Hey everyone.
I’m absolutely knackered. I’m at the end of the rope now with my 7 month old dd. I absolutely adore here but wow, sleep deprived is not the one right now.
Dd was the perfect newborn and slept through quite quickly, of course still had feeds during the night but every 3.5/4 hours which was fine by me.
4 month sleep regression hit us hard and we haven’t moved past this and she’s now 7 months. She’s a very quick learner, rolling by 4 months, army crawling at 5 months and full blown crawling and pulling herself up on furniture by 7 months. She’s very advanced I think. All of this I know plays a big part of sleep as she’s going through all the developmental stages.
She is teething. However, even calpol doesn’t help.
We do bath times every other night as she has suffered with eczema in the past so this is what works best for her skin. Followed by a chilled 45mins/1 hour and then bedtime. She is exclusively breastfed.
Day time naps are contact naps as as soon as I put her in her cot she wakes immediately and cries and if I try to re settle, she just wakes up as soon as I put her down again and then is awake, refuses to nap again so therefore I have a very tired grumpy baby. Contact naps is the only time she will actually sleep.
Bedtime is usually around 7-8pm. I feed, put her down and she then wakes up within 30 mins. Feed again (I know, just for comfort! But without she will scream!), put down and I may get a lucky 45 mins and then up again. Feed and then back down for an hour or so. Basically by 10pm she’s up every hour/hour and half. Co sleeping she sleeps much better, obviously, but I want this time with my partner as we are kidded out all day.
Ive tried the ‘cio’ method and she will just scream and scream and scream. (Checking on her every 10 mins I may add). She just does not settle, at all without being picked up and fed.
Shes on 1 - 2 meals a day but I’m not overly fused with this as not putting any pressure on her eating, she’s just having fun with it at the moment.
Has anyone else got any advice? I know there will be light at the end of the tunnel but waking up every hour/hour and half is killing me.