I’m sorry but it just makes no sense at all.
the sleep regression hits and suddenly it’s skipping and fighting naps and waking up all through the night. So you do whatever you can to get your baby to sleep because they need to. And so sleep associations are born, even where they didn’t exist before.
pretty soon you have a chronically over tired baby who needs the same association to fall back to sleep every time they wake up.
so what does all the advice say?
your baby is over tired because they can’t self settle, they need your help every time they wake up so naps are 45 minutes and they wake all night long.
they need to learn to self settle.
but don’t even think about attempting sleep training gentle or otherwise on an over tired baby as it will never work.
they need to catch up on all their sleep first.
but they can’t because the same problems still exist that apparently we can’t fix because they’re too over tired to handle it.
okay what? By that logic things will never change and I have no idea what to do.
get DD to take 2hr naps on me to get more sleep but create worse sleep associations and less self settling??
Let her keep up with 45 minute naps that take me an hour to achieve and wait for things to magically change on their own because at least she can be put in the crib to sleep atm?
try sleep training anyway??
I don’t understand how to get past the overtiredness without moving further and further away from any self settling.
the worst thing is, she used to put herself to sleep no problem before the bloody sleep regression.