I am a huge fan of your attachment parenting style. I have a 9 month old, and have never let her "cry-it-out". She has slept through the night ONE time - when she was 2 months old. At about 6 months we went from getting 4-5 hour stretches at a time steadily down to now she wakes every 2 hours all night long (and has been for a couple of months or more). She sleeps in a crib in our room, but for the past month the ONLY way I can get her to go back to sleep during these night wakings is to bring her into our bed. Problem is, I don't sleep well with her in the bed. When she wakes up, she is WIDE awake - and due to my eagerness to just go back to sleep, I do what's easiest - nurse her. So, she's nursing all night long every 2 hours or so. When she wakes, she demands to be picked up - if I don't get to her right away, she is SCREAMING hysterically, a mad cry, like she's throwing a tantrum. If I try to put her back in her crib after nursing her to sleep, she wakes and screams again until I bring her into our bed. She spit up a lot until 7 mos. old and was on Zantac. I took her off it once the spitting up stopped, and then wondered if she may still have heartburn. However, after starting her back on the meds the sleeping didn't improve, so I've taken her back off. I just don't understand how she used to sleep well (4-5 hour stretches) when younger and now sleeps so poorly. She can't be getting good quality sleep, when she's wide awake every 2 hours? Suggestions?
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