Looking for advice, solidarity, I don’t know lol!
My DD is 20 weeks, so I know she is at the height of sleep regression-time and it could just be that, but I just don’t know what to do to help her!
She is always tired by 6pm, we used to do bedtime and have her settled by 6-6:30. Bottle, bath, book, bed. Sometimes she’d self settle straight away sometimes she might need a little help with rocking etc. She has always sucked her thumb to get herself off to sleep.
For the last week or so its as if she’s just forgotten how to do it at bedtime! She’s still showing all the signs of being tired and 6-6:30 but she will not settle to sleep, she’ll be trying for an hour and eventually will ramp up to screaming/sobbing and then conk out. We sometimes try things to help like rocking etc but it just makes her more angry now!!
She still settles herself well when she wakes at night up until she gets hungry sometime between 3-5 and then I end up having to hold her every hour from then until we get up to get her to go back to sleep.
It’s almost as if now she can roll from her back, the second she sticks her thumb in she moves like she wants to roll over, but then out her thumb comes and she gets frustrated and it just carries on and on until she gets so overtired and angry that she eventually conks out with exhaustion. I can pick her up n calm her and then as soon as she’s put down it just starts again.
How do I help her?!? I just don’t know what to do!!