Please help mum at breaking point 😩

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its like my LG has just completely forgotten how to sleep! She’s slept well since 5months. But for the past couple of weeks her sleep has just stared to deteriorate.

She woke Monday at 21:30 screamed and I mean screamed for 2.5hrs absolutely nothing would settle her. Tried everything including pain relief incase she’s teething. Then woke at 5am and this morning she woke at 3:30am again screaming nothing would settle I ended up having to rock her for an hr between 04:30-5:30 just so we could get a break from her screaming.
It’s literally like she’s forgot how to sleep.

nap time she’s clearly tired and ready for sleep.
We do a quick routine of a few songs into sleep sack cuddles kisses then down into her cot for her nap which has always worked but now she will just scream every single time she going in the cot. She will crawl up the cot put herself to her knees and just scream and scream. Refusing to nap at all.

We’ve tried a cat nap in the morning long afternoon nap. Dropping to one nap.Sitting with her to settle her.Patting in crib you name it I think we’ve tried it but literally nothing is working atm.

Im not concerned that she’s physically unwell we also had a check up at the drs recently (unrelated) and she was given a clean bill of health.

this was her usual schedule

wake between 5-6am
nap between 9-9:30am. Around 30-40mins
nap between 2-2:30 around 1-1.5hrs
bed between 7-7:30pm depending on time of afternoon nap

shes always been an awful sleeper since birth but I finally felt like we’d turned a corner when she was around 5months she’s now 10months and is worse she’s ever been I’d say and I’m truly at breaking point.
I work 13.5hr shifts as a nurse and I’m struggling to function.
Please can anymore help!

How long have you been back at work? And how is she fed?

Just wondered with her being under a year if she was bfed and possibly reverse cycling as she's spending less time with you during the day when you're at work. I went back to work full time when DS was 8 months and he did this for a long time, waking throughout the evening/night wanting to be fed. It eventually settled when he was 18 months or so.

Hi she’s formula fed. I went back about 5-6 weeks ago. Honestly it’s the naps that are the biggest problem. Did you find anything that helped? I know baby sleep can change all the time and I’m honestly not expecting her to nap perfectly every single day and sleep through every single night but the naps are so traumatic for both of us. She gets absolutely hysterical even though she’s knackered. She’s been falling asleep independently since about 5 months.

Will she nap anywhere else than in her cot? E.g. in the pushchair? If we could get DS to fall asleep in his pushchair out on a walk then he'd typically stay asleep once we got back home and would often nap out in the garden with a shade over him in the warmer months.

I have complete sympathy for your situation, it's so hard

She will fall straight asleep in the push chair but wakes as soon as we stop walking her so it’s difficult 😞. She is Just starting to pull up onto her feet so I have read that learning new skills can affect sleep? But honestly I don’t know I’m completely at a loss 😩.

Are you willing to try co-sleeping? DS2 was a terrible sleeper and it's the only way we survived (well, that and coffee).

We’ve tried! She won’t sleep. She just wants to play. She has never settle in our bed since she was born. Honestly I feel like we have tried everything 😩