8 month old daughter. Aargh. She used to sleep for an hour in the morning and an hour after lunch. Right now we are having constant battles to get a nap out of her.
She goes into the cot fine (smiling and rubbing her eyes) but starts babbling, which is followed by whinging, then all out war. This can go on all morning.
She started crawling about 3 weeks ago. This seemed to make her more tired, but only at bedtime. We had to bring her bedtime forward from 7.15 to 6.30-6.45.
I could really do with hearing some positive stories right now. Was your baby like this? Did it get better?
This whole thing is making me feel physically and emotionally exhausted. I can't relax because I spend all day either listening to whinging and crying or waiting for it to start again. I'm sometimes on my own with her all week when my husband works shifts at weekends (though he gets monday and tuesday off to recuperate, while I have to go to work - how ironic!). I love her dearly, but I have no energy to look after her when she's like this. FED UP!!
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mogwai · 12/03/2006 22:07
I told them that she hadn't napped well for the past few days and that I thought she might be dropping the morning sleep.
They have persevered with trying to find ways to get her to sleep at 9.30am and have managed to get two good sleeps out of her today through swaddling, lying her on her side and blacking the window out.
And she was in a better mood for it all day apparently. They really are very good, I don't mean to sound that I want her to go elsewhere, just that it suddenly dawned on me that I was dancing to their tune, IYSWIM.
We'll see how it goes tomorrow. Can't help thinking today was a fluke! We're going away next week so I suppose it will all go to pot again 
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