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6 month old refusing to sleep

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LadyCassandra · 06/01/2019 23:58

DD has always been a good sleeper. We had a horrendous time with DS2 so I started with good habits. She always went down in her cot awake, and was really good at self settling.
She had her 4 month jabs at 5 months and this coincided with some sleep regression, so we had a tough couple of weeks but she was starting to get back to normal when my relatives arrived for Christmas (we’re in Australia) for 3 weeks.
Her routine went completely out of the window. She’s been rocked to sleep, kept up late slept in our bed when she wouldn’t sleep at night and just generally spoilt rotten.
All this was fine, I thought I would try and get into some kind of routine when they left but she literally won’t go to sleep. Not by herself, not by rocking, not anything. Last night she screamed on and off for over an hour before bed. And we had a bad night. This morning DH let me sleep in and said she had been fighting sleep for 2 hours. She eventually went to sleep on DS1.
I don’t know how or where to start. Any ideas?

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LadyCassandra · 07/01/2019 08:28

Bumping as I posted in the middle of the night!

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Dorabean · 07/01/2019 08:37

Will she go down for her naps? Have you tried white noise to try and settle her?

LadyCassandra · 07/01/2019 08:53

Won’t go down for naps. We play lullaby music every night so I thought that might comfort her. But nope!
Currently lying on the bed next to her bassinet 40 mins after starting bedtime listening to get whinge. She starts grunbling so I leave her but just gets more and more worked up. I’ve picked her up, comforted her, out her down and she starts crying again. Repeat. Repeat.

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greenybluey · 07/01/2019 12:21

I'm in same situation. No ideas. I've tried everything. Very reluctantly considering controlled crying.

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