Please help !!! Very tired mum

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I've posted here recently about my 10 month old little girl standing up in cot etc , we've got over that hump , she was ill last week and ever since her sleep has been terrible. Screaming before going to bed , waking up screaming at the top of her lungs between 1 and 3 in the morning and it can take up to 2 hours to settle her back down. I've been lying next to her cot pretending I'm sleeping but don't know if that's the right thing to do. I've let her play in her cot so that she doesn't associate it with being upset etc. If anyone has any suggestions please throw them my way as I don't want this happening over the Christmas holidays etc , I want to enjoy it and not be absolutely shattered. Thanks in advance ladies xxx

We had a similar thing at around 9/10 months but my little girl wasn’t screaming when waking, just wide awake. Could it be teething? Or separation anxiety? Maybe try some calpol and some milk and see if that settles her. Or bring her into your bed. Don’t worry about creating bad habits, we done all that and after a week or so she went back to sleeping all night. Anything to get through the hard times

Thank you we tried to bring her into our bed and she can't get comfy and my partner is a heavy sleeper and nearly rolls on top of me sometimes so would worry about her and wouldn't sleep anyway , this morning I let her play in her cot while I got dressed for work and then took her out, then for her morning nap I kept her room door wide open and popped in and out a couple of times so she knew I was still there, she had a wee moan but went to sleep , don't know if this will work but hoping it passes for Christmas, so hard isn't it ? X

Can I join? I’m really struggling at night with my DD, she is nearly 4 months old. She’s never been a good sleeper but I feel she’s getting worse. I have tired putting her in a routine of a bath at 7 and then giving her a bottle, she has finally started going in her next to me cot but sometimes not without a fight. We have to put a rocker on the cot and play soothing music or white noise. Sometimes she’s wakes and just needs resettling but sometimes sleeps until about half 10 / 11 which is fine but she will not go back down unless she co sleeps with me. This being said she only sleeps until about half 1 /2 and then is really unsettled until she finally does a poo about 6 / 6:30 but by then after changing her she’s awake. But she wants to go back to sleep about 8am when I’m awake down stairs. She has never slept through or longer than 4 hours, please help.

Have you tried resettling and straight back into cot ?? I did this with Eva and after a few nights she was used to the cot , it's probably out of habit she's waking like my little girl , give yourself a few nights to try and settle her back into cot with rocking it when she wakes etc , I know how tired you must be xxx