Hi,
my 6 month baby has never been a great sleeper. We bath her, feed her upstairs in dim light then put her to bed. She is still in our room. We used to only be able to get her to sleep by rocking her but she had started to fall asleep herself with a lullaby on or by holding her hand through the cot.
recently (past three weeks) she has struggled to fall asleep by herself. She has a dummy but only when sleeping. I have resorted to rocking her the last two weeks as she cries so much when I put her down and it can take up to two hours to fall asleep, leaving her over tired.
She is waking up throughout the night and wakes crying. If I leave her she really cries, becomes wide awake and can take up over an hour to get to sleep. I'm forever getting up to pop her dummy in and I'm exhausted.
She only wakes for a feed once around 4ish and wakes at varied times to get up, however keeps waking up crying.
She sleeping in a grow bag as she was pulling her cover over her head in the night. She has previously slept well in this bag on some occasions.
I'm so stressed as she starts to wake anytime from her going to bed. This means when I'm tidying up, having a shower or trying to spend time with my husband, we are both just up n down the stairs. I also still have a baby bump and really want to exercise consistently but I'm tired and up n down the stairs.
Really need some help as can't continue like this.
xx