So if anyone remembers any previous threads, DD has had sleep issues for many months now. I really miss when she only woke up three times a night.
Now we are co-sleeping, as waking up 6-9 times every night was finally just too much to handle. The first several co-sleeping nights were a tiny bit better; when she woke up I just fed her to sleep without having to really wake up.
Now I am getting less sleep than before, as she just doesn't fall asleep for the entire night. She seems asleep but keeps tossing and turning and crawling and whimpering, so I have to stay alert the whole night to make sure she doesn't crawl off the side of the bed or bang her head against the brick wall. She crawls to me, so I cuddle her, but she doesn't like it, crawls off me again, garrr it's driving me insane and I can't take it anymore. I just want to get an hour or two of sleep.
I'm waiting for an amber necklace to be delivered (fingers crossed this saves us) but what else can I do??
Her day naps have been quite good, she only has one long one, and another 40minute one later in the day. She's generally happy and energetic during the day (despite no deep sleep WTH?)
I think it's time I get really proactive about her sleep.
Any gentle parenting ideas? I just want her back in her cot without me having to get up every single hour of the night.
Do I just like.. start trying a sleep scheme eg NCSS? What other options are there?
:hugs: I know how you feel.
I went through something similar with ds, and it looks like dd is following suit and i'm desperate for her not to.
we road it out after many sleepless nights and had a vast improvement when we put him in a bed (king single room for an adult too)
I know it's wrong but I will happily let a child go to sleep with me and then move them to their own bed.
I can't give you any tips but like you I too would prefer a gentle parenting idea, i'm not a fan of people telling me that I have to do this and have to do that. etc etc and definetly don't do controlled crying.
I have been really tring hard to read the sleep cues for dd, and put her to bed awake, at the right time to self settle, sometimes i succeed but we are still fluctuating between getting up 3 times a night or what feels like every 30 minutes.
I miss rem sleep sooo much, and am constantly exhausted.
Is she teething?
DS was like this for months when teething. Nothing actually helped, I'm afraid. He just couldn't settle while he felt uncomfortable. As soon as theh teeth were through, he slept (until the next lot started).
Could you sleep on a mattress on the floor instead of bed - at least then you wouldn't have to worry about her rolling out.
I always just assumed it was her teeth, but she hasn't had any come through yet, and I don't see any activity there at all. I wish there was some way of knowing for sure.
I guess if that amber necklace helps, that will tell me. Gosh I cannot wait to get it, I'm depending on it for my sanity.
Doesn't help that DH refuses to help out in any way.
I am going to take your advice marcellus and sleep on floor; such a smart idea!
Any other suggestions are welcome.
i'm another fan of co-sleeping on a matress on the floor. ours is in DS' room as well - i like it in there because i feel like it's letting him know that it's his room. when he co-slept in our room, it just always felt so temporary.
I just noticed she is nine months which is prime bad-sleeping time. Search for some of my threads from the 8-10 month stage and I was loosing the plot.
It's a time of rapid brain growth, which is why she is unsettled.
I was going to ask if she is teething too as my DS was the same and it felt like just as one tooth popped through another come up. We ended up going to a sleep school and using 'comforted crying' I found it hell and didn't really solve anything. I wish I had some better answers for you.
Sleep issues I don't know what to do anymore
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