Hi, second attempt at posting!
My little boy is 6 months old and from the age of 8 weeks old it was like a light switched on in his head, and from that point onwards every single nap time is a complete battle, and some days none existent!
On a night he does sleep but needs constant resettling throughout the night. But will only fall to sleep and stay asleep if swaddled. And as he’s now so big I have to sometimes swaddle him 3x to get him to be able to wind down. He’s literally NEVER sleepy. When he starts to get tiered he gets really hyperactive and thrashes his whole body around screeching.
He’s never been a particularly happy or easy baby, breastfed but colicky, reflux, etc etc. He won’t be cuddled to sleep, pram doesn’t work, car works 20% of the time.
Without putting him into a silent, pitch black room, swaddled he will not sleep.
HV suggested leaving him one day see what he does. Well we did and he stayed awake for 12 hours solid with no signs of caving. He was gouging at his eyes and screaming in a way I’ve never heard before he was THAT tiered. The day after he was no better.
I haven’t created the swaddle as a sleep association as he stopped sleeping before we introduced it.
He’s in the middle of leaps at the moment and he’s worse than ever.
We’ve paid for cranial osteopathy, Sleep programmes, and believe me when I say I’ve tried everything I really have. Today he’s been up since 6.10am and it’s now 15.25pm and he’s had 20 minutes nap in the car as we’ve had appointments. He’s still thrashing around so I’m going to have to go swaddle him in a dark room.
I feel so housebound and isolated missing stuff because he just can’t seem to handle life! He hates baby groups, busy places etc, he gets so over stimulated so fast then just cries!
At my wits end here :-( x