DD is now 19 weeks. I've posted before about her sleep, which all went pear shaped around 13 weeks. Difficult to get to sleep for naps and at night, short naps. Things had been improving but seem to have taken a turn for the worse again.
Yesterday it took me an hour for each nap and bedtime. At one nap I was really close to losing my cool so had to put her down in her cot and time myself out in the next room. For ten minutes she grumbled and shouted (if she had done a full on upset cry I would have gone back in) and then she fell asleep. Since then I have noticed that she seems to cry more when I am trying to rock and shush her than when she is in her cot! So now I am trying five mins rocking, five mins in cot (unless she properly fries then I pick her up straight away) etc etc. This evening she is going full out screaming when I pick her up, and crying still in cot. (She has had jabs today so it might be worse than usual, but is not the same sort of crying as the last set of injections so I don't think it's wholly that.) my question is, if picking her up makes her cry even louder, then should I put her in the cot where she will cry but maybe less,am and just try to soothe her by talking to her or patting her?(which doesn't really work but I don't want her crying alone!)
I've just managed to feed her to sleep, but this is rare, not a habit I want to develop, and usually only gets her to sleep for 20 mins then we have to start all over again!!!
WWYD? Sorry for the long post, I find it hard to be concise!! ;)
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Tumtitum · 21/06/2016 18:01
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