Am tired (what else?!) and weepy after another night of constant bf-ing and yet another failed attempt at getting dd to have a morning nap in cot. Could waffle on for hours, but basically I want to know: am I the only person too feeble to manage any kind of sleep training?? I have only tried shush-pat type things a couple of times, and cave in after about 90 seconds. Dd gets totally hysterical, so do I, and as usual she is now having a lovely nap in sling. Does this matter? Should I just find a bit more backbone? Feel like friends/family think I'm just a bit of a silly hippy.
She won't go in car seat without total meltdown, or pram, so it's sling for naps pretty much all day, every day. Bedtime routine is all nice, but then... sling until 10pm, then co-sleeping, which used to work but is increasingly fraught as she wakes up when I feed her, rather than nods off. Ideally she would like to be in the sling all night too, I think! I usually end up propped up in bed with her sprawled across me.
Have two other dcs, and some days I can manage it all (and just go with the flow, and ignore feeling that I should have sorted this sleeping thing out by now), but today apparently all I can do is sniffle into my coffee. I should add that she is heavenly sunny girl when awake...
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Please help me with co-sleeping, sling-dependent, cot/pram/car-refusing 5 month old
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WearyWalker · 28/02/2013 10:53
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