Any shitty sleepers reform sometime around 1 year?

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Because I'm so sick of trying to sleep train. And I'm sick of not trying to sleep train. I just want some fucking sleep.

Also, I want to revel in my adult right to profanity.

But aside from swearing, I just want to sleep for many hours in a row. My baby turned 1 a couple weeks ago and has never, ever slept longer than about 5 hours. We did Ferber, which got us a kid that happily goes to sleep in his crib on his own... but that will still cry for an hour or more when he wakes up alone later. I think we might try the Sleep Lady Shuffle starting tonight.

[camelblossom]

DD was the worst sleeper until about 14/15 months. She is still a beast if she does need something in the night, but generally sleeps well. We revisited CIO for night wakings at that time because I was pregnant and just couldn't take it. It worked much better than it had a few months earlier.

[shellybelly]

My toddler started to STTN at 14 months. Just recently said toddler has been waking up randomly at 2.5 for a hug. It's too cute to be mad.

[agrippa]

There seemed to always be a reason why DD wasn't sleeping. Every stinking time we started to re-Ferber again, she would get sick, or start teething, or we would travel somewhere, or who knows what else. She started STTN all on her own at sometime around 14.5 months old. I don't know why. She was between teeth and figured out that sleep is awesome? Who knows. We didn't do it, that's for sure. She still wakes for teeth and illnesses, but it isn't nearly as bad as it was. At peak (12-13 months), she was up an average of 3x a night, but 5 wasn't uncommon.

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These responses give me hope that things will work on out their own...eventually I've lost track of how many times she is up a night. Around every two hours, still, at 3.5 months. I'm dreading to see how this will deteriorate around the dreaded "four month wakeful".

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Thank you for the hope, people. I know he has to sleep eventually. Like, seriously, every kid does. Right?

And naturelisa, it's always nice to hear someone else is suffering the same kid I am. I love him. He's awesome by day. He's just a little terrorist every night. I've gone through stages where I was so exhausted, but so scared to sleep because I knew he'd just wake me up again.