Apologies in advance, this is a bit long.
DD nearly 7 months, was a fabulous sleeper from about 4 weeks onwards - put her down awake and she'd go off to sleep, woke for a feed about 5am with occasional extra waking for feed about 2.30. Has two decent naps in the day but will only sleep outside
4 month sleep regression wasn't too bad and she went back to "normal" by 5mo. We went on holiday, she had a cold, still didn't make too much difference to her. There was a phase of feeding all night but it seemed to coincide with a growth spurt, made effort to feed her in quiet boring places during the day and it passed.
The last three weeks or so, she WILL NOT go to sleep by herself, I have to lie down with her and then she wakes up and cries as soon as I so much as hold her over the cot (same travel cot she's happily slept in since she was about 12 weeks and will happily sit in, just not lie down or go to sleep! in our room still). Last night she went to bed with us at 10pm and I managed to move her into the cot after about half an hour.
She has also started screaming, and I mean screaming, with no build-up whatsoever, two or three times a night. When we pick her up she's not awake IYSWIM, we have to put the light on to wake her fully before we can soothe her.
I am feeding her god knows how many times a night, would night weaning help? Doing BLW and she's just starting to swallow food. Currently switching her over to formula in the day as I go back to work soon (will not be expressing for various reasons).
She's a really busy baby, into everything, crawling backwards/bumshuffling and starting to pull herself up on furniture, also her babbling has suddenly become much more speech like this weekend. It's like her brain is constantly "on".
She has no teeth yet but this doesn't seem like teething as remedies that help her when her gums hurt don't help!
Going to book her an appt with GP to make sure we're not missing something though she seems fine. HV is a bit crap and it's minimal contact in this area so don't want to bother them either.
I've read the No Cry Sleep Solution but we're doing pretty much what she suggests, have got the Baby Whisperer on order now.
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Sleeping gone to hell, should we try and night wean?
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glovesoflove · 06/12/2010 09:57
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