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6 month old won’t sleep at night, wakes & wants held

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Natasha162017 · 03/07/2021 06:37

My 6 month old loves wants held or fed to sleep all night long. I’m exhausted. When I do try and put her down she ends up unsettled due to wind, she takes wind in when bf at night a lot, can’t be winded because she is sleeping....but wakes when I go to put her down.I also fall asleep with her in my arms because so tired. I have tired co sleeping with her to limited success. She has never been a good sleeper, bought a sleep plan so now have her sleeping 3 times during the day but takes a bit of work to get her there. I have a 3 year old so can’t sleep when she does. Any tips would be greatly appreciated....I’m a woman on the edge? Also she won’t take a bottle or dummy so I’m her comforter! 🤦‍♀️

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Mattieandmummy · 03/07/2021 07:01

Have you tried feeding her back to sleep when lying down? I was terrified of dropping mine too so I used to feed to sleep on her side of the bed and then inch very carefully away once asleep.

KatieKat88 · 03/07/2021 07:09

Oh god this takes me back (but just have DD so actually a lot easier than you have it, but felt impossible at the time!) I found once her naps got better night sleep improved a bit but it took months and we didn't really sleep train beyond getting her used to rocking rather than always feeding to sleep, and getting her used to her cot. Controlled crying when we went in after X number of minutes didn't work for us but we tried it briefly in desperation, it did work for some of my NCT lot with babies of a different temperament to DD!

One thing that has helped her recently is having a bunny to sleep with (she's 19 months now so obviously a different situation). If yours is confident rolling etc would that help? I picked one, made sure she was with us when feeding DD and put her down with her every nap and bedtime. It could help as a comforting influence?

parietal · 03/07/2021 07:11

Mine did that when she was hungry. She didn't eat much in the day (at nursery) was would feed & refuse to be out down all night. It was exhausting.

Can you try extra food in the day, and also if baby has her best sleep early (9pm-2am ish) then use that time to sleep yourself.

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