My lovely little sleeper has turned into an all night screamer.
She slept through really early, from about 8 weeks (I know, I'm lucky). She was in a cot in our room.
At 6 months we moved her into her own room and she was fine, just carried on sleeping through.
Then a few months ago she went from being a fantastic sleeper to one who won't sleep at all in her own room. We tried crying it out which worked brilliantly and after two tough nights she was sleeping through again. Then she started screaming again, only this time she will violently bang her head against the edge of her cot as she knows it will bring us running. We tried her in her padded travel cot (mesh sides) and tried crying it out in that but we broke after she had been screaming and throwing herself against the side for four hours. Non stop. How she didn't drop down with exhaustion I don't know. She won't even lie down.
The second we take her into our room she falls asleep. The second we move her back she starts screaming the place down again. This last week we've ended up co-sleeping as it is the only way we get any rest (and she sleeps all the way through in our bed).
But we really, really don't want to co-sleep. We never have done. It isn't a solution. It also means we can't put her to bed before us. She will just not settle in her cot in the evening. She also won't nap during the day in it at all (although will fall asleep on us if we are downstairs and cuddling her, or will sleep in the car seat).
Nothing has changed in her room at all.
She may be teething but this has been going on for about 6 weeks now and we are at our wits end. She never had problems with previous teeth coming through.
The health visitor said she would try and book us into a sleep clinic but this hasn't happened yet. She has been examined by a paediatrician at the hospital and our GP in the last three weeks and there is nothing wrong with her (that they could find).
Has anybody got any ideas, solutions or been through similar?
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SaltySeaBird · 26/10/2013 20:16
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