Need sleep - please someone help!!!!

[Ghostie]

So DD 2 is 10 months. She's not slept as well as her DS. I find it hard to get her to sleep past 5/5.30am! She will tend to stand up in her cot and scream and still scream if I try and settle her. She goes to bed at 7pm - I've tried keeping her up latter, but she's too tired mostly. Recently she has been sick/teething, so up at night too.

She has generally two naps, an hour in the morning and 1 1/2 - 2 hours at lunch, but when she is at nursery her pattern can change.

If I could just get her sleep properly again and going to at least 6, that would be more bearable. She seems to be constantly teething which makes it worse, she already had 8 teeth fully out!

With Dd1, we let her cry it out, but she was 5months and I don't know if we've gone past that point with this one. Also, we've always been worried about waking up dd1.

I am back at work and working really hard and about to move house. My eyes are constantly red, i realise I am too grumpy...I really need to get her sleeping!!!!!

Please help!!!

I forgot to mention she is f fed, except I bf her first thing in the morning. Open because I like the bond and secondly because I can feed her lying down and pretend I'm still asleep!

Ghostie - not got much time but didn't want to read and run. Just to say we are struggling with similar early waking and it is hell, was driving DD around at 5am this morning, utterly miserable and exhausted, and every time I tried to pull over so I could close my eyes myself she woke up again...

AFAIK I'm doing everything 'right' - getting the morning nap timed right, not letting her get overtired - but I think it's 9 month sleep regression so not sure what else to do.

Just wanted to say there is lots of advice on here about earlier bedtimes helping early waking problem - have never been sure how it works but maybe google it...? Idea is to avoid letting them get too tired which messes with their sleep patterns...

Anwyay good luck, I totally sympathise about the red eyed thing, I am a wreck at the mo. x

Hello, my ds is a little older, 15 months.

We've recently night weaned him, which has made a huge difference. He was waking up early, so I started giving him a banana just before bed time, and it helped him sleep through until 6. Might be worth a try?

Try pushing back the first nap. We moved to a by the clock schedule so started doing lunch at 11 then nap straight after for up to 2 hours and a cat nap at 4 to 4.30 until it could be dropped at 14 months.

If she can't sleep until 11.30 she should sleep later in the morning.

Sorry, just to add that there will be a difficult week or so whilst she's adjusting x

Is she sleeping through until half 5? Because that's not too bad. Have you tried feeding her when she wakes and seeing if she will doze?

My youngest was a consistently early waker and my younger would like to sleep later but doesn't as gets woken up by her brother. I did have some success with feeding and he'd go back to sleep for a bit.