She won't go to sleep.

[MummaSue]

Thanks everyone. She settled at around 9.30pm but that was with an almighty crash...... poor wee sausage. I'd been trying to get her to go to sleep since 7pm - when she showed me that she was tired.

A friend has my NCSS book and I am just about to email her to ask for them back!

[HotI]

Has Moozle been taking in more solid foods lately? I wonder if maybe her tummy is getting used to all the new things and its upsetting her abit.

[dusty]

Sounds like you all needed a hug last night .

Perhaps she just needed comfort cause of teeth etc even though she was so tired? My DD is currently doing something similar in the middle of the night and I was stressing about it until I realised that she would get to sleep eventually and she would get enough sleep and it wouldn't hurt her really and the best thing is to give her cuddles and calm her as she needs it.
MS you are doing a fabulous job raising your beautiful daughter and I look to your parenting experiences quite a lot as a guide for my own as I think we have similar approaches.

[MummaSue]

Kate, she seems to be taking a wee bit more in. And I have noticed from her nappies that she is struggling to get a poo out. I wonder if she's a bit blocked up. She hasn't had a good poo for a few days and she's very windy - burps and pumps!

I just had another screaming match trying to get her down for her nap. Again, she's been showing me that she's tired for about an hour yet when it comes to settling down, she's all over the place. She is clearly exhausted but just won't give into it.

I've given her some nurofen for her ??teething. Not sure what to do for the potential pooing problem. Just keep feeding I guess. When she wakes I am going to put her in the sling. My nerves are a bit shattered today and I'm not feeling as patient as I usually am, I really hope she's not picking up those vibes

Thanks for your kind words Dusty

ETA Just also realised that she's 36 weeks this week and THAT my friends is a WONDER WEEK (week 37)!

[human bean]

You are describing almost word for word the last 3 or 4 weeks in my house! Every sleep has become a real struggle, and my patience has been wearing really thin. DH has been a saviour through the night and on weekends as I've needed a little bit of distance so DD doesn't pick up on it. (I hate to admit that but it's true, we have all been running on little sleep and I don't wear it very well!)

It's been so frustrating because she is really tired, but fighting it and fighting it. We've only woken twice overnight the last few nights, and she is starting to be a but more chilled for day naps, so I hope it's passing. Don't mean to go on about us, but just wanted you to know you're not alone, and hopefully it will all calm down soon Everytime we hit a WW I think it can't be as intense as the previous one, but no..... ha ha

With the poos, I find as long as I'm offering DD a range of fruit each day, she's pretty good with pooping, miss it a day or two and she seems to block up. Pear seems to work a treat here

[onthefly]

At that age DS would not sleep when tired, only when absolutely, completely shattered beyond belief. So he dropped a sleep and I just learned to wait till he literally could not hold his head up any more, then would take him for a walk.

[MummaSue]

At that age DS would not sleep when tired, only when absolutely, completely shattered beyond belief. So he dropped a sleep and I just learned to wait till he literally could not hold his head up any more, then would take him for a walk.

Thanks Marcellus, I'm thinking the same about DD. It seems that she has to be sooooooo buggered to go over at the moment. I'm trying to roll with her punches but she's a handful and I'm feeling quite burnt out at the moment. We got out for a huge walk this morning though, which was good for me - and of course good for her. I've realised too that I haven't been looking after myself as well as I could which is probably contributing to being so frayed around the edges and vice versa.
Today is a brand new day

[MummaSue]

With the poos, I find as long as I'm offering DD a range of fruit each day, she's pretty good with pooping, miss it a day or two and she seems to block up. Pear seems to work a treat here

You know, that's a good point, over the weekend we haven't had our usual morning and afternoon tea fruit that we have. Everything goes to ***** at the weekend when daddy is home LOL We get into a good groove in the week then the weekends are totally different.

Will get some rockmelon and pear into her today!