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sleeping, again!!
Right, help needed!!
Yup, I'm posting about the same thing again, but seriously, it's getting to the point where at night times if someone offered to adopt my daughter I would probably say yes!
Bubba still wakes in the night, all through the night, every 2-3 hours, she will feed but in the past week hasn't seemed to be drinking as much but I CANNOT get her to sleep, below is what I have tried, any other ideas please let me know because I'm all out of ideas, I'm back at work (albeit only 2 days a week) and I'm nackered!!
- We tried a sort of controlled crying for about a week, she would settle for maybe 5/10 minutes at a time and then cry, this would go on for hours and hours without her ever actually going to sleep for any length of time
- I've tried not talking to her and just covering her up and putting her dummy in, that doesn't work, she just works herself up to a crying eppy that increases in volume
- Tried picking her up, she'll go back to sleep on me but then the absolute second her head touches the mattress to put her back to sleep she starts again
- Tried goodnight milk, she didn't sleep any longer than normal after having it at 10pm
I suppose maybe the last thing left to try is putting her to bed later? She goes to bed at 7pm at which point she is usually tired?
So, what has worked for you, are any of your lo's like this and more importantly do you want to come to my house and sort it out for me whilst I go to bed
Yup, I'm posting about the same thing again, but seriously, it's getting to the point where at night times if someone offered to adopt my daughter I would probably say yes!
Bubba still wakes in the night, all through the night, every 2-3 hours, she will feed but in the past week hasn't seemed to be drinking as much but I CANNOT get her to sleep, below is what I have tried, any other ideas please let me know because I'm all out of ideas, I'm back at work (albeit only 2 days a week) and I'm nackered!!
- We tried a sort of controlled crying for about a week, she would settle for maybe 5/10 minutes at a time and then cry, this would go on for hours and hours without her ever actually going to sleep for any length of time
- I've tried not talking to her and just covering her up and putting her dummy in, that doesn't work, she just works herself up to a crying eppy that increases in volume
- Tried picking her up, she'll go back to sleep on me but then the absolute second her head touches the mattress to put her back to sleep she starts again
- Tried goodnight milk, she didn't sleep any longer than normal after having it at 10pm
I suppose maybe the last thing left to try is putting her to bed later? She goes to bed at 7pm at which point she is usually tired?
So, what has worked for you, are any of your lo's like this and more importantly do you want to come to my house and sort it out for me whilst I go to bed
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Every so often she'll have a really good night and I think "Yes, it's true, I am supermum and I have infact cured my own child through sheer grit and determination, and being close to death from no sleep..." only to find she's back to the old ways again the next night!
At the moment I am trying yet another suggestion from this months weigh in, it goes with the other piece of HV advice which was "oh well, they'll assess her sleeping at her 8 month check, she should really be sleeping longer" hmmmm no sh*t sherlock, thanks for that little nugget!
Anyhoo, I digress, instead of trying to drop a feed and thus basically starving her (previous HV suggestion) I'm cutting down the amount, we've gone from 7 oz bottles to 4 ozs which appears to be lasting her just as long, I'm going to work my way down to less and less the theory being that she will then be hungrier during the day and get used to taking less at night.
Tbh when I looked at it lo doesn't eat a huge amount during the day and so I hope this is the answer!