DD is nearly 9mo and for the past few days we've been having the same crappy sleep issues.
If she wakes in the night she won't go back in the cot. She won't even let me get into bed with her, or sit up against the headboard. She wants me sitting up on the edge of the bed holding her. The second I move she starts thrashing and screaming and doesn't stop until I go back to the edge. This can go on for 3hrs and I can't take it anymore. She won't sleep for DH or anybody else, it has to be me or she goes nuts.
To go to sleep she needs (both naps and bed):
- Bedroom, dark and quiet
- White noise (don't always use it for night wake ups)
- Thumb and a muslin to hold
- Me (VERY occasionally will go for a nap with DH but never bedtime)
- Rocking on edge of the bed (used to need walking around bedroom so this is an improvement)
No car or buggy naps anymore, she just screams. I feel so trapped but that's another matter.
She's slept through many many times, and before now waking in the night meant a quick cuddle and back to bed. But now it's not working and I'm at the end of my tether. I dread going to bed. Her daytime naps make no difference as to whether this happens or not, and she falls asleep as soon as she's on my lap. It's when I move AT ALL that she wakes up screaming. I've tried leaving her but that wakes her up even more and then it goes on for longer.
I can't do it any more, I just can't. Please tell me there's something I can do? She'll have five awful nights and then two where she doesn't wake at all, and nothing much changes day to day