I'm completely desperate for help with my 7 month old and her lack of sleep. I've never had longer than a couple of hours at a stretch even with sleep training. The past couple of weeks we have regressed to constant waking and crying and refusing to be settled.
Tonight I've ended up screaming 'Shut up!' which only served to upset her more. Now I feel bad and she is downstairs with me.
She is so difficult to get to sleep and wakes at the slightest thing. So she spends her life whinging and moaning because she is tired. Today I had to put her in her cot for 15 minutes and walk away because I was getting so angry.
I just don't know what to do. I breastfeed but it doesn't send her to sleep. Neither does cuddling or patting or even white noise anymore. The bouncy chair used to work but lately she just screams.
We have a bedtime routine with a bath etc. She has a snuggle toy and a Ewan sheep to try and make sleep associations. I have a fan so she isn't too hot in this humid weather. I don't know what else I can do?
Last night she went down at 7. She is often screaming with tiredness by then even if she only woke up at 6 from a nap. She slept until 11.30 and then woke every hour or so until 4am. She then just kept getting up on her hands and knees and rocking. If I look at her she smiles but cries and whinges otherwise so I can't just ignore her.
Tonight she went down at 6.30 as I couldn't keep her up longer but now she is awake and refusing to settle. Calpol hasn't helped.
What on earth can I do!?!? The lack of sleep is really hard. I feel miserable. I'm eating crap all day and shouting at my other kids for the slightest thing. I can't go on like this. 
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Whatiswrongwithmykid · 23/06/2016 22:05
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Hmm they are strange little creatures aren't they?!
Maybe she's overtired by the time you're putting her down? My Dd had (and still has at 14mo) a very tiny window in which she can go from quite happy to an overtired gremlin 
Also, are nap times consistently at the same time everyday where possible?? I know that's not always easy, especially if you have other children, but once we got into a solid routine (took about a week of doing everything at the same time every single day), dd's naps started falling into place, and the night time gradually followed suit. We also did sleep training at 7.5/8 months (which I know is a controversial topic on MN!) - it was tough - took all my willpower not to keep going in the room (I only went in if she cried) - and after a few difficult days of that, she used to still roll around/crawl up and down the cot for a few minutes and then realise that I wasn't playing the game anymore and it was time to sleep.
Oh bless you
Does she take a dummy?? Or sleep in grobags?? Sounds mean, but a grobag stopped my Dd (to a certain extent) from standing/crawling around (and now she's walking and climbing it slows her down a bit 
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She has a dummy but spits it out to carry on moaning
I've stopped using the gro bag due to the heat. Maybe I should try it again and just leave off clothes underneath.
Hopefully she will learn to put the dummy into her own mouth soon - my Dd was about 8 months when she figured it out and it did make lots of difference!!
And yeah, I know what you mean about the heat She should be alright in a 1 tog grobag and a thin vest, or just a nappy.
I really hope she starts sleeping better for you soon!! It's such a killer isn't it? You don't realise until you have your own kids how mentally draining sleep issues can be!
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