Help! I’ve tried every trick in the book but my daughter turns 1 next week and she still can’t self settle.
She went from a Chicco next to me crib in our room at 7months into her own room in a cot but she hated it instantly. She’s always been breastfed and will only fall asleep whilst feeding from me or being walked around on my husbands shoulder.
Unfortunately she’s never been interested in a dummy and doesn’t suck her thumb. She won’t take my milk from a bottle at all (we’ve tried loads of different ones!) so I basically can’t leave her at all of an evening to meet up with friends or anything.
She naps on one of us during the day but recently dropped her morning nap so now just has a 1.5-2hour nap in the afternoon.
Then she’s co-sleeping with us which is fine but we want our bed back now! She does sleep ok in our room but if she stirs in the night she wants to be breastfed again. She’s waking 2-3 times per night and gets around 9 hours sleep over night by the time we get her to sleep in the evening.
So she’s only getting about 10-12 hours sleep per day which I know isn’t enough for her age!
Does anyone have any recommendations on night projectors? I’m considering giving that ago! She’s mesmerised by the Christmas tree so I’m wondering if she might at least settle with that as a distraction in her cot.