My LO is nearly 7 months old and I'm sat here crying as I type. She has always been a very bad sleeper and spent the first 3 months waking every 2 hrs and would only nap if I walked her in the pram and that was after screaming. I finally managed to transition into her cot and have recently felt like I was making some progress and could actually have some time for me whilst she slept. She was doing really well and sleeping 1 hr 30 stretches and her night sleeps were better with us only needed to replace the dummy around 4am and she'd go back to sleep. That was until the weekend. Everything has changed and I feel like a broken women again. She only sleeps for 30mins in her cot, if I try and resettle she wails. Today I got her up and then after 30mins playing she was going crazy with tiredness so I put her back down after she massively kicked off, screamed, scratched me and drew blood and tried to bite me. Her nights have deteriorated too with her waking at 4 and then just cat napping and crying until 6am when we ended up getting up. We just can't resettle her. I know she must be tired but she just won't sleep and it's all happened out of nowhere.
She's on solids and eating well and I'm pretty sure she's not teething as we've had a bout of that already and the signs aren't there at the moment.
She is super hyper and alert and when in a good mood is an absolute joy but she is incredibly strong minded and fights sleep like some sort of monster!!
Can anyone sympathise or offer some advice as it's breaking me (a bad case of PMT doesn't help either!!)