I'm another who used to lie awake for hours if I ever disturbed in the night, and often took hours to get to sleep in the first place. Not so now, I sleep if placed horizontal now pretty much! Although, interestingly, I've had two nights recently of being awake from 4am onwards and unable to get back to sleep. I think there are two things at play there, in both cases she'd not disturbed at all until 4am so I'd slept continuously since 10pm and I'm not used to that; and also I think the new pregnancy has an effect.
Next time I will definitely co-sleep fulltime from the start. We did a part-way thing to begin with last time which was ok, but you just get so much more sleep co-sleeping I wouldn't bother with anything else in future. And in the tough weeks I sent G to sleep in the spare room Mon-Thu so he could function for work, and then he took her away to play from first waking so I got long lie-ins at the weekend.
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Date: 2010-12-20 09:56 am (UTC)Next time I will definitely co-sleep fulltime from the start. We did a part-way thing to begin with last time which was ok, but you just get so much more sleep co-sleeping I wouldn't bother with anything else in future. And in the tough weeks I sent G to sleep in the spare room Mon-Thu so he could function for work, and then he took her away to play from first waking so I got long lie-ins at the weekend.