Oh Kosh,
but glad LO likes the nursery/MIL arrangement. mine is still not happy in nursery and breaks my heart to leave him 
but he doesn't seem to need it anymore. i used to use at bedtime sometimes when Lo was particularly unsettled.
a blankey but didn't work
Oh Kosh,
It's horrid having the feeling of not coping. I frequently feel this way and I know it is down to the lack of sleep and just not being in control of it.
We have to remain strong and believe it WILL get better!
As for people refering to the sleep issues as "bad habits" I hate it too,makes you feel like it's all your fault etc etc.......total rubbish IMO!
Thanks for this Kosh, it makes an interesting read. although he seems to not recommend before 12 months.
I was thinking while brushing my teeth before bed (you see I have very few occasions when I can think ) that I should be a bit more confident in myself because the 'concept' does not apply to us and this and that.......I say this and that because for the life of me I can NOT remember what I thought! to the point I am now thinking whether I might have actually dreamt it??? 
Oh. Dear. God. Alex. Is. Driving. Me. Nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!
By 3 I'd been in and resettled him him 6 times and now he's screaming and has been since 3am. Literally top of his lungs blood curdling screams. Just tantrum screaming, he's not in pain, he just wants out of his cot. He's been doing this every night for a week but I've normally got him to go 7-5 with maybe one wake up. But the last 2days he's refused to nap, and thrown in a few more tantrums for good measure.
I woke OH and asked him to try settle him for the first time in the middle of the night since he was 8 weeks!!
I'm torn between trying to keep him in the cot and settle him in there to try get him out of this habit, and just grabbing him and jumping into the spare bed as I can hear next door moaning and I'm still exhausted from being so poorly and still not 100%.
I know we aren't having the million wakes ups like we were, and you ladies still are having, but sometimes I think I'd rather go back to that. This piercing scream he's learnt to do is grating on me big time, the neighbours must think we are torturing him
and to top it off she was awake from 2-3.30am with a good bit of screaming thrown in for good measure. I did consider waking my OH up but thought what was the point of us both being knackered?! she got up at 6am too for the day.
Awful night here too. Don't think I got a solid hour at all. Had a row with OH in the early hours because every time I got back into bed he was snoring so badly, it really got to me
Managed to get LO down for a nap this morning so I thought I'd sacrifice having a shower in order to nap too. No chance, he woke after 15 minutes.
Feel like I can't do this any more
to you.
I just don't get why he's done from being an absolute angel, to a complete demon in all aspects, in such a short space of time
He's very naughty in the day, probably because he's tired. He will NOT let me eat, and goes ape shit if he sees me put anything in my mouth, even if he doesn't want it and isn't hungry himself. I can't take him out, as he just has a major meltdown the minute we leave the house, he won't eat but cries for food, but takes it out with his hands and throws it wherever he can launch it the second I put it in there.
He's refusing naps, refusing sleep, and when I do get him to sleep it takes 2 hours only for him to wake every half hour?
It's the screeching that's getting to me. My head is literally pounding. I don't think even I could scream any louder than him, but I don't understand why he's doing it
I got just over two hours between about 12.30 and 2, was up with him 3 until 6.30, then he woke for the day at 7.30. Where's my baby gone who slept 7pm-9.30am?!?
Maybe he's hit the terrible twos early
Between Alex being a demon and OH being a complete asshole, I just feel like getting in my car, driving off and never coming back
Not helping that I'm still feeling weak and poorly as I've had a cold for 3 weeks and had a 3 day tummy bug last week, and had no help looking after LO
god help us! anyway, just a thoughtMaybe he's hit the terrible twos early
Between Alex being a demon and OH being a complete asshole, I just feel like getting in my car, driving off and never coming back
Not helping that I'm still feeling weak and poorly as I've had a cold for 3 weeks and had a 3 day tummy bug last week, and had no help looking after LO
Oh Gemma, it's so rubbish isn't it?! I feel for you, infact I feel for all of us!
I can only imagine what the terrible 2's will be like!
I'm lucky that my OH will take Lucy at weekends and let me rest but it all goes to pot as soon as I have one bad night in the working week as I am obviously left to cope with it while he has to go to work. If anyone thinks being a SAHM is easy is soooooo wrong.
Gemma,whereabouts in Surrey are you again? perhaps we should meet for a coffee to unload? all my friends seem to have babies that sttn and are angels
I find it so unfair that I got nights dangled in front of me where he woke only twice for a bottle and even did a few where he woke only once, to have them snatched away again 
