Hi
I have a beautiful little 6 month old DD. At around 2-4 months she was sleeping fantastically. I bathed her around 8-8:30, fed her to sleep and held her for around an hour before purring her down at about 10. She would sleep through most of the time until 6 or 7am sometimes later.
At around 4 months she started to wake around 4-4:30 so I would give her a feed and we would both fall asleep on the spare bed in her room until she was awake for the day.
Sometime in the past couple of months I started trying to put her down earlier, usually around 9 on average.
Now for the past month / six weeks I go through the same bath, bottle, bed routine but I hold her after she's fallen asleep for maybe around 20 mins before I put her down (mainly so she doesn't bring milk up). Sometimes she wakes straight away so I give her her dummy and she usually falls back to sleep.
Some nights she will sleep until 12 but other she cries every 30 mins or so. I go up and put her dummy in, sometimes give her a cuddle and put her back down. Then at around midnight she wakes again, won't settle so I give her a feed. I try not to fall asleep with her but a lot of the time I do. On the night that we end up co sleeping she wakes up crying frequently so she has her dummy or milk which works quickly.
If I manage to put her back down I might get a couple of hours before she wakes up crying again so I just bring her in with me for the sake of getting a bit of sleep.
A few nights ago I put her down again after this 3am waking and she woke very soon after and thought it was playtime!
What am I doing wrong/what is going wrong? Maybe it's blindingly obvious but I can't see while I'm in the thick of it.
Apologies for the long post as well, I wanted to try not to drip feed.
Thank you x
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Sleep Problems... Advice Needed!!!
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AzuremystBrandy · 07/05/2016 21:00
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