Hi all.
DD is seven months old and normally a pretty good napper. However, for the past couple of weeks she’s been increasingly hard to settle for daytime naps and sleeping for much shorter periods.
She’s currently napping on me as she was flatly refusing to go in her cot. After 20 odd minutes of shushing and rocking she finally fell asleep in my arms, but every time I put her down in her cot her eyes would snap open and she’d start crying. So I would pick her up and the cycle would begin again. Eventually, after the 4th time of this happening, I’ve given in and she’s fast asleep on me. Even if she does stay asleep in her cot, she rarely sleeps for longer than 15/20 minutes.
She’s otherwise good as gold, very happy and content, and she thankfully still sleeps well at night (7pm - 8am with only one wakeup), it’s just daytime naps that seem to be going to pot! She’s also very easily bored so can’t be put in her Jumperoo/chair or left with a toy for more than 5/10 minutes before she starts crying. She’s always been a bit like that but at least when she napped well during the day I could get stuff done when she slept! Now that she’s hardly sleeping during the day and needing constant entertainment I feel like I can’t get anything done!
I believe part of it may be separation anxiety as she will often cry if I leave the room. She can self soothe at night (we’ll often hear her chatting away to herself over the monitor for a few minutes in the night before she falls asleep again) but she can’t seem to do it during the day?
Has anyone else experienced this?
Many thanks 