to turn off the baby monitor

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DD1 has a small head cold, blocked nose etc. This means she can't suck her soother which she needs to go to sleep. She just won't settle now. Have given all the medication I can, used nasal spray even sucked her nose myself but no relief. Everytime I pick her up she falls straight to sleep in my arms but wakes up the minute I put her down. I'm tempted now just to turn off the baby monitor and let her CIO.

Cuddle her to sleep and/or sleep with her if she settles on you, it is tough but when they're ill you have to make exceptions, hope she's better soon and you can all get some sleep.

tryharder yes still speak to her, she's normally nice and sane. But I have discovered that DD is a high needs baby, so the worst thing you can possibly do is leave her to cio as ahe just gets worse and worse and will only stop when eventually she cries herself to sleep. MIL believes she is just clingy as she is BF and so no-one else has ever looked after her. I "need" to leave her with MIL more often apparantly. She will leave me when she is ready.

OP I completely empathise, my DD is 4 months and honestly had a snotty nose for at least 2 of those - it has only stopped in the last 2 weeks. We did the basket tilting, Vicks on her babygrow, saline spray, spa in the room. Each thing worked a bit but nothing conclusively and it killed me when she couldn't get back to sleep for the snot.

In some wierd way I suppose you should take heed from others saying they have laid awake on mn with a snotty baby sleeping on their chest - me included. 2 hours of you sleeping slightly proped up is better than no hours imo.

Stay strong, if you have tried everything else the water vapour spa thing might be worth a go.

Gritters my baby is a cling-on baby and ebf. She has only been left with my Mum for 30 minutes, the rest of her life has been spent with me or her Daddy. There will be years for her to spend time with MIL for now surely she should just be with Mummy and Daddy :)