Hi everyone,
I have a beautiful baby girl, she is now approaching 5 months old on 1st December. She always slept really well up until about 7 weeks ago, we attended a wedding and both got covid. Since then we seem to have been launched in to a sleep regression.
Baby will only fall asleep if being held, breastfed and rocked. She is mostly BF but I have always given her a bottle just before bed as this used to work in terms of giving her a nice big last feed. I used to combination feed but more recently she is predominantly BF.
She will generally go down in her cot from 7-7.30pm for a few hours, sometimes waking, sometimes not. But after that point when she wakes it’s impossible to get her back down without crying. It’s so bad recently that I started co-sleeping, but now she won’t even sleep in the bed beside me! She has to be held/latched on or the screaming starts!
I have tried so many methods and am starting to realise that I can’t manage anything that involves any version of crying it out, it makes me cry!! Putting her down drowsy but awake doesn’t work either.
I’m so sleep deprived, I do all the nights on my own and am really starting to struggle. Is there anything anyone can suggest that perhaps worked for them? Thanks so much x