Hi, new here and need some advice. I have a 9 mth old DD who is becomming very difficult to get to sleep/resettle/sleep in general.
She is a very "attached" little one, has spent the better half of each night since birth in our bed, which has always been fine when she sleeps, but then it all turned to **** a few weeks before her first teeth appeared (about 2 mths ago), and now every night it's hard to get her to sleep, we always cuddle her until she's just closing her eyes, then put her in her cot which has always worked until recently. Then when she wakes about midnight(ish) I usually bring her into our bed so she can have a feed and then she would go back to sleep between us.
Now as soon as we even move to put her down (either in her cot or our bed) she wakes up (doesn't seem to matter even if she's fast asleep) and just starts screeming. Once she is asleep she only sleeps 2-3 hours then wakes crying again. Even when she is in our bed she still wakes crying every 2-3 hours and is very hard to calm down and resettle, many nights have seen me craddling her in my arms until she finally stops squirming and goes to sleep, which leads to me getting very uncomfortable and TIRED!!
It's not hunger, because if I try to feed her she just pushes me away. We are getting stressed (mainly from lack of sleep) and as we try and work out what on earth her problem is we are trying to stay positive about this passing.
She's otherwise well, has taken her to the doctors, no obvious physical reason for her to be so upset EVERY night, any (gentle) advice would be appreciated.... ???
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