sleeping through the night

hi there, I am in the same boat and really struggling. I have done extensive reading though and I think the issue with my LO is just individual differences between babies really, there is nothing I think I am doing wrong, he is just a baby who needs frequent contact and feeding. I am willing to wait it out at the moment as I do think that night waking is normal for some babies. So, I dont have any particular good advice about the problem but I can direct you to this info http://community.babycenter.com/post/a5417415/how_to_successfully_teach_a_baby_to_sleep_-_3rd_ed.
which is really comprehensive. Good luck.

Definitely try the sleepstore Jazz, there are a few different ways of helping your child learn to self settle without 'letting your baby cry till it gives up' method, it can take a few days of less sleep for you but the long term benefits are worth it. My 1st slept thru from about 6/7 months, 2nd isnt but hes sharing his sisters room, so its a little harder to sleep train but I will be starting soon.

Good luck, sometimes you need to do what you have to to and I fully believe there are no lasting bad effects of sleep training, no matter what some will tell you and make you feel guilty about :)

Not for everyone but at 4 months little man was waking every two hours and was so grumpy in the day, started on formula tops ups and pretty much an instant change, my poor man was starving and I was about to have a nervous breakdown, saved my sanity :)

Some babies manage to sleep through the night fairly quickly. For others, it takes longer. However, there are various factors which can affect a baby's sleep. One of the main ones is the number of feeds per day. If you say she has always been waking up during the night, then one of the possible causes is overfeeding. If you feed a baby too often in the first few weeks, she can develop a habit, which can affect her sleeping pattern for many weeks afterwards.

I actually found that learning about normal baby behaviour and expectations is really helpful and how without having cultural expectations of how to deal with babies in an artificial manner and expecting behaviour that is impossible for their age and stage was great :)
I found reading "The continuum concept" an awesome aid in my understanding.

I also co-slept with my youngest daughter from early on (bassinet next to the bed the first 3-4mths and then in our bed till 17ish mths and still part-time at 2yrs) I got so much more sleep than with our first daughter.
I think the problem is not the baby in not sleeping through (that's actually normal) its our culture that expects us to actually have to get up while responding to our babies by putting them in another room that robs us of our sleep causing sleep deprivation. This then causes people to get mad at the baby for not sleeping through (especially when ignoring your baby in various ways will ensure they no longer bother you with their needs) so parents naturally turn to this way of thinking especially when all around them people claim their babies are "sleeping through the night" when except in a small percentage of babies (theres a wide range of normal) this is just plain untrue.

I could claim my 2nd daughter "slept through the night" from 5 mths of age when she moved into our bed as she stopped disturbing my sleep as she no longer needed changing and a quick feed didn't disturb my sleep anymore than all humans normally stir throughout the night in 2 hourly intervals. Its not that she didn't wake at all (no human being actually sleeps through with this definition) its that her needs were responded too so quickly neither of us actually fully woke up.

Can I also add that unless every time you ever woke up and headed off for a midnight snack you now go "No, I'm too old to need food or drink after 7pm!" can you please not expect the same from an infant that has little to no sense of time. Night feeds have extra growth hormones and brain food in them and helps you to keep your supply up. I am not surprised women in our day an age suddenly have supply issues when they are told night feeds are no longer necessary past an arbitrary point in time.