My DS2 is a lovely spirited baby, but despite he is 13 MO, he still does not STTN. In fact he wakes up a lot. Since he was borned he never was a good sleeper, although we have seen some improvements. He is an independent sleeper for BT and nap. We place him awake in the crib and falls asleep quickly, alone and by himself. No pacifier, no nursing or extra help. His father and I are extremelly tired and we do not know what else we could try.
Every time he wakes up, he calls us crying, then my husband or I go with him, sometimes we manage to soothe him with words, other times we have to touch his hand, and then he returns to sleep. He has only STTN 4 days in his life, when we switched from 2 naps to 1 nap, and then he resumed waking up a lot. Also, we left him one night with his grandparents and only woke up once (but they followed the same routine, I gave them everything written down, so we do not know what was their magic :-)).
He sleeps from 20.00 to 7:30, 11.5 hours in total, and he naps for 1.5hours. He is a good eater, and we have already rooled out the "hunger" posibility, since we also tested a couple of nights to offer him a bottle on his first NW and still woke up again later. We keep his routine and his timing for food and nap exactly the same every day. He wakes up happy in the morning, and he does not seem OT during the day, only the last 30 minutes before BT he seems a little cranky.
His NWs are not at the same time every night, he tends to wake for example at 23:00 and 2:00. Or at 0:00, 2:00 and 5.00. If we see him clearly in pain because he is teething, or with belly pain, we do medicate (but this does not make a great diference either).
His room is totally dark, silent, the temperature is stable with a thermostat and he is not sweating or too cold. We have also asked his pediatrician and gave us no suggestions, just wait and see
Any suggestions? If it is just a little of hand holding I will also appreciate it.
