Daisy's sleeping has showed no signs of improving lately, in fact it seems to be getting worse. She's been waking 4-5 times a night and has needed a feed each time to get her to resettle. We've had a couple of half-hearted attempts at controlled crying, but it just doesn't seem to work as she knows we're there in the room with her. So on Friday night, we decided to try putting her in with Jamie. I was very apprehensive about the whole thing, as he is such a good sleeper and I didn't want to mess that up, but I decided to go with it, as I knew we could always move her back again if it didn't work. And really, it couldn't get much worse than it already was!
So we moved her cot and explained to Jamie what was happening, read them both a story, gave Daisy her final feed and left them to it. On the first night, it took them ages to settle and go to sleep as Jamie kept getting out of bed and running to Daisy's cot, but once they were asleep, Daisy only woke once, at around 2.30am. This pattern has continued and I'm cautiously optimistic that this new arrangement seems to be working. We've learned that the best way of putting them to bed is to read them a story, say goodnight to Jamie, take Daisy out into our bedroom for a feed and then bring her back to Jamie's room, fingers crossed that he's gone to sleep. I also had a chat with him about staying in his bed if Daisy wakes him up crying in the night, and for the last few nights he's barely stirred when she's woken up. She is mainly now only waking up once, which is a huge improvement. We've has several early mornings though, as once one of them stirs, the other wakes up and then that's it - no chance of either going back to sleep. But at least I'm now getting some long stretches of sleep, instead of the very broken nights I was having.
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