This sleep lark just seems to be going from bad to worse
The day after I last posted she had a 30 min sleep in the morning followed by 2 hours (first 30 min in her cot then me holding her) and I thought great, this is looking a bit more positive, even if I did have to hold her. But since then she's managing 30 mins tops in her cot and will sometimes go back to sleep if I hold her, or else I'm having to drive her around, and that doesn't always work either.
I'm sitting in her room holding her now, she's been asleep for an hour, but i haven't been able to put her back in her cot since he woke after 20 mins. Last night it took me 1h20m to put her to bed and I came out of her room and cried with frustration. DH is back now, I know controlled crying is on the tip of his tongue, but I think he knows that my reaction to that wouldn't be pretty! My friend reckons it's still a reaction to the mmr, as most kids we know had a reaction around the 10 days to 2 weeks mark.
I started a food/activity diary this morning to see if I could see any patterns, but other than that I'm stuck.
If you've read this far, thanks for listening! Not sure if anyone cn suggest anything else, I'm just venting really I think
It cuold be any number of things. My only real advice is to try not to try so hard
If she won't sleep, just let her be awake. I know she needs to. I know she's knackered and overtired, but it really isn't worth the effort. I gave up on day sleeps with DS from around 10 months or so. By 16 months he was into a fairly predicatble routine - just happened eventually. There are few things worse than spending an hour (or two) to get them to sleep for only 30 minutes.
The only time I really kept trying was at bed time - it was better when it was only once a day.
I always find with babies and sleep, if they're sleeping well it feels like a fluke and there's no chance it'll last, but when they're sleeping badly it feels like it'll be like this forever!
Just thought I'd throw my two cents in my DD1 went down to one sleep at ten months but can never make it to midday. She has to go down for a sleep at 10-10.30. She's nearly 19 months now and is still more than happy with what's happening. Marcellus gave such good advice. Try not trying so hard. And the transition from two to one sleep is very difficult. Agh!! Sleep. It's the bane of most mothers' existences methinks! xx
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my DD1 went down to one sleep at ten months but can never make it to midday. She has to go down for a sleep at 10-10.30. She's nearly 19 months now and is still more than happy with what's happening. Marcellus gave such good advice. Try not trying so hard. And the transition from two to one sleep is very difficult. Agh!! Sleep. It's the bane of most mothers' existences methinks! xx
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