DD2 wakes every 2 hours overnight for a brief comfort breastfeed, is fed to sleep and is a bottle refuser.
For various long and complex reasons, I'm beginning to wean her off breastfeeding (onto special non-allergic formula), but need to get her sleep sorted first/also.
Stage one was going to be bedtime. We've introduced a routine of sorts (still working out some kinks) and I was hoping to do the "put her down drowsy and sssh-pat until asleep" idea. Except she won't go down drowsy. Even if I feed her until her eyes are really heavy and she's nearly asleep in my arms as I carry her to the cot.
The minute she's in the cot she's wide awake, playing with shadows, chatting, rolling over. It took me 45 minutes of rubbing her back the other night for her even to lie still enough to think about sleeping.
It seems she can either go into the cot fast asleep or wide awake. Nothing in between.
Any advice? My back can't take much more of the patting/rubbing/ssshhing for 45 minutes at a stretch...
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Can't get 14mo to go into cot drowsy
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vvviola · 13/11/2012 09:55
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