This. Child. Wont. Sleep.

[BelulahBlanca]

DD will not settle in her own bed or mine. She won’t be fed to sleep or rocked. She keeps kicking me and is a strong as a mule. Any ideas (other then putting her in the bin)

How old?

6 months- normally can always be fed to sleep of all else fails

White noise? Dummy?
Are you trying feeding to sleep lying down?
Tried getting dh/dp to settle her?

These are just theoretical suggestions btw, my 5 month old only ever feeds to sleep and if and when he stops doing that I have a feeling I’m going to be fucked!

She won’t take her dummy and we are the only people home tonight ( or this morning )

Ugh. Mine does this fairly regularly. Usually BF to sleep reliably but sometimes he just won't go down. It is very frustrating.

I think it must be low level discomfort/teething as what usually works for us is full dose of Calpol. I let him keep wriggling and then he usually starts to settle as will drop off whilst lying down breastfeeding after 20-30 mins.

Sorry if it's obvious but also worth checking that he's physically comfy (Nappy doesn't need changing, feet aren't caught up into the body of a baby gro etc) easy to forget the obvious stuff when it's the middle of the night and they won't sleep.
Fingers crossed you get some rest soon

Ugh I feel for you. Have a look at the wonder weeks app- is bubs going through a leap?
Hangin there and repeat to yourself "this too shall pass"

My ds is just coming out the other side of this (age 4.5yrs 😭😭).

The only thing that worked for us on nights like yours was to give up. We would go downstairs and I would put him down with his toys for 10minutes while I got a brew. I'd drink my brew while he kicked around on the floor. Then change his nappy and back upstairs to resettle and feed to sleep. Sometimes (often) it worked like a reset.

White noise also helped. He has a nightlight that is like aurora and projects onto the ceiling, this is the only light that I ever used at night.

Good luck!

My daughter didnt sleep till she started school aged 5 she was a terrible aleeper we never had a settled night. The things i wish i had done is not obbess about it. Sleep when i can and look after myself, ask for help and rest bite ,co sleep, not have had a million fights with my husband through the nights and no it will end it might take 5 years but really they are little children and some cant sleep without a parent as my friend said once yoi never heard a mum saying shes going to her sons uni to co sleep !!! It roesnt last forever good luck

Baby is now 9 months and hasn't slept for more than 2 consecutive hours. I've tried and tried to be positive but it's starting to get to me. Still being BF, weaning is happening but not taking loads consistently. Have to feed every 2 hours (sometimes less!) in the night to get her back to sleep and this did work to get her to sleep initially in the evenings but now that's stopped, it just feels like a constant battle as the day time naps are just as bad. Daytime wise - she wakes tired and I can still (at the mo, touch wood!) feed her to sleep around 10am but that nap will only last around 30 mins. The next nap in the afternoon usually has to be via a car journey or bounced in the chair.
She fights me if I try to rock her at night, and if I put her in the cot to settle herself she gets massively upset usually by pushing her feet on the cot and then getting stuck.
Is there anything, anything I can do/try?
Can the HV help? I don't know what else to do and I feel terrible to admit it but it is getting to me.

I'm sorry, I was meant to start a new post. I didn't want to gate crash yours but I was going to watch it for advice. Sorry, if I could delete it I would!!