Firstly, I would like to say huge HUGS to you, it is nothing you are doing wrong.
I was in a similar position, Ally would scream till 2am every night and all day unless she was on the boob - I thought it was normal, till my sister visited at 7 weeks and said that her babies did not cry all day and all night - and that something was wrong with my baby... So I read some books and "Sleeping like a baby" recommended a hammock. (We had tried everything else, wrapping, rocking, sling, etc..)
We constructed the hammock at 10.30am, at 10.32 she was asleep and sleept for 2 hours.. We were gob smacked, she had NEVER slept for more than 30mins during the day and it normally took 2+ hours of crying first.
Our lives changed from that moment on..
As soon as she had been awake for one hour, I would put her in the hammock and rock it, and within minutes she would fall asleep and wake up happy... The poor little tyke was just over tired.
I can't belive that I nearly went to the Emergency room at 2am as she had been awake and screaming since 5pm...
I highly recommend the hammock - and recognising the tired signs...it changed our lives.
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