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5mo old won't settle to sleep anymore

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Liz79 · 18/05/2008 14:53

We had a brilliant bed time routine going with our 5mo DD but the last week or two she has been awful and refuses to go to sleep at her bed time. I get her washed and into PJs and sleeping bag and feed her, and all is happy and well. I put her down and when I walk out the room she cries, or when I get down stairs. We are used to her grumbling a bit before she goes asleep but now she does full blown screaming melt down. She has thrush which seemt to be getting better, and her first 2 teeth came through 2-3 weeks ago. We go and check the nappy and its fine and she stops crying if you pick her up and starts again when we leave her. I try and feed her and she refuses. so we try again. She carries on screaming, the next time she will feed, probably to sleep. why didn't she just feed in the first place? She isn't feeding brilliantly, this got better after a few days of thrush medicine but has deteriorated again. We don't know whether to try weaning her, we wanted to wait to 6m (she only turned 5 yesterday). I don't know what to do. I don't know if its a sleep problem or a feeding problem. She isn't feeding brilliantly but then she can be perfectly happy, although starting to get tired, until we put her to bed.

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claraquitetirednow · 18/05/2008 14:58

sounds like normal behaviour for a 5 month old to me - possibly teeth, possibly hunger, possibly attachment issues, possibly all three or none of the above! sorry not to be any help but i think most babies go through something like this around this age - my dd2 is also 5 months and we were just commenting on how much longer it takes to settle her, she used to go down easily but now almost always needs to be fed or rocked to sleep.

just keep repeating it's just a phase, it will get better, it's just a phase, it will get better....

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