Zombie-Mama

[springbride]

DD used to be an angel baby... Should would go down for the night around 6:30p, wake around 11 & 3 for a feeding and then be up at 6:30a for the morning. It was heavenly!
And then...

Around 3.5mo she had some sleep regression and was waking constantly, but eventually returned to our previous schedule

Now she is 5mo 1wk and a sleep terror! She wakes every 45-60 min. She wants to nurse to sleep and then wakes right back up screaming when I unlatch her. I took a 4 hour nap yesterday while DH was home, and it felt more restful than the 3 nights prior combined

She had 2 teeth come in last week, mastered sitting up alone and is starting to rock on her knees, so I know that there is milestone development going on, but I don't know how much longer I can take this!

DH is starting to bring up CIO and something does need to change, but I'm not going there! DD is starting to drastically mess with DH's sleep too and he was late to work this morning

I know it has to get better eventually, you don't see 5yo children doing this, but I need some help in the mean time!
Stories, suggestions... anything!

[Louisep]

No advice, we're still going through it here. Our DS seriously sleep regressed at 5 months. He's now 11 months. Just wanted to say hang in there. You get used to the sleep deprivation and find ways to cope. For me, this is having DH take DS every morning for an hour and on the weekends for 2 hours so I can sleep some more. Lately, DS has even started to accept DH in the night and on Saturday night DH lay with DS until midnight and I slept in the other room, then we switched. Some things have gotten better. We've tried just about everything except CIO and nothing has worked. However, through it all, we've kept up routine and I believe that with time he will get better. We see glimpses of it every so often.

You're not alone, there are lots of us in the same boat and we'll all get through it.