spacecadet
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my LO is nearly 4 months old now and since birth i have always got her to sleep by feeding her, we co-sleep too and im starting to get a lot of back pain in bed feeding her, prob spent half of the last 2 nights on my side with my boob in her mouth, itry to bolster myself with pillows etc but am in desperate need for a good comfy nights sleep..
naps during the day are also a nightmare, she just wants to be with me, i feed her then she falls straight asleep on my lap, no matter how deeply asleep i think she is when i move to try to put her in moses basket she wakes up, if i have managed to put her in it she wakes up and gives me the most hurt look ever like ive betrayed her and starts crying!!
cant bear it..
ive tried taking her upstairs to her bed for naps but if i get her to sleep there it only lasts 10 mins max.. (i get her to sleep at night by feeding her on my side with her facing me then gently moving away once shes asleep enough, trying to gently lay her back on hr back which sometimes wakes her up so i have to start over..), during the day for her naps she sometimes will sleep in the buggy but rarely, so i end up sitting with her on my lap comfort sucking for an hour or so, just so she has a good nap!again i try bolster with cushions etc but gets very uncomfortable sometimes.. also means i cant catch up on sleep while she is napping.. i know BF means you do feel chained to the sofa sometimes but not for all her naps too! TBH sometimes im just glad to be able to get on with things, i can do college work while she is on my lap etc.. so i let her.
but it is really getting me down, im starting to feel a bit trapped and worry no one else will ever be able to get her to sleep etc..
so i just wondered if any one else out there has had similar experiances and how they overcame them? i want to get her cot soon and really try to use that instead of the bed, but know i may well have lots of sleepless nights ahead of me.. was thinking of using the pick up-put down technigue as i dont think i could cope with CIO or CC, has anyone had experiance of this??
any tips would be very much welcome as i dont want to have a clingy baby, i want her to be happy and be able to go to sleep on her own and not feel like she needs me to go to sleep! have i left it too late?? i know she is comfort sucking on me but she wont take a dummy unless i hold it in her mouth! (going to buy some more diff ones today se if helps) also if i try to trmove my boob and replace it gently with a dummy she goes mental! or wakes up completely and thinks its funny... if only i could detach my boob...
HELP please what am i supposed to do?? (hope i psted this in the right place - maybe should have been in baby section)
xxx
naps during the day are also a nightmare, she just wants to be with me, i feed her then she falls straight asleep on my lap, no matter how deeply asleep i think she is when i move to try to put her in moses basket she wakes up, if i have managed to put her in it she wakes up and gives me the most hurt look ever like ive betrayed her and starts crying!!

ive tried taking her upstairs to her bed for naps but if i get her to sleep there it only lasts 10 mins max.. (i get her to sleep at night by feeding her on my side with her facing me then gently moving away once shes asleep enough, trying to gently lay her back on hr back which sometimes wakes her up so i have to start over..), during the day for her naps she sometimes will sleep in the buggy but rarely, so i end up sitting with her on my lap comfort sucking for an hour or so, just so she has a good nap!again i try bolster with cushions etc but gets very uncomfortable sometimes.. also means i cant catch up on sleep while she is napping.. i know BF means you do feel chained to the sofa sometimes but not for all her naps too! TBH sometimes im just glad to be able to get on with things, i can do college work while she is on my lap etc.. so i let her.
but it is really getting me down, im starting to feel a bit trapped and worry no one else will ever be able to get her to sleep etc..
so i just wondered if any one else out there has had similar experiances and how they overcame them? i want to get her cot soon and really try to use that instead of the bed, but know i may well have lots of sleepless nights ahead of me.. was thinking of using the pick up-put down technigue as i dont think i could cope with CIO or CC, has anyone had experiance of this??
any tips would be very much welcome as i dont want to have a clingy baby, i want her to be happy and be able to go to sleep on her own and not feel like she needs me to go to sleep! have i left it too late?? i know she is comfort sucking on me but she wont take a dummy unless i hold it in her mouth! (going to buy some more diff ones today se if helps) also if i try to trmove my boob and replace it gently with a dummy she goes mental! or wakes up completely and thinks its funny... if only i could detach my boob...
HELP please what am i supposed to do?? (hope i psted this in the right place - maybe should have been in baby section)
xxx