There is hope, though. Somehow, I still have hope. I don't know how I can go to sleep and still think "maybe... I'll wake up and it will be morning", but I still do.
Me! We get stretches of 8-6 nights but then go back to one or two eakeups a night for days on end. Let's just say that when he does sleep thru the night DH and I still wake up and say to each other, "j slept thru last night?!?"
I have raised an army of shitty sleepers it seems. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but hey at least this is my last one?! The older two sleep brilliantly except for when they are sick, so I know there is an end.
I thought DS1 was crappy sleeper when he didn't STTN until 12-13 months and was fairly inconsistent even after that until more like 2-2.5. But it turns out that DS2 was worse. And now I am lucky to get a 3 hour stretch out of DS3 at 8.5 months.
Cheers/FML It seems like everyone I know IRL had great sleepers. I keep getting the "oh, he isn't sleeping through the night yet? Have you tried rice cereal?" Garbage
My "good" sleeper still wakes up twice a night at 19 months. He naps though, which is a change from his sister, and he falls asleep on his own.
My daughter is a sleeping mess. Currently one of us sits with her for about 15 minutes each night as she falls asleep, and then she ends up in our bed sometime between 1 and 5. If it coincides with when I am up to nurse her brother, I will return her to her bed, but only if she is asleep.
She started fighting sleep at about three weeks old and only napped for longer than 45 minutes a handful of times in her life. In addition, she was a middle of the night partier. Luckily when she was little we had no place to go, and is she was next to me we could sleep in until 9:30. She finally slept through the night on her own from about the time her brother was born until last August. I re-broke her by letting her sleep with me over vacation.
Sad confession, I can't drink alcohol at night anymore since I've noticed that when my younger two wake me up in the MOTN, the alcohol makes me extremely irritable and it makes dealing w/ the night wakings much worse for all of us. Even Nyquil is off limits for me right now. I tried it 2 wks ago and I was a mess when they woke me up that night. I yelled and they both cried. It sucked.
Me too- ugh. This is a recent development. I was so excited postpartum to be able to drink again and then I realized that even one drink makes me that much more tired, therefore irritable, when I wake up.
I made a HUGE effort last night to get her very tired & comfortable in the crib. I had given her a long warm bath, fed her, put her in the As+A sleeping bag sack, rocked her & even put a heater in her room...so it was nice & toasty. On the good side I actually got her to stay asleep when I put her down in her crib (this never happens). But it lasted all of a half an hour. All that effort for nothing. Whomp whomp...why can't she just stay asleep??
Cheers/FML It seems like everyone I know IRL had great sleepers. I keep getting the "oh, he isn't sleeping through the night yet? Have you tried rice cereal?" Garbage
Don't worry, they stop asking. I think everyone just assumes toddlers STTN Advice goes down significantly with each child you have. At least the world thinks I have it figured out!
My DS used to be a good sleeper. Which makes the fact that he is waking 3+ times a night even more unbearable. I am pretty sure he is reverse cycling, which is a nightmare. I am so miserable.