what the hell is going on?!?!!??!

ok so DD is 12weeks old and for the last week has been carrying on when i put her to bed, but only for her day sleeps.

from day one she has self settled, when she hasnt we have done controlled crying and with in 15 mins she is usually out cold.

but the last week she has just kept sooking and whinging.
i never let her get emtional with her crying, if she starts to sound upset i go in to her.
she used to have a dummy, well never really relied on it but would take it, she is now replacing it with her thumb :doh: prefer she didnt but thats another thread ;)

thing is i can leave her go, and she can whinge/sook/protest cry for 45mins to a hour!
and then when she is asleep it lasts maybe a hour and we follow the same prgram till she goes back to sleep.


her routine looks something like this....

7:30-8am: wake up and 150ml bottle

9-9:30am: nap time

11-12: wake up and 200ml bottle

1-1:30pm : nap time

3-4pm: wake up and 150ml bottle

645pm: bath

7-730pm: 150ml bottle and straight to bed

then sleeps though the night.

im not used to having to deal with a baby who cry's and doesnt settle herself coz she has just done it :redface:

why would she be doing this now??

She may be extending the time she wants to be awake. Does she seem as tired as she used to be? Maybe try giving her an extra half hour between sleeps and see if that helps.

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She may be extending the time she wants to be awake. Does she seem as tired as she used to be? Maybe try giving her an extra half hour between sleeps and see if that helps.

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afternoons she is playing longer but the morning she struggled to hit being up for a hour and half?

maybe she hadn't really learned to 'self settle' and was just zonked :) Like Krysalyss said, she might be extending the time she wants to be awake. With DS at 6 months, even though he can go four + hours without a nap in the middle of the day still only lasts an hour and a half first thing in the morning. I'm quickly figuring out that as soon as I get used to whatever it is he's doing, he'll go and change it up to surprise me :) Some gentle time in a carrier or in the pram to encourage a nap if she needs it might help, or going outside to look at things to 'extend' the time she is awake, so she'll sleep for longer might also help? They're just suggestions, what works for DS. I say that as he's in bed, in dire need of a nap and is chatting away to whoever it is that he talks to when he's falling asleep! I wish they'd let him just go to sleep!

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maybe she hadn't really learned to 'self settle' and was just zonked :) Like Krysalyss said, she might be extending the time she wants to be awake. With DS at 6 months, even though he can go four + hours without a nap in the middle of the day still only lasts an hour and a half first thing in the morning. I'm quickly figuring out that as soon as I get used to whatever it is he's doing, he'll go and change it up to surprise me :) Some gentle time in a carrier or in the pram to encourage a nap if she needs it might help, or going outside to look at things to 'extend' the time she is awake, so she'll sleep for longer might also help? They're just suggestions, what works for DS. I say that as he's in bed, in dire need of a nap and is chatting away to whoever it is that he talks to when he's falling asleep! I wish they'd let him just go to sleep!

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thanks for the suggestions ill definitly try some of them out!

actually outside is a fave place DH takes her out to keep her happy before we eat dinner so i might try and do it during the day to stretch her out a bit.

we have butterflies on DD's walls and she loves watching them! real good idea that was putting them on her walls! :wall:

Oh, I forgot to say, maybe she's also more aware of when you're not there anymore. She might need the reassurance that Mummy hasn't gone for good.

I hear you on the pics on the walls, DS is now trying to grab at his when he wakes up (even though he's still flat on his back!), still it's nice to have something in there that they know is 'their place'.