Hoping someone can help me on here because nothing seems to be working. My DD is 6 months old in 3 days!! And since she was born she has always scratched her head when she’s tired/dropping off to sleep. The last month or so she has moved to still scratching her head but scratching her legs, baby grow, me, her bed sheet but it’s still mainly her head, I’ve tried scratch mits and socks on her hands but she just gets them off within about 5 minutes. I also trim her nails about twice a week but she still manages to make herself bleed, we’ve tried child’s farm itchy scalp shampoo, baby oil massaged onto head and also nothing at all used in the bath but she still seems to do it, it’s a comfort thing I’m guessing but what do we do! She’s a very stirry baby in the night and probably wakes up 2/3 times if not more but can’t leave her to self soothe as she’ll scratch her head to pieces. Any advice would be really helpful TIA x
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