Only freedom will do

LadyGnome

You are missing a trick. You need to start posting DD doesn't need to sleep much, she is so interested in the world, its all we can do to keep up with her.;)

They'll soon be boasting about how badly their child sleeps:D

Darpett

Ah the Mummy (and Daddy) !!!!!, try not to let it get to you.

Many of those people will be just as insecure and saying things to reassure themselves as much as anything. I had two children (young adults now), one slept well and still does, one did not and still doesn't. Same upbringing and regimes.

It will pass although I can remember it felt like an eternity - and don't even get started on the potty training or reading competitiveness - that way madness lies...

Darpett

Seriously m a f i a is a swear word???

edinburgher

Yes, apparently I can't describe people as bottoms either

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

All we hear from friends is how awesome all their children are at sleeping - we feel like it's something that we're doing wrong

Their children are just biding their time till their parents reach the required level of smugness. Then they'll let rip :rotfl:

LadyGnome wrote: »

You are missing a trick. You need to start posting DD doesn't need to sleep much, she is so interested in the world, its all we can do to keep up with her.;)

They'll soon be boasting about how badly their child sleeps:D

:T:rotfl::T:rotfl::T

Goldiegirl

edinburgher wrote: »

All we hear from friends is how awesome all their children are at sleeping - we feel like it's something that we're doing wrong

The wedding requires an overnight stay, was able to book a Prem1er Inn a while back for a fair cost, so at least that part is covered.

According to my mum I barely slept for the first 18 months of my life, and she used to get sick of all the perfect babies that her friends apparently had.


It's nothing you are doing wrong, it's just that your little girl doesn't need as much sleep

turtlemoose

here's a bit of honesty and consolation from the internet - my son recently started sleeping through (around 11 hours). He started this 3 days before his 4th birthday.

We were only ever able to slightly improve his sleeping, once we reached his peak then there was no more improving to do. But I'd highly recommend "no cry sleep solution" by Elizabeth Pantley - check it out from the library and see what you think. For us, this book really helped with bedtimes and getting him calm/falling asleep much quicker. It's the staying asleep that was always my son's problem !

(PS my son has/had night terrors, unfortunately the paediatrician we were referred to says there is no 'cure' they just grow out of them - but that's why he never slept.)

the_end_of_the_rainbow

My son slept through the night at 6 weeks and had 2 x 3 hour sleeps a day as well (and being a teenager, he will still sleep til lunchtime if you let him) - I was probably one of those parents that boosted (about being bored mainly!)

My daughter didn't sleep through the night until she was 7 (years, not months :eek:). As a baby, I was lucky if she slept for more than 20 minutes in the daytime (in pushchair being rocked). She still gets up at the crack of dawn each day.

edinburgher

Thanks for the book suggestion TM, will see if Mrs E has already read that one or not.

slowlyfading

edinburgher wrote: »

All we hear from friends is how awesome all their children are at sleeping - we feel like it's something that we're doing wrong

Urgh, I so hear you on this one. It feels like every other baby in the world sleeps and our DS doesn't. A while back I was posting as he was waking up every hour in the night, and we were exhausted. Since he's began crawling it's got slightly better and get at least a four hour stretch at some point during the night. However, I'm so sick of other people saying that it gets better, that he's going to be really bright because he doesn't sleep. I miss sleep! It also makes me feel like we're doing something wrong, when I think we're trying to follow most of the advice out there.

He'll get it eventually.. that's what I keep telling myself anyway