We have 2 carriers. A peanut shell, which I use mostly for the shops now, and a hug-a-bub. We both love the HAB and I can get her out of that easy enough to transfer her into bed once she is asleep.
Majority of the time I try to get her into bed once she is asleep but have on occasion left her in the sling if I am having a particularly hard day.
Occasionally. She used to do it all the time when she was a little little baby, but now she eats, and doesn't normally go to sleep while feeding unless we are in bed at night.
You poor thing.
This sounds just awful.
Is it possible that she has an allergy and it is making her feel really bad? Has she always not slept during the day? Has she always been a screamer (there is nothing worse than a screaming child...it makes me angry too). It may be worthwhile trying an elimination diet to see if there is somehing upsetting her system. It sounds a bit like she is in pain with the thrashing and screaming etc.
I don't really have any other advice, I have always had a little nap time routine for Flynn and we generally don't have any problems.
I hope you figure it out soon, you really need a break
Kel babe, I know how frustrating it is to have sleep problems... you desperately want help but no-one seems to know how to resolve it or IRL people just tell you to CC/CIO cause it worked for them, or "they've got to learn".
So you said she might sleep up to 40 mins.... does she not nap at all most days or does she sometimes have short naps during the day? would she have just one or more? Does she tend to sleep in the car? the pram? Or only the sling?
When she wakes in the night, will she settle any other way besides the boob? I found the night a good way to experiment with other ways of settling DD. She is in a side-car arrangement, so I can respond as soon as she wakes and "shhhh" or hum and stroke her until she is back asleep. Once I discovered this, I found I could use it in the day also to help her settle. I also introduced a comforter (toy) for her to suck on. I put it in her hand as I am putting on her sleeping bag, and it seems to work really well.
Otherwise could you wear her in the sling until she is drowsy and then transfer to her bed (that way she is falling asleep in the same place as she will wake up)??
Some babies just seem to be catnappers, but it must be so, so tiring!!
She has the last few days had a nap during the day, which is making it easier on me, but I am still having to wake to her many times per night.
We are now starting the night off in her pull out couch by our bed and she is happy there. Her first feed of the night a couple hours after she goes to bed, I sit up and feed her then she goes back down to the pull out couch.
Then she wakes every hour or so and this is just silly, so she comes back into bed with me.
I think I am just going to have to stick it out and refuse to feed her one of her night feeds and just settle her by cuddling and hopefully she will stop waking for that feed.
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