidget bum and sleeping bags have been great but when he starts standing up i might have to change him into soething else. i found these the other day so might be an alternative for you to sleeping bags http://www.laredoute.co.uk/style/babys-sleeping-bag-with-sleeves-convertible-version-by-vertbaudet.aspx?productid=v702293013&documentid=v389&compan***=r&path=2/11053/11518&source=

You have my complete sympathy. My son is 8 months and I haven't had a decent nights sleep since before my eldest was born and he is 3 now. My SPD didn't go away between the two of them which meant I never slept properly, he also woke many times in the night until quite old and then I fell pregnant again and the cycle continued. Now, my SPD pain is a lot better and I would sleep through if I could, but my youngest still doesn't sleep through the night. He never has. He goes to bed at 8pm. Last night I went up to him about 6/7 times in the first hour (that was a bad night). Normally he wakes at about 11pm and then about every 2 hours in the night (feels like every 15 mins like you say though) until he wakes at about 5am This morning my hubby had to tell me to calm down because I was so tired and wound up, muttering about why is he still doing this at 8 months old and I just want some sleep!

All I can say is (most) grow out of it. My eldest became an angel at night, typically while I was pregnant the second time around, so the disturbed nights will not last for ever. I have no advice on how to try and stop it because I've also tried everything. The only thing I haven't done in the night is like you, controlled crying, because it would wake my 3 year old up and that would be even worse!

((hugs)) because lack of sleep is horrible.

Is it just me or has anyone else honestly never had a full nights sleep since even being pregnant?? I got SPD with my second pregnancy from around 3/4 months,and suffered really bad all the way to the end,then continued to suffer a few months after,making sleep unbearable! To top that off,i decided to breast feed again & to be honest its been a complete nightmare! I loved all the closeness of it,but it made my 2nd baby very clingy! He has also always been a poor sleeper,has teethed from 3 months old non stop,& is still a complete fidget at night!! Im pulling my hair out,as it doesnt matter what we try, both myself & my husband are like walking zombies!! Hubby works full time,and is constantly knackered bless him, i also have a 6 year old who has to get up for school...its all really bad at the moment! Its all gone on for so long now,we just dont know what to do.All people advise is the controlled crying,i dont honestly believe in it as we have tried many times & miserably failed!! I cant have my baby crying for long amounts of time as not fair on my 6 year old! We have tried a sleeping bag (not brilliant on a very active 10 month old) he also kicks covers off all the time,just keeps waking every what seems like 15 minutes!! Glad to say we got 6 hours sleep the other night which was a first in i dont know how long! Sorry to rambleon...just getting very desperate! As a result now i have painful swollen lymph nodes in my neck doctors say because im sooo run down!!! Arrrggghhh!!! HELP!!!