My 6mo dd seems to hate sleep. She slept well until the 4 month regression, and for the past 2 months has not slept more than 3 hours in a row, sometimes waking every hour through the night.
She is breastfed but my husband has started giving her a bottle of formula as her last feed of the night, as I literally had no time to shower or eat (he works 7-7). She falls asleep on the bottle at 7.30pm and wakes after an hour. Then is rocked/fed back to sleep every 1-3 hours through the night. We have tried desperately to teach her to fall asleep without the breast/bottle, but by bedtime she screams if she is put down at all (in cot, on bed, anywhere) until she is fed to sleep. We've tried a routine from 12 weeks but it never works. We even spoke to a sleep consultant who suggested allowing her to fall asleep on our bed with my cuddling her, but she was having none of it. Just rooted for the boob and cried.
She naps 3x a day, only in the pram or car or sling, for an average of 45 mins each time.
My evenings are non existent, I'm totally sleep deprived and my poor baby is exhausted.
Please has anyone got any words of wisdom?