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9 month old sleep issues

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magicalmrmistofelees · 13/08/2014 13:19

I have a 9 month old DD and she has never been a fantastic sleeper. We've had periods of waking up every 45 mins, periods of taking hours to resettle after a feed, periods of being difficult to put down at bedtime... You name it, we've experienced it Smile. At 9 months she's now settled into a pattern of waking up twice a night for a feed, usually around midnight and 5.30am. Sometimes she goes back to sleep after the 5.30am feed, sometimes she doesn't. She was breast fed until 6 months but is now ff. She hasn't taken to solids very well (doing BLW) so still isn't really eating enough to drop a milk feed. Her naps during the day are awful and always have been, she usually had 2 x 30 min naps per day in her cot, or in her pram if we're out and about. I know she needs longer as if I let her sleep on me she'll sleep up to 2 hours. She has never responded well to
routine, sometimes she can be awake for 4-5 hours without a nap and sometimes she is exhausted after 2 hours. I'm just feeling a bit at
a loss with it all. I know we need to stop the night time feeds but I also suffer from insomnia and at the moment I'm so exhausted I feed her as it's the quickest way to settle her back down. I desperately want some form of routine during the day but really struggling to implement one as she's always so unpredictable! She's a lovely, happy, content little thing but I know she needs more sleep, and I definitely do! I'm not really sure what I'm asking, just looking for some support/advice really. TIA.

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magicalmrmistofelees · 13/08/2014 13:58

I meant to say she has a good bedtime routine- bath, story, milk, asleep at 7.30pm... I feel like that's the only think we've got right in terms of her sleeping!

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