I have lost count of how many times dd, 10 months wakes in the night...it is way up there!
on good nights, she nurses and goes right back to sleep, on bad nights, she will be completely awake for an hr or so-last night it was fron 4:30-5:30AM!
We co sleep-she WILL NOT sleep with out me at all now-she used to sleep for a few hrs in the evening with out me some nights, but not at all now.
Not only am I tired from no sleep, I am tired from no life! I really really believe in cosleeping and all that, but gosh, this is really hard! DH can take her and she'll sleep in the sling for him, but still, that doesn't give us any time alone at all.
I don't know what to do or how to make this end! Everyone says they grow out of it and eventually learn to sleep on their own, but how? She cries hysterically if I don't nurse her when she wakes, even if I am there patting her back or whatever-then she is wide awake and impossible to get back to sleep.
It is really really hard and I have no answers!
Oh, dd's typical night is like this...7:30 or 8 asleep nursing, or in sling...I put her down in pack and play she sleeps for exactly 1/2 hr and wakes up crying. I pick her up, she falls right back to sleep-generally...put her back down and she wakes back up crying...repeat until I go to bed-usually at 9, sometimes 8:30! I can't leave her in our bed-she is WAY too mobile and I can't relax at all with her in there. If I keep her in the sling, she wakes up when I start talking to dh.
Once I go to bed, she wakes to nurse every 1 1/2 hrs, sometimes she'll do a 2 1/2 hr stretch, but rarely now. Usually she is up for the day between 6:30 and 8, more like 7. Nap 2 hrs after waking-in sling for 40 min-sometimes 2 hrs-totally unpredictable. Nap again in afternoon for about 1 hr-lying in bed with me.
She is really active, very smart, totally happy during the day-doesn't seem at all sleep deprived. She is teething-and has been forever and will be forever-so I can't really use that to explain all these problems!
Sorry for rambling-you are NOT alone!