DS, now 15 months, has co-slept with us since birth. DD (now almost 3.5) co-slept with us from birth until about 18 months when she started sleeping on her own mattress in a room right next to ours (she does usually STTN now). I am relatively fiercely anti-CIO, and really am willing to go way above and beyond for these infant years when I think closeness and attachment is so important. BUT I also work a full-time outside of the home job that is pretty mentally demanding.  And I am currently mind-numbing, can't form a complete sentence exhausted all.the.time. I think I remember hitting this point with DD, but I can't remember if it was this bad or if I just struggled through it or what (probably because I was so tired!).
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DS usually nurses down around 7:30pm and I'm able to put him on his mattress to sleep for about 30 minutes to an hour. After that he'll fall asleep in my arms or in the Ergo, but won't be put back down unless I lie with him. Then he wakes up 5-6 times a night and always has to nurse back down. He wakes up when I wake up in the morning, which I think is too early for him because he's cranky.
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I'm exhausted, DS isn't getting good sleep, DH is resentful that I'm ignoring him at night, I never get to do the bedtime routine with DD which I really love, etc. etc. It's not working for any of us.
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Anyone else in a tough stage? I can and have sucked it up for worse things, but feeling like I'm neglecting DD's bedtime and that DS is not getting enough sleep is really bothering me. BTDT or solutions? Hope everyone is sleeping well soon :)
Edited by KLM99 - 12/20/10 at 5:59am
