My son is now 18 months old. He has only slept through the night once. ONCE! He’s always been a light drinker when it comes to milk. According to my research, he’s supposed to be around 16-20 ounces/day at this age. We’re lucky if he takes 10. He eats solids fine, but can be totally disinterested at times. He’s just so distracted and needs to be constantly moving.
But then at night, he wakes 2/3 times insisting on milk. Nothing else will cut it and if we try anything else, he just screams louder, pushes harder, and wakes up more.
And he always tries to get nursed before bed. I only allow that when he’s sick but in those cases he sleeps much better. He’ll only wake up once for milk if I nurse him. But sleep consultants have told me that if I breastfed him to go to sleep then he won’t be able to get back to sleep on his own. But he can’t seem to get back to sleep on his own when I don’t nurse him, so what does it matter?
I dunno. I’m just so over it. I’m exhausted. And I feel like there’s so much I’m doing wrong. I can’t get him to sleep, take in enough milk, or kick milk at night.
Please send me your secrets to sleeping.
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