I'm approaching the end of my sanity. Seriously.
DD is 7 months old and since the so called 4 month sleep regression, she has lost the plot when it's come to sleep.
An average day looks like this:
3 am - wake up screaming. Sometimes has 5oz milk, sometimes happy with water, sometimes self soothes within the 2 minutes it takes for me to wake up enough to move.
5 am - up again, will probably have another 4oz of milk then will sleep in bed with me (OH gets up for work at this time so DD finds it difficult to settle in her cot due to noise from downstairs)
7am - up for the day. Breakfast at 7:30, get dressed, have a play.
Ready for a nap at around 8:30/9am but will often fight it for half an hour. Only able to nap in my arms (screams the house down in her cot/anywhere else)
Then the rest of the day is up to chance but usually wants a nap at around 11 and then again about an hour or two after her lunch at maybe 2/2:30pm.
That's it until 4pm dinner, 5pm bath then bed at around 5:30. She struggles to last any longer than that without getting over tired.
She usually goes down to sleep very easily, no crying or fighting it and will sleep soundly until around midnight/1am when she becomes quite restless but self soothes most of the time. Some nights she will be awake from 1:30 just cooing and singing until about half two when she starts whinging for attention.
She only naps for half an hour at a time, unless I drive her around, but even then she wakes as soon as I have to stop at a light etc.
We have had one night in the past month where she slept through and we thought we had cracked it but nope, she's been worse at sleeping since. But it's frustrating because we now know she can do it and doesn't need milk through the night.
Wow, super long post. Congratulations if you made it this far!
Does anyone have suggestions as to what I can do? Or just tell me that it will get better? I'm so tired!