Dos and Don'ts of Dodos

Forget sleep all together for the first 4 months of Baby's life. Dodos have no pattern, usually last between 15 minutes to 2 hours and never leave mommy enough time to fall asleep after rocking, pumping, eating, interruptions, appointments, showering, cleaning, worrying, making phone calls, crying, filling out paper work etc. I was so sleep deprived that now, a year and a half later, I'm honestly still recovering physically and mentally from that time.

After 4 months, dodos started getting a little bit more regular but Baby still woke up every 2 hours during the night to drink milk up until 16 months, when I decided to stop breast feeding. No breast to sleep meant that I had to put Baby in carrier and bounce on the exercise ball to fall asleep. At some point, this got very tiring so I decided to put Baby in the bed instead, and let him fall asleep on me. A few months ago, experts told me I needed to stop this horrific pattern of co-sleeping so I went back to bouncing on the ball with the baby carrier, but this time transferring him to the crib once asleep. Last week (other) experts told me that I was damaging Baby's "elastic hips" (non medical term) with the baby carrier so now we're back to falling asleep on mommy in the bed. I have to eventually get Baby to fall asleep on his own in his own crib but this seems like an impossible task...

The business of dodos is all so exhausting,