I had the worst trouble with Kevin sleeping through the night for the first 5 months he was home. He shares my bedroom and I believe that actually added to the problem for a period of time (I'll explain why I say that a bit later). In the beginning, he woke up every 3 hours according to the schedule the FM had him on because he wanted to have his formula. I gave him his bottle right in the crib and he'd go right back to sleep. We were both barely awake.
After a couple months of this, he started waking up for comfort. There was a definite difference in his cries and the bottle didn't soothe him anymore. I was at the end of my rope and brought him into bed with me in desperation. It worked and he would fall asleep on my chest. Most nights he'd start squirming around after a couple of hours because he'd get too hot (he was
never one of those babies that needed bundled up) and I'd get up and put him back in his crib. We'd be good to go for the rest of the night.
Oddly enough, when we were on vacation at Disney in January, I came to realize that him being in my room may have made the problem last longer than it would have. We had rented a house and, for the first time, he had is own room. I was amazed to find him sleeping through the night! Apparently, I'm waking him during the night by sleeping in the same room. Because of space reasons he is still in my room, but
I've been on the couch.
I'm currently working out the potential of putting a wall up on my room so I can go back to my own bed...
Sorry to babble so much...
