FFS GO TO SLEEP!!!

[clearlycrystal74]

I am so f*cking sick of listening to over tired squawking/whinging/crying/grunting EVERY day. All day. For every nap and nighttime sleep.

I've tried everything. Put to bed at first sign of tiredness. Wait until she's ( dd is 5 months old btw) good and tired. Cuddling/stroking/physical contact sends her head bobbling. Feeding to sleep doesn't work.

She's also teething and it doesn't matter if she has Calpol/Calprofen or not.

This is so not fun. I have my normal, happy, smiling, chatty baby for about an hour a day and then she's tired and miserable and the rest of the time is just sh*t.

And now it's starting to affect her night sleep as well - I really depended on her good nights as respite from the crap days. Now it's just sh*t all the time.

Will this EVER end.

Just wanted to vent.

hi there.Do you have some kind of loose routine going on with feeds/sleeps etc?

Can she settle herself to sleep?

Will she sleep in the buggy?Perhaps you could take her out a walk for one of her naps?

DS is 6 months.....some days when we put him down (for naps)he just goes off without a sound and other days he has to cry each time,no apparent reason!He did have a dummy but our nights got really crap so we ditched it and he sleeps much better now.

It will end but nothing wrong with a few good habits to help!

Hi Mumcah - Yes we have a routine for feeding/napping(well in theory!)/bedtime etc. She prefers her thumb to a dummy. She can settle herself to sleep-have had days where she goes off without a sound. Will rarely sleep in the pram but only for about 20 minutes or so.

I just get soooo fed up with the non-stop whining and crying due to tiredness when all she has to do is bloody well sleep - I put her to bed enought!!! I'd rather she had a good scream and got it all out of her system in one go. For me it's like listening to a dentists drill.

When DS1 was teething I gave him Aston and Parsons teething powder from the pharmacy and it really seemed to help. He is also a thumb sucker and I wondered if when teething it was painful for them to suck much to self-soothe.

What is her sleep routine at the moment, when does she wake for the day, first nap etc?

No real advice I'm afraid but LOTS of sympathy. My 7mo DS will really fight sleep sometimes and it winds me up something chronic.

I'm trying to get it but I just don't see the point in crying about being tired. I've got all the patience in the world when he is crying cos of something 'proper' (teething, snotty cold etc) but, if he's crying from tiredness I just think "Shut the f**k up and you'll go to sleep"!!

You are SO not alone.

It is SO frustrating when you know they are tired.So easy for us,we just shut our eyes and drop off.

Ok,so maybe she is overtired.I know you say you look for sleep cues etc.One option is to try a bit more of a routine.

The other thing is maybe she needs a good cry to switch off.Maybe you could try rubbing her tummy or forehead(although this may stimulate her more).

Is she happy when not trying to go to sleep/hungry etc?

I reckon she will grow out of it but I appreciate it is bloody awful for you.

I've heard that some babies just need to have a tension-release cry before sleeping - my friend says hers screams for 5 mins EVERY night and then conks out - he's one and a half now and that's what he's done for the last year; you'd think by now he'd have learnt that he might as well not bother with the crying and go straight to sleep, but that's just how he rolls!

I totally sympathise with the JUST STOP CRYING AND SLEEP frustration, I just had it with mine again for ten mins before he fell asleep, normally he's fine going to sleep so when he does kick off it makes me so tense and then I feel like a cowbag, but know from experience that the more I go into him, the worse he gets. Am repeating in my head "This too shall pass...." (one day, surely??!)

Lozario - I have tried Ashton & Parsons powder but it doesn't really do much although she does love it for the sweet taste, starts smacking her lips when she sees the box .

Her nights are shrinking in length... She is bathed at 6:30 and in bed around 6:45. Then the shouting continues and she generally falls asleep by 7:30. She has a sleepy feed at 10:30 and then wakes up anytime between 5 AM and 6AM. She used to sleep until 7 AM with an earlier bedtime and I'm thinking we need to start making her bedtime a bit earlier again... Anyhow, try to get her back to sleep for a bit to be up and fed at 7 AM. Then feed at 11AM, 2:30 PM, 6PM. But the past couple of days she has been impossible to settle back to sleep so the first bottle has been a bit earlier and the other times adjusted accordingly with an additional bottle offered just before bed. Daytime is rubbish. She is happy for about (maximum) 1.5 hours after waking up and then the fun and games start. If I'm lucky she might have a couple of 45 minute naps. But she is miserable, miserable, miserable.

Mull - Thank goodness I'm not the only one although I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I'm the same with the crying... The whinging on just drives me crazy.

Mumcah - Sometimes she goes after a good rage at the injustice of being put in her bed but others she. Just. Won't. It feels like she is never happy anymore although she is when whe first wakes up in the morning until she SHOULD be going to bed. Then it's just misery with big, tired, puffy eyes.

I think (hope) teething has something to do with it because it is horrible. I feel like I am tied to the house just trying to get her to sleep.