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Any ideas how to get my good sleeper back?
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Since my little girl (nearly 9 months) started crawling she has stopped sleeping. Yesterday she had 40 min nap in her cot in the morning and a 2 hour snooze in the afternoon in her buggy which was treally good, but she went to bed at 8 as she was dropping and then woke every half an hour till 11. She woke once in the middkle of the night and then got up at 6. Today she has had a hour this morning, only 10 mins this afternoon both in her cot and has just gone to bed. We worked really hard to teach her to settle herself and always put her to bed awake, but now she is just crawling round the cot, pulling herself up and shouting. I leave her crying and it all goes quiet so I peep in and she uis sat up in the cot sucking her thumb and then starts shouting or crying if she see's me. She even climbed out of the cot one night last week - we just heard a big bang and screaming and she was on the bedroom floor! I just dont know how to get her back to being a good sleeper, apart from sticking her to her cot with velcro. Im now rocking her till her eyes start closing and putting her in the cot half asleep and hoping for the best, but she is a big girl and its killing my back. Its driving me mad, I go back to work soon and I have a nearly 3 year old as well who is and always has been a bad sleeper. Has anyone got any advice? Thanks Jo xx
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This is why I am not too worried about routines - I have witnessed too many times, babies just change the routine when it is all nice and settled. They get clever and wise lol.
If you are ok with cc (I personally am not) then I wld do that rather than just leaving her to cry. Have you tried the whole going back in the room, soothing etc??
Have you tried sitting next to her cot and soothing her to sleep?
I am not sure hunny - I am useless at this stuff!! xxxx
Also, I would try not to go in once she's quiet at least for 5 or 10 minutes to give her chance to get to sleep properly. I try not to go in at all to my lo once he's quiet because sometimes the tiniest little peep from me disturbs him and wakes him then it's hell trying to get him back to sleep.
Good luck. x
However, I think Toby crawling also made his silent reflux symptoms come back quite badly as we ended up getting him a prescription for ranitidine and as soon as he started taking that, he began sleeping through again. I don't think the crawling in his sleep business would have gone on as long if it hadn't been for his silent reflux.
Unfortunately a sleeping bag didn't stop Toby - he still crawled and wriggled as much.
Sorry not to help anymore but I can promise it will get better!
xxxxx