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Approx 6 minutes at timed crying, not even cc/CIO, timed crying (as in back every 2 minutes).

I have posted before about DD2s inability to sleep but I'm getting ill (down, on steriods, antibiotics and inhalers for breathing, bad back...) now and need to do something.

I was happy to feed to sleep 100 times a night but now she can't fall asleep feeding, she screams, she won't lie down with me, she won't be cuddled, laid alone, stroked, soothed, dummy, bottle, she screams at them all.

The only way is to walk, which due to my back I cannot maintain as long as it would take for her to fall asleep.

So AIBU to give up on CC/timed c whatever when I really really can't see another solution??

This may sound obvious so sorry you may have Already tried this but I found rocking my little one in her pram helps a lot the one I have she can sleep in all the time which at the moment is what she is doing she liked being rocked but not in a crib I have a wee fussy baby. Just an idea might be worth a try to get her over then move her into crib or cot.

Hope this helps

How. Old is she? Do you have a dh/p?

Hold old ?

there used to be a book called 'your crying baby and how to cope'. i don't know if its still around.

i don't know what cc/cio are - i'm old. but timed crying sounds like a poor strategy with a little one who so much needs your presence for comfort. did she have a traumatic birth?

Have a look at the no cry sleep solution. How old is LO?

do you have someone who could take over for a night to break this cycle?
just one night.
you get to sleep undisturbed and your dc is cared for by a lovely person you trust.
there will be tears but you will feel so much better with some sleep and fresh outlook.

Put her in a pram and rock it. Sit on the bed and move it backwards and forwards with your legs if it's easier. She'll probably scream to start with, but she will settle. All babies do eventually.

Sorry she's 7 months, she's been on a 45m to 2 hr sleep cycle for 7 looooooong months.

I have a DH but his dad just got diagnosed with TB so he goes to his work at 8am then runs his dads business from 9pm-2am 7 days a week, I feel I can't ask him for help it wouldnt be fair.

She does now sleep in the day in her pushchair after much persistence! She never used to nap at all. Think she'd be too big for pram bit now??

Peace sorry she was born fast, head on the pavement fast. She was chronically unable to be put down for 3 months but now she's a happy little monkey in the day willing to sit and play.

Your last post makes me suggest a cranial osteopath. Might be worth a try.

So AIBU to give up on CC/timed c whatever when I really really can't see another solution??

YANBU. I am vehemently anti CIO or CC so I would have said YWBU to try it at all. Especially at 7 months, they're still so tiny, feeling their way in the world and you are everything to them.

Have you considered cranial osteopathy ? Apparently it often works wonders with babies that cry all the time as they find undiscovered birth "kinks". If you're trying to feed her to sleep, rocking her, lying down etc it's not the lack of your presence that's the issue so it might be worth investigating

And CIO/CC doesn't necessarily work, as my NDN is testament. She has left her two babies to CIO pretty much from birth. The eldest is coming up 3 and still cries herself to sleep every night for about 45 minutes (we can hear it in our house)