DD is 6 months. Sounds dramatic but I’m in tears writing this. I have health problems which the GP is looking at but I feel run down and tired as it is. DD had slept roughly 7.30-7 since she was 10 weeks old. Bath, bottle, myhummy on and she’d sleep perfectly in her own room. However she started having so much of the bottle to fall asleep she was making herself sick so I gave her a dummy. She only has it now when she’s tired or poorly. At first she woke up maybe twice a night for the dummy to be put back in and this didn’t bother me.
However, now she will go down at about 8.30 (after a bath, bottle, spitting dummy out 10283 times, writing around, whinging, then crying). Then she wakes up once between 3am to 5am and just will not go to sleep. I’ve tried the dummy, a bottle, a comforter (which I remove once she’s asleep but the problem is I’m waiting so long for her to fall asleep I end up so awake I can’t sleep) but she will not settle until I give up and bring her into bed with me. She lays next to me, turns to me and snuggles in and goes to sleep in seconds. Although I love this and co slept for the first 8 weeks of her life whilst breastfeeding I don’t want to co sleep now. My bed is high up and I have no guards, I have to put a pillow on the side which I know is dangerous and I don’t want her to carry on the habit of ending up in bed with me. (It normally happens twice a week when I feel so exhausted I just give in)
She could sleep at DMs maybe once every two weeks but it doesn’t solve the problem of me feeling absolutely exhausted, as like I said if I have broken sleep I feel like I’ve had none at all. I feel like a zombie at the minute. She’s such a light sleeper too that the slightest cough and she’s wide awake despite her myhummy (which does actually help a lot)
It feels like an endless cycle of me finally getting her to sleep but being too awake to sleep myself! Has anyone else experienced this and have any tips to help her sleep through again? 