Help! Sleep has suddenly become utterly impossible. We’ve never had a good sleeper- DD has always woken at least 3 times a night, but we can cope with that.
In the last 2 weeks she’s now resisting her daytime naps (which used to be ok) and crying her eyes out if we try to rock her and put her in her cot as we used to.
She’s also waking every half an hour to hour all night- she used to sleep until 10/11pm after a 7pm bedtime but now wakes 2 or 3 times by 10/11pm and sometimes we have to sit with her while just cries and cries before she goes back to sleep, albeit briefly.
By this time, I usually give up and put her in bed with me, which usually stops the crying, however she doesn’t actually sleep and will try to crawl around chatting and hyper until hour 2am. This is usually when I’m lose my mind and have a sob! Then if I’m lucky she’ll sleep for a few hours- usually with a few crying wake ups, a lot of clawing at me and on and off feeds.
She’s been to the docs and has had a chest infection and has had 4 teeth through recently (the front 4). So I know that this must be related. However, as time goes on things aren’t improving and in some ways are getting worse, I’m starting to think it’s a sleep regression. Once we think she’s fully better and over her teething, we’re considering a gentle form of cry it out that we did at the nightmare of the 3/4/5 month sleep regression- going in and out every 5 mins to soothe her but no picking up.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I’m particularly at a loss of what to do with her in the hyper stage when she’s in bed with me from about 11-2am... any tips?! We’re also heavily mourning the loss of our evenings, which in my mind make sleepless nights easier to cope with when you can have a few hours to yourself and eat dinner, so are pretty desperate. I know if it’s a sleep regression most people will say ride it out... but has anyone has any success with crying it out or similar at a stage like this? Any advice massively appreciated!