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Originally Posted by Ammi

..I feel your pain with the sleep thing..my eldest son was the worst sleeper ..(probably picking up on our anxieties because we were so tired..)..when he was very young, he had to have movement and rocking, so we took shifts at pacing the floor with him on a shoulder..

Oh god the rocking... the endless rocking. She also needed "white noise" so we used to rock her in the kitchen with the cooker hood fan on full... and make "shhh shhh shhh shhh" noises at the same time... I think I'm having PTSD thinking about it. When she would finally drift off, we could sit down on the couch, but it was like a stealth mission where any little bump or noise on the way to the couch, or a jolt sitting down, would wake her and it would start all over again.

On the plus side, when she WAS finally asleep, I got through sooo many TV box-sets. Sitting watching BSG for hours at 3am (using headphones, of course) are actually some of my cosiest baby memories too. Bittersweet stuff really!

Oh also my wife was stuck on a waiting list to have a broken wisdom tooth removed for almost 6 weeks at the same time and was in constant agony... I'm actually surprised she DIDN'T go completely insane.

Her sleep was pretty bad up until about 10 months old and then she just started sleeping like a log . Can't get her OUT of her nest in the mornings these days, haha. She does still have a fan on in her room though... we may have set up a life long white noise addiction...