So, my husband and I are about at our wit’s end with our son’s sleep and have no idea what to do to help fix it. All of us are suffering (especially me, as I’m 6 weeks pregnant and alwaaaays exhausted!!) because of it right now. Even though we always said we were not going to do sleep training (CIO, etc.) that may be our only option at this point. We just don’t know what to do!

DS, who is a few days shy of 5 months old, goes to bed easily – somewhere around 6:30-7:00pm every night. We have a good sleep routine set up for him – nursing, diaper change, pajamas on, Magic sleep suit on, and then he goes into his bed without a peep and falls asleep. He used to sleep for 7 or 8 hours straight before a night feed around 3am, then back to his own bed until about 5, and then he comes to bed with us for the last couple hours of the night.

Lately, however, he still goes to bed easily and then has his first wake up around 10pm – and he wakes up every hour or so after that point. He will go to sleep for a longer stretch if we bring him to our bed at that point, but he’s so squirmy these days that neither DH or I sleep and it usually ends up with him waking at 2 or 3 ready to play or ready to get up for the day! He doesn’t seem to want to nurse and he’ll just spit out his pacifier if we try to put it in. He seems to just be done with sleep at that point.

Last night he went to bed at 6:30, woke at 10, and I nursed him until about 10:20. We put him back in his bed and at that point he screamed until 11 when we broke down and decided to bring him to bed with us. At 3 he woke up and did not want to go back down. We tried everything and finally at 3:50 put him back in his own bed and he screamed from then until about 5. He fell asleep again for another 45 minutes.

Additionally, he used to nap 3 times a day – (2) 1.5 hour naps and 1 shorter one and lately he’s had 3 naps a day and we’re lucky if they are for 45 minutes. He never used to fight them, and now he fights and cries before going down.

I just don’t know how to help our little guy. I know he needs sleep, even if he doesn’t believe that, but it just seems like he has realized he can control us in this area and as it’s our first child and we’ve had an easy go on the sleep front before now – I’m not sure how to help him sleep!