Shes 7 months old and is almost impossible to put down for a nap in the day and wakes up at least 4 times a night sometimes as much as every hour and a half.
Both parents brought to tears. Daddy making mistakes at work and coming back unhappy, mummy doing nothing with her brain at all.
Normal routine is; pyjamas and breast feed at 7.30, sleeps on the breast and goes in her cot. This has been more of a struggle in the last 2 weeks - she is fretfull and awake even after the feed - though rubbing eyes, cranky crying and clearly exhausted. Singing and all that makes her excitable as does a bath. She wakes again at about 11.30 and then again at 2 and 4 to feed and is properly ready for the day between 5:30 and 6. When I put her down after a feed she can wake up again for comfort at least 2 or 3 times between feeds. She also wakes at the slightest sound, eg; daddy snoring. She is in our room although we are planning to move her very unwieldy cot into her own room asap.
She is weaned very nicely and has 3 small meals a day and bits of fruit or veg and even bread in her hand, but I feel like she has all her calories at night because she is so distracted on the breast in the day, only feeding properly for a couple of minutes max.
She is teething, but doesn't seem to be in that much pain with it, - when she is we give her calpol and teething gel and that seems to work.
I know we have to totally change her routine - but don't quite know how as her sleep is such a mess it difficult to know where to start. I have tried dream feeding her but it just means she eats more! She still wakes up an hour later.
Please help!
Thank you