Here is how yesterday looked:
8:00 am wake up
11:00 am sleep (i wasn't here, he was with babysitter so not exactly sure)
1;30pm-wake up
4:15 pm-sleep
5:00 pm-wake up
7:30-sleep for the night
then he kept waking up the whole night. i nurse him and he will be sleeping. then 5 min later just as i am getting settled back to sleep he start crying. i rock him for 10 min put him back down. again just as i am falling back asleep he wakes up again cuz his paci fell out and again i need to rock him or pat him. over and over and over and over. i DREAD the nights. i barely sleep and even when i am sleeping i am sleeping with one eye open cuz i know he's going to wake up again. he woke up 6 am to nurse and then he kept waking up every 5 minutes. i had no patience anymore so i just took him out of the room and unswaddled him. he was definitely not finished sleeping yet but i have no patience anymore. i really can't do this anymore. i totally loose it in middle of the night.
at 3.5 months i taught him to fall asleep by himself but we went on a trip in the beg of October and his schedule got messed up so we resorted to rocking him and have been ever since. when its sleep time. after winddown i swaddle him up, put a dark blanket over him, blast white noise from the computer and he is usually asleep within 5 min. i thought maybe he would sleep better if he knew how to put himself to sleep so last friday i started sleep training him again. as long as a do a proper winddown and i catch him at EXACTLY the right time he generally can fall asleep by himself. the problem is that if its not EXACTLY the right time then it takes forever. the other big problem is that i also have a toddler (2.5 yr old) and she is not patient at all while i put him down. she comes into the room and wants me to come play and makes a lot of noise. i have tried setting her up with things before i start putting him down but she always just wants me. also he usually wakes up at least once during every nap and i am usually desperate for him to sleep longer (especially if its a nap that my older one is also taking a nap-he is impossible to keep happy when she is not around for entertainment) so i resort to the rocking, swaddling, white noise. also at bedtime i am by myself so depending when he needs to go to sleep i am not always able to put the older one down first but then i don't have 45 min to help him fall asleep by himself (pick up/put down, patting, paci). Because i am inconsistent with the pick up/put down, i feel like its not fair to do it with him.
URGH!!! thats my whole sob story. please i desperately need help
oh also i am nursing him and giving him solids 2 or 3 times a day. the last time we went to the dr, he said his weight was not worrisome but on the low end so thats when we started him on solids. next dr appt is next thur so i'm not sure how the weight is going.
thank you!