Please tell me I’m not alone?

I wish I could give you some advice :/ my son was the same and it only improved when he was almost 2 years old. You could try to remove the association with the breast milk, but it’s really really difficult and it will cause you another problem.

@Ana 2 oh my goodness lol Sometimes I get away with just gently patting her bum or just a little cuddle I feel I’m doomed lol

I had this issue my LO is having much better nights now, she’s 10 months now but 7/8 month she was terrible so hopefully it won’t last long for you xx

Hey , my 1 year old has only just stopped this. It's so hard bit there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

We're the same at nearly 8 months

@Rebecca how are you coping?

I’m the same at 7 months, he always ends up in bed with us now co sleeping because of this it means I can get a bit more shut eye. People are quick to judge tho and tell me I’m making a big mistake because it will be hard to get him out of are bed but if I carried on sitting there throughout the night feeding him there’s no way I would be able to function! You just have to do whatever you have to do to make things better for yourself sometimes xx

I have bedshared since my daughter was 6 weeks, now she is in her floor bed with her being there for second haft of the night. No sleepless nights for us, no exhaustion, loads of cuddles. She breastfeds once a night now, but we don’t have to fully wake up for that. Bedsharing when done safely is equally safe, if not safer as cot sleeping (safer as parents aren’t sleep deprived), and is being accepted by organisations like NHS now. You can read more about it at lullaby trust website, or join Happy coosleeper group on fb/instagram account. Its a myth it creates a bad habit, it creates healthy bond which supports brain development and helps to raise confident and independent humans (read the Nurture revolution book). Only up now as there was terrible storm outside.

@Alex yeah we co sleep too but it doesn’t seem to be working now. It did at the beginning but not now x

@Katerina we co sleep. She was amazing at the beginning she’s wake twice for milk but then at 4 months she got RSV and we was in hospital and she has never been the same since. Not sure If that was a factor but I went from feeling fresh to oh my god you wasn’t even like this when you was a newborn 😭😭

We we the same mine is 9.5 months and we will be up normally every 2 hours xx

Girl, my son is one and he’s still doing that😭 I’ve been trying to wean and do what the internet says to and he rejected them all and never weaned.

Might be a little controversial but if her eyes aren’t actually open have you tried waiting to see how long the crying lasts before her eyes do open? Only suggesting it because my little girl used to do the same thing and I’d rush to her within seconds of her crying and her eyes were also still shut but I left her one day for a few mins watching in the monitor and she settled back to sleep, after researching it it’s quite normal for them to have moments of crying whilst still fully asleep so by going to her straight away I was actually disturbing her and waking her up 🤦🏼‍♀️ I wait now until she’s fully awake and sat up crying before I go to feed, change her etc. Might be common sense advice but as a first time mum I had no idea this was a thing x

@Olivia thats a really good point I noticed that too with my daughter There were occasions she cried, I run and picked her up and that woke her up.

@Olivia I have yeah because like you say sometimes it’s not real as such. I wait and then when she’ll proper crys then I pick her up. Sometimes so can go back off with a little bum pay or even if I just lay my hand her back. But then I sometimes have to intervene lol. Ohh even me being a second time mum actually waking in the night is not normal for me haha. My eldest was amazing at sleeping and still is - although she sleeps talks and walks That’s another story. I heard her the other night and she was climbing in her wardobe to find something 🤣