Has anyone started co sleeping 12m+ to fix a sleep problem?

I am beyond breaking point with Jaydens sleep. I am usually in tears at least once every night. I have been sleep deprived for going on 11 months. It's partly my fault for the habbits we got into but nothing I can do about that now. He is fed to sleep and cannot self settle. He wakes between 4-8 times a night and then wakes at 5am. Lastnight was awful (teeth were bad) and by 2am I had lost count but was up to about 12 times. I took him in with me and he seemed to sleep much better. I didn't unfortunately :(. Anyone have any experiences or opinions they could share? X

Yup we did after a bout of croup left her with asthma (although we didn't know that's what it was).  She used to spend hours and hours coughing each night but if I was in bed with her I could rub her back and relieve her

We still co-sleep for part of the night now at nearly 3.

E was still feeding a lot in the night - I used to feed her lying down and drift back of to sleep

we all got more sleep

D is 17 months and has never really slept through. He will always waken up once which I used to deal with by cuddling or shushing back to sleep... Sometimes for up to an hour,  he would then get up for the day at 5ish.

However, I'm now my 3rd trimester of a twin pregnancy and find our routine too difficult so I've been bringing him in with me and H moves to the spare bed. When he's close to me D will sleep until 6, 7 or sometimes 8 and I feel much better.

I know it's not ideal and I've had all the 'rod for your own back' comments but frankly I'd rather get some sleep than follow the supposed 'rules'.

You poor thing, sleep deprivation is terrible. I would go with what works for now - teething is hard on babies. Once he's over this bout of teething then you can look at improving his sleep at other times. But I think when they're ill/in pain go with what works. Once he's feeling better you can then look at strategies for breaking the feeding to sleep cycle.

We still sleep with my two year old when she wakes up at night. Its quite common to do this in fact.

Thanks ladies, i didn't know if i was insane to consider it so late or not.  good to hear that it has worked for you.  I know i need to tackle the feed to sleep situation, but i'm far to tired at the moment! I just want us all to get back to sleep as soon as possible!

i'm going to give it a try the next few nights and bring him in with me when he wakes and see what happens

x

Yes we did and it really helped me get more sleep. Sometimes she didn't wake as much but even if she woke a few times I didn't feel nearly as tired as if I had to get out of bed. I still have Zoe in with me but Emily moved into her own bed a few months ago and was doing quite well, but now annoyingly she's started waking a lot and it's much worse toing and froing than when she was co sleeping.

If it means you get some sleep I would go with it, my daughter has never been a great sleeper and we have co slept on and off for the last 2 years.  We moved her into a big bed at 18 months which really helped, she never really liked her cot for some reason.  She now sleeps through till 5.30/6 and then comes in with us and sleeps till about 8am, bliss, but if she does wake in the night she tends to come in and snuggles down, I don't worry about it anymore, whatever works Im happy with.