Hi Becs Glad to hear Ilana is doing great! Noah wakes up a lot during the night too (according to my family, the blasted books and the HV).

I usually get 3 hour stretches of sleep. He tends to wake at 10, 12.30. 2.30. 4.30........

At the 10.00 waking i have just started giving him water (as of last night), but tend to feed him the rest of the time. He is put down in his cot in our room, but i always bring him to bed with me from either the 2, or the 4 am feed, and he stays there till we get up

Like you i have periods of thinking 'oh well, its normal for him and wont last forever' to 'OMG he's not doing what he is supposed to be doing.

My mum suggested CC which i did. It was horrific. Yes, i did work for a few days and i did get some nights where i had 5 hour stretches of uninterrupted sleep, but then after a week or two he started slipping back to his habitual routine. I was not prepared to start CC again - its just so, so, so awful (not judging any one who choses to use this method )

So I've tried to do things other peoples way but like you it doesn't work for us. Noah will do things at his own pace. Its for such a short period of time too so i think i should just enjoy that he needs a quick cuddle and a boob in the night. xx

DIZ!!! I've not 'seen' you for ages! How are you? Noah looks even cuter!

We've not tired CC but tried some other 'training' methods a few times and god, she just screamed and screamed and I felt awful... One that worked for a bit was to settle her awake, then not feed her if she woke before 10. After 10, if she woke I fed her but only for 4 minutes each boob, for 2 nights, then 3 for 2 nights, etc... She then settled back to sleep the first few nights... after that she'd just scream the second I took her off the boob! No idea why it stopped working but it was not fun. And when I offered her water instead of the boob you'd have thought I'd offered her acid in a bottle!

Ilana seems to wake about the same intervals... Do we have mischievous psychic babies?!

dupe posts!

hehehehehe.... i think we must have!

Must admit i've been crap at 'keeping in touch' with everyone of late. Especially as a few of us have a PM thread on FB. We'd love to have you if you want to join in? x

No real advice to offer, but can sympathise completely (Jack wakes every 1.5-3 hours all night) and hope you figure something out that works for you all soon

Thank you! It does help. x

Diz, Pm me!

Hi, hon.

Otter was/is the same. He was waking every 2-3 hours all night. Working full time on that sort of sleep deprivation is murder!

I tried many many things to "gently" encourage him to sleep longer. None of them worked. And it was right about Il's age that I was really starting to get desperate. That led to renewed attempts, and renewed failures.

This last week, out of the blue, he has suddenly started sleeping longer! I have no idea why. I guess he is just ready. Out of the last 5 nights, he has had 4 where he has gone a 7 hour stretch between feeds. The only thing I did was allowed him to fuss in his co-sleeper for several minutes before brining him to me to feed. But, TBH, I was doing that before and his fuss would become crying for milk. Now, he fusses for a few and then goes back to sleep.

I wish I had the magic bullet that would get Il there, too. But I don't think it exists. I think you just have to wait for them to be ready. According to "wisdom" Otter should have been at this point MONTHS ago. But he just wasn't ready before now.

Let's just hope it sticks! And that Il gets there very soon, too.

My son is alot older than your LO but I have recently (in the last 3 weeks) gotten him to go longer than 3 hours at night. I moved him out of my bed and into his cot in his own room. He didnt protest at all about the change and after 2 weeks of being in his own room he stopped waking so much. He still wakes about 2 times a night on average but it tends to be around 11 and 5 so I can get a long stretch of sleep. However, it is SO much harder to get up and go into the other room to feed him and i do miss being able to lie in bed and feed him so I wouldnt move your LO until they are a bit older otherwise they might not be ready to sleep longer stretches and then you have made things more difficult for yourself.

Thanks ladies. Well, last night she went from 7pm-3.30am without waking, which was amazing! She went back off quickly after a big feed and snuggled next to me til morning with another cheeky feed to keep her asleep a bit longer... Not exactly hopeful it'll happen again but it did get me some much needed solid sleeeeeeep. Thanks, La!!!

And Otter, thanks. I just keep veering wildly from 'she'll canage when she's ready to' to 'I'm making a rod for my back, she'll never sleep again without being fed' (which my mum keeps saying! If she knew we have the cot next to the bed with the side off and that she sleeps in with me after any night wakings after 1am, she'd have a fit!