Hi all,
Just need to vent and get some advice as OH and I are at absolute breaking point with our 5 month old. She's absolutely beautiful and I just love her so much but her main problem is she just doesn't sleep. We started with her at 4.5months as she was so upset during the day and I just felt like I was starving her no matter how much I fed her, I had ebf. She started sleeping a lot better and was generally happier after we introduced two meals a day along with her normal milk feeds. She even slept through the night one night and I couldn't believe the time when we woke up. However this week, has been absolutely horrific, I could count on one hand how many hours sleep I've had.. And probably she's had. She goes down for a nap in the morning and wakes up immediately after five or ten minutes. Lunch time I take her out to get her off for an afternoon nap, she can do up to an hour in the buggy. Night times have been horrific, she's been waking up hysterically crying pretty much every hour, we thought she was teething.. Gave her calpol, bonjela, teething granules, took her to the doctors they said it could be a low level virus or she could have the start of a cold, she's been a bit bunged up so we bought a calpol vapour plug which has helped her breathing.. But her night waking is just horrendous. Last night OH who is on the sofa at the moment due to working 6 days a week burst in whilst she was crying for the third time and said to move her into the other room and let her cry it out. I refused point blank and at this age if she's crying then Its for a reason. In the end just to get some peace I let her sleep on me and I slept upright, it was horrific. I literally woke up with no moisture in my eyes at all. I really don't know what to do. She also makes bedtime routine such a battle, OH always does bedtime to give me a rest but she gets so agitated and makes the whole thing so difficult. She's gaining weight really well and eats really well, she demolished a whole bowl of baby rice and apple puree for dinner and I give her a bedtime feed an hour and fifteen minutes later so I'm fairly sure she's not starving. The other night she woke up after two hours of being put down and I just burst into tears as I knew how long it'd take her to resettle back to sleep.. 3 hours approximately. Took 3 feeds and rocking to get her back to sleep only for her to wake up again two hours later. I really don't know what to do. She's also recently started to roll over and does this constantly in her sleep now which also wakes her up. I used to swaddle her and she slept better but can't anymore. Please can anyone tell me it'll get better I'm at my total wits end. OH and I don't have any family to help us it's just us.