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sarasal 
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 Posted: 09 July 2011 at 11:49am |
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DS's sleep improved heaps around the time he turned 2, and he started sleeping reliably right through the night somewhere between 2 - 2.5. It coincided with the end of teething, which we had a terrible time with. He really needed comfort at night when he was in pain or sick.
We co-slept and breastfed through the night right up until he started sleeping through on his own.
Hang in there, you will get to sleep full nights again one day :) And good on you for caring for your baby through the night... it is really good for him to know you are there for him.
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caliandjack
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Posted: 09 July 2011 at 3:01pm |
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It is good to know they will sort it out themselves, we've had a challenging couple of nights with DD waking 3 and 4 hourly and then every hour from 2am last night the only way she would settle was in my arms, which is difficult for me to get any sleep in the middle of the night.
I can't handle her crying/screaming, DD doesn't co-sleep very well.
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Posted: 09 July 2011 at 7:51pm |
Good to hear sarasal :-) Caliandjack, been there and still go there occasionally. I think my son just has a really low pain tolerance. So if he is sick, teething or uncomfortable he will cry out for me. His sleep improved over the last few weeks to waking only once (other times but putting himself back to sleep) but now he is sick AGAIN so no doubt the sleeping will go out the window :-) It has helped to stop fighting it and just accept that this is the way it is for now 
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Posted: 10 July 2011 at 11:41pm |
We're finally getting a few more sleep throughs, last night was 6.45pm-7am which was awesome and we had a 8-6 two nights before so the sleep throughs are getting closer together. Every time he's sick or teething we go back to lots of wake ups, but the last tooth (out of the first 16) is nearly through so I'm hoping that we might start seeing more and more sleep throughs!
Now I just need to be able to get rid of this pregnancy insomnia before baby #2 arrives so I can have a wee bit of sleep in between 
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caliandjack
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 7:54am |
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DD is going thru a very unsettled time and I'm struggling to get enough sleep, is this an 8 month old phase? Will it pass?
Feeding her doesn't work it calms her as soon as she goes back into her cot she starts crying/screaming again.
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Nikki
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 10:40am |
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Seperation anxiety starting? does she get upset if you leave the room during the day too? (I can't quite remember back that far now - maybe I've blocked it all out!)
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caliandjack
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 5:06pm |
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No during the day she's mostly fine.- I've taken her to creche for the first time today and she was fine, she hasn't spent any time away from me in the last 3 months since DH has been away with work.
She has been waking at night after less than a couple of hours asleep which is new for her, normally she'll do a good 5 hour stretch at the beginning of the night.
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sarasal
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 7:09pm |
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Around that 8 month time was a nightmare for DS's sleep - heaps of teething going on and also it's around the time of learning to crawl, so heaps of brain development going on.
They do go through those difficult periods - for us they'd usually last a few weeks at a time. In hindsight, each time I realised there had been a reason for it, eg pain/illness/growth spurt/developmental milestones, so I wished I'd been more patient.
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Posted: 11 July 2011 at 7:25pm |
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DD has started crawling and she's now busy trying to pull herself up, I guess its knowing that it won't last and I just have to be patient and work thru it with her.
Knowing that its normal and that it will end eventually makes it a little easier to cope with and get through.
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Posted: 13 July 2011 at 7:01pm |
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Yip, my DS definitely had sleep issues around the 8 month mark. No doubt your wee one is working through the crawling and pulling up so that is keeping her (and you) up at night :-)
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Posted: 13 July 2011 at 9:41pm |
Oh yeah developmental milestones like crawling and walking seem to do it too. And theres usually teething going on around then as well. Its all just a phases normally and will settle back down in a week or two. 
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