Sorry if this has been posted before. I'm new to MN.
My 11month old DD has always been a brilliant sleeper day and night but this past 2 weeks her sleeps have been erratic and putting everyone in a horrible mood.
She started originally not sleeping through the day and screaming and crying when getting put down for a sleep even though nothing had changed routine wise or day to day wise. Then when she would eventually fall asleep it was for 20mins at the most. Those seem to have slowly worked themselves out through perseverance but now we are having issues at bedtime.
We have the same routine at bedtime. Sticking to the 4 b's - bath, bottle, book, bed and we have done this routine from her first few weeks. So we stick to the routine and everything is fine until we actually leave her in bed and she promptly screams and cries her heart out after we have left the room. I have tried CIO, soothing until sleepy but not asleep, etc etc etc but nothing works and it's become a 2 hour battle to get her to sleep. Once she is asleep she is out for the count and don't hear a peep till 7.30am touch wood but now I'm at my wits end on what to do and DH isn't much help as he is up to her in minutes as soon as she lets out the slightest whimper even after we have talked about not doing it.
Any tips or advice is helpful
Thanks