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5 month old will not sleep at night

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Smartergirl · 13/09/2022 20:58

Hey everyone. Me and my partner are in desperate need of advice. Our LG is just over 5 months old, and we're trying to start a bedtime sleep routine, but it's a mission trying to get her down. We change her bum, get her in her sleep suit, feed her, burp her and then the crying starts and will not stop for the next few hours, all the while we are rocking her walking with her and shushing her to try and console her and get her to sleep. It feels like we've tried everything under the sun to get her to calm down but she fights with herself, as soon as she starts to drift off she'll jolt herself awake again and then the crying starts all over again. We've tried all sorts of white noise, we've tryed Amber lights, no lights, she won't take any dummies. Honestly it feels like she's just exhausted from crying by the time she does go to sleep. We really don't want to let her cry it out because it's just too painful for us to hear her crying so that's why we're constantly consoling her while she is crying. She's our first child so we're still trying to figure things out. She will put up a bit of a fight to nap during the day but after about a half hour of walking her about she will fall asleep, which I don't mind doing, but at night its maybe an hour or two before she ends up going to sleep. Please can someone give us any advice on what we can do to help get her to sleep easier at night time?

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escapingthecity · 14/09/2022 22:01

My 8mo can't routinely do 4 hours awake, so this baby isn't getting enough sleep. I would longer naps during the day and at least three if them, and perhaps going back to feeding to sleep.

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