Hi,
I have a 5 month old baby who is all over the show, she was sleeping well but now is moving around and waking herself up during the night every couple of hours or so. She moves from back to front but can't get up and ends up waking up every couple of hoUrs throughout the night with arms and or legs out the cot bars or head rammed up against bars or upside down etc.
She's always struggled to sleep during the day, only sleeps if in car or when walking with pram. She usually gets so tired by 6 ish that she can't help falling asleep then but it's too near nap time.
I did controlled crying to get her to sleep at 8pm which worked so I'm going to try Gina ford routine tomorrow and use controlled crying to try and get her to nap.
But how do routines work if I want to go out or take lo to baby group?
Am I sending mixed messages if I try to get her to nap at say 10am every day but then some days I make her stay awake for baby groups? It's really hard to work around the groups as the ones I want to take her to are at different times each day!
Sorry if this is long winded but basically I'm after advice on good easy routines for 5 month olds, and advice on how routines fit into life as I don't want to spend all the time at home following the routines by the hour etc. how does it fit in to normal life?
I hop this makes sense!
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MusicMum18 · 04/09/2015 19:59
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