Any suggestions most welcome! FTM. My little girl will be 7 months old next week, EBF.
She contact naps during the day but I'm really struggling to get her to sleep on a night. She had always fed to sleep but this is starting to take hours. This week alone we've had four almost midnight and one nearly 1am before she's gone to sleep and I'm more exhausted than ever now! I follow her sleep cues and wake windows, but they don't seem to matter at bed time! She will often go 4.5hrs since her last nap, however, if I try to get her to sleep around 8pm she just treats it as a nap and we end up awake longer!
We try to keep her active between naps and have plenty of face to face time but also ensure we 'wind down' and keep things calm and settled before bed time with the TV off etc. She had a phase of going down at 22.30 and waking at 08.30, which worked well, but that soon changed! She does feed regularly over night so her longest stretch is usually 3-4 hours which im fine with. I have a small holding so need to be up on a morning but I'm having to rely on husband and step son to do the morning jobs as things are getting worse by the day and I don't know what to do!
If Dad tries to rock/cuddle her she just becomes hysterical until she is back with me, even if she can see me.
Last night it took me over 2 and a half hours to get her down to sleep, she eventually got herself upset and then fell asleep on my shoulder, it breaks my heart when she is that tired but I can't seem to get her asleep before this point!
Any suggestions to help out one tired mama are greatly appreciated!