My DS is 5 months and is currently a nightmare at bedtime.
I'm at the point where my nerves are so shot I threw a bowl into the sink this morning and it smashed everywhere. I know it's awful, I already feel like a failure.
He will go down for his naps just fine, but will no longer go down for bed. For the past week we've had to resort to driving him to sleep or feeding him to sleep.
He just screams!
His routine hasn't changed at all, he is EBF but has a bottle of expressed milk (expressed that morning) with Gaviscon in for his reflux.
It's always been that DP does the nighttime feed with him, play Ewan in the background, starlight on, down for bed and asleep by 8.30pm.
Now all of a sudden he will just scream. He screams so hard that he gets red hot and we need to strip him to cool him down again. He is completely inconsolable if we leave him. I've tried everything.
We've put a fan in his room to try and cool him down if it's the heat and he is fine once he is asleep. But what used to be a 30 minute bedtime routine is now a few hours long. Eventually he falls asleep around 10.30pm so we have to endure 2 hours of screaming every night. I can't take much more! Someone help?
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I don't see how I can get past this phase
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chevit · 26/05/2017 20:18
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