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How to stop rocking to sleep?

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BackIntoTheSun · 29/03/2018 10:26

DD is 6 months old and has to be rocked to sleep for every nap and at night (and then is fed to sleep during the night). She just won't settle herself at all. Trouble is I have chronic fatigue and she is getting too heavy for me to be rocking her for 5-10 minutes several times a day. She also fights every nap, scratching and pulling my hair and it gets me extremely stressed.

We tried doing pick up put down at night but it didn't really make much of a difference and we've put it on hold for now but I don't see how we could use that for naps anyway as it would be going on all day. Even when she does go down for a nap she only sleeps 30 minutes usually, even if she's in the buggy or the car.

Any ideas for how I can get her to go down without rocking? She has a nap routine already and won't feed to sleep during the day

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