I have been trying to put my 21 week old DD to bed for the last 6 hours. She just can't seem to go to sleep. This has been going on for a month now and I am feeling almost psychotic with the stress caused by lack of sleep. She takes hours and hours to settle to sleep in the evening and once she eventually goes off she will never sleep longer than an hour before waking and needing hours to be settled again.
I have tried breastfeeding her to sleep, rocking, shushing, patting, white noise, swaddling, co-sleeping, I've even resorted to walking away in the desperate hope she'd settle herself. She just gets more and more tired and cries and cries but won't fall asleep. I spend every evening in a dark room, listening to white noise for hours on end, crying while I hold my sobbing baby. The only place she will ever drop off is lying on my chest.
We have a 45 minute bedtime routine of bath and/or massage, bf and lullabies in a dark room with white noise from a dream sheep. I've moved this routine earlier and earlier in the day in the hope of tackling her over-tiredness. In the day she will only nap in the sling or the car seat in a moving car.
I have had so little sleep I feel like I am falling to pieces. I have no family or friends anywhere nearby and my partner won't help out at all overnight. If anyone can tell me why she is impossible to settle or suggest something I haven't tried I would be grateful. I'm willing to try pretty much anything. I don't agree with CIO and feel she's too young for it anyway but am getting absolutely desperate.
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My baby just won't go to sleep and I feel like I'm going mad
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Petcat · 11/10/2013 00:01
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