My DD is 9.5 months and I’m at my wits end. Since she was 7 months she just started hating going in her cot. She had no issue before and she used to go in drowsy but awake and just go to sleep. Since then she will not go in her cot at all and have been co sleeping since as she sleeps well on the bed normally and we do it safely.
Now in the last week - sleeping on the bed now isn’t what she wants to do and now she screams unless she’s sleeping on me. If I’m next to her she screams until she’s on me. She rolls around and is hysterical and at times inconsolable for hours. She is teething I think because she’s got red cheeks, dribbling and keeps chewing everything and sounds like she’s eating something. I give her teething powder but the clinginess will not stop.
I attempted the Ferber method when she was 8 months but she was so distressed she vomited after a few minutes - that’s how hard it is.
I don’t know what to do. It’s like the newborn stage again but worse. I feel so bad for her, I don’t understand what’s going on. Why is this happening? people keep telling me I’m not being firm enough but I don’t know how to be firmer without her screaming the flat down. She won’t stop.
she’s a very happy baby in the daytime but the nights are so hard now. What do I do? Help please :(