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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
any one else have a poor sleeper?
so ds#3 has been a bad sleeper from the start. I was hoping it would pass but it has not. He rarely sleeps more than 3 hours at night (on average he wakes up ever 1.5-2 hours at night) During the day he takes 3 very short naps (30 mins or less). the last few days he has been trying to drop down to 1 nap in the morning still very short too. I don't know what to do w/ him anymore. We have tried just about every sleep training method out there. I can't even remember the last time I got more than 5 hours of sleep at night (since dh gets up at 3:30 am 6 days a week for work i am the one who always gets up w/ him). Even if I go in and hold him at night he still wakes just as much. Nothing seems to work and there doesn't seem to be any reason why he won't/can't sleep.
I figured by the third child I would have this whole sleep thing figured out but he is just such an awful sleeper. Even worse than my first who was a very difficult baby. At this point i have given up b.c we are getting ready to move and any progress I did make would probably just regress when we moved.
Don't know what I'm looking for other than just a place to vent to others who might get this.
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Re: any one else have a poor sleeper?
What sleep training methods have you tried? My son did not sleep through the night until 11 months. I was up every 2 hours until 5 months when I finally just let him cry. I started with Ferber, where you check on him, but I soon learned the only way he would go down was to not check on him at all. He was also one that holding him only got him more upset (so co-sleeping was out of the question) and if he knew you were there he just went more hysterical. Once I stopped going in at all, he fell asleep after 20-30 minutes of screaming. Over time it varied; sometimes it was an hour of crying, other nights it was just one yelp before he conked out. But he learned how to self soothe and now (at a year) he can put himself to sleep no problem. BUT even with that learned skill, he still woke up at least once a night until 11 months. I work full time so I've been living a zombie life for a year now, I totally get your pain. And since I nursed DS for that year, my husband got to enjoy sleep every night while I went up and down stairs 3-5 times a night.
If you really have tried everything, have you gotten DS checked out by the pedi to make sure there is nothing medically wrong that might be impairing his ability to sleep? Perhaps he's teething or has an ear infection. Hang in there!