Baby refusing to sleep in her bed

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My little girl has been refusing to sleep in her cot for the last week, I've tried putting her down drowsy but awake (and I know she can fall asleep as she has done before up until about a week ago!), but she scream, tried putting her down asleep but she either lasts 5 minutes or I haven't even finished putting her down and she is screaming. Tried putting a shirt I've worn all day and still screaming, tried a hot water bottle and still screaming. It's really frustrating as she used to have at least a few hours in her cot until waking, usually wakes about 2/3am and I'd have to go in and sleep next to her cot to get her to go back to sleep, now that isn't good enough and she has to be in bed with me. I love contact naps with her, we've always done them in the day as she is just an awful day sleeper but at least I would have a bit of a break, and to spend time with my husband in the evening when she went to bed but now it's impossible. My husband tries to do bedtime and take over but she won't let him, she cries so much she is violently sick all over him and herself, along with the bed and won't stop until I'm there to take her. She is fine in the day if I leave the room, unless she is hungry or tired but the vomiting when I'm not there is a really new thing and worries me that she doesn't cope with me. I'm also 10 weeks pregnant with our second (technically 5th as we had 4 losses before our daughter which is why we thought we would try quite soon due to the difficult we had), so I'm pretty exhausted anyway but I think a solid few comfortable hours of sleep within her on me would help. I feel awful thinking I need a break from her, but it's literally been 24/7 for the last week and I just don't know how to help her get out of this. She is 7 months, is this a sleep regression that will end? Is this separation anxiety? Is this due to teething (I can see her bottom 2 front teeth popping up), or perhaps a combination of all of the above? I'm a first time mum and I just want her to be happy and healthy, but when other people go on about how there baby has been sleeping through since 5 months, I get a bit upset and think she isn't happy or healthy if she isn't doing what she should be? Or when people say it's my fault because I 'didn't give people a look in' (a load of shit because no one has offered to come and help with night time!
Will she ever sleep through, in her own bed?
Guess I just want to hear if anyone had similar and resolved it on its it own or with something?

Forgot to say, she is 7 months old

Congratulations on your PG!

I think what you're experiencing is more normal than you think. What happens if you just go with it and let her sleep with you? Do you all sleep better?

Could you repost and break up the text a bit? I can't read a solid block like that.

Seven months is still little! Less time out of you than in.

There are so many regressions and developments and changes they go through, sleep won’t settle for a while yet – could be attachment, could be teeth, could be a full moon. I’d stick her in bed with you – use a sidecar cot so you’ve all got enough space – and aim for all getting some sleep.

She will one day sleep through in her own bed and this will all be a tired distant memory.

Another vote for a sidecar cot. She's still tiny, she'll have phases when she won't (can't ) sleep without you.

I found it better and much less stressful for everybody, just to have ds beside me. He went through phases like that until he was about 4. It comes and goes.

And what other people achieve with other babies is completely irrelevant. Every baby is different and has different needs.

Based on my own experiences (I have a 9mo) and those of friends, I would say it's more unusual for a baby not to need support to sleep e.g. feeding, rocking, movement, etc.

Drowsy but awake only works for a very small number of babies, so if you are ruling out sickness, teething, big developmental milestone, etc. then it's possibly a sleep regression. Hopefully she'll come through it quickly but in the meantime you'll need to figure out how to support her to sleep (an old shirt and a hot water bottle wouldn't be nearly enough for mine!).

I’d suggest a sidecar cot, I spent about 2 months getting baby to sleep only for him to wake the instant I put him down and then start all over again. Bedtime was taking at least 2hrs and then we went with sidecar cot, bedtime instantly easier.

Since about 7ish months DS hasn’t been able to be put down, he has to stay asleep where he falls asleep. So with the sidecar cot I fed him to sleep lying down and then rolled away to spend the evening downstairs (used baby monitor). Now he is 15 months and his own room on a very low toddler bed so I still lie next to him and feed him to sleep.

He still sleeps better in with us though and comes into our bed anytime from 11pm really.

Babies just like to be close to you and my advice is to do whatever works until it doesn’t, and don’t worry about bad habits, just do whatever gets you all the most sleep.

She sleeps better, and I get more sleep than of I perceived with putting her down and having her wake each time, she literally falls asleep on me as soon as I take her out of her cot, it's just a little uncomfortable for me physically, and now I'm pregnant I'm needing the toilet a lot more as well so waking her up a little each time 😫.
I know I shouldn't compare to others and she used to be such a good sleeper so it's kind of taken me by surprise. I'm hoping it is just a regression and she'll be better at sleep again in the future, but me just thinking ahead had me panicked that she'll be like this forever and it will be super uncomfortable as I get bigger!

My little girl, 7 months old, has been refusing to sleep in her cot for the last week, I've tried putting her down drowsy but awake (and I know she can fall asleep as she has done before up until about a week ago!), but she scream, tried putting her down asleep but she either lasts 5 minutes or I haven't even finished putting her down and she is screaming.

Tried putting a shirt I've worn all day and still screaming, tried a hot water bottle and still screaming.

It's really frustrating as she used to have at least a few hours in her cot until waking, usually wakes about 2/3am and I'd have to go in and sleep next to her cot to get her to go back to sleep, now that isn't good enough and she has to be in bed with me.

I love contact naps with her, we've always done them in the day as she is just an awful day sleeper but at least I would have a bit of a break, and to spend time with my husband in the evening when she went to bed but now it's impossible.

My husband tries to do bedtime and take over but she won't let him, she cries so much she is violently sick all over him and herself, along with the bed and won't stop until I'm there to take her. She is fine in the day if I leave the room, unless she is hungry or tired but the vomiting when I'm not there is a really new thing and worries me that she doesn't cope with me.

I'm also 10 weeks pregnant with our second (technically 5th pregnancy as we had 4 losses before our daughter which is why we thought we would try quite soon due to the difficult we had), so I'm pretty exhausted anyway but I think a solid few comfortable hours of sleep within her on me would help.

I feel awful thinking I need a break from her, but it's literally been 24/7 for the last week and I just don't know how to help her get out of this. She is 7 months, is this a sleep regression that will end? Is this separation anxiety? Is this due to teething (I can see her bottom 2 front teeth popping up), or perhaps a combination of all of the above?

I'm a first time mum and I just want her to be happy and healthy, but when other people go on about how there baby has been sleeping through since 5 months, I get a bit upset and think she isn't happy or healthy if she isn't doing what she should be?

Or when people say it's my fault because I 'didn't give people a look in' (a load of shit because no one has offered to come and help with night time!

Will she ever sleep through, in her own bed?

Guess I just want to hear if anyone had similar and resolved it on its it own or with something?