My LO is almost 7 months. Her sleep is HORRIFIC, has been since the 4 month sleep regression and has got slowly worse where i actually don’t think it can get much worse than this.
At night she wakes every hour and will only BF back to sleep, often wakes at 3am and relentlessly stays awake until 6am where she will then maybe have 30-40 mins more.
a really bad night is waking every ten minutes.
a good night is waking every two hours.
daytime naps are almost impossible to achieve and can only be achieved at home by BFing to sleep and placing in crib where she was having 45mins and now is basically having 20-25 minutes. Out of the house she won’t nap at all, literally all day.
she screams absolute bloody murder in the pushchair and the car and never relents and falls asleep.
I have tried every single sleep training method in creation (each one consistently for a week or so) and each have made absolutely zero difference.
I tried cosleeping and sleep is exactly the same just with me horrendously uncomfortable.
she’s no better with DH, worse really because he can’t just resort to BFing.
she is a lovely, happy baby but is consistently overtired but just resists all my efforts, it’s horrible to see this joyful little girl for twenty minutes after she’s slept and then watch her become completely miserable so quickly because she’s never rested.
she will only ever have three naps in the day so I can’t even try to squeeze in more short naps because she simply won’t have them.
tonight after 25 horrific minutes of CIO (I know I know, don’t judge) I have given up all hope that anything will ever work and we’re going to be stuck in this endless Groundhog Day where I battle her overtiredness and fail, she’s miserable, and we go nowhere and do nothing because she’ll sleep even less if we do.
im not sure if I’m even asking for help as I’ve tried it all or if I’m just ranting about how utterly defeated I am.