Advice please Lil monkey not sleeping

Hi all,

My 6month old has been a fantastic day napper, she has up until recently LOVED being wrapped during the day (sleeping bag at night) and now is over being wrapped (i know you are only meant to wrap until 4 months or so) but she WILL not go to sleep any more, i have tried wrapping, not wrapping, patting etc etc but she just wants to get on her tummy and get into any mischief she can, i am never far away and have tried leaving her to see if she will go to sleep but she can be in there for over an hour and if i go any where near her she will start giggling and smiling at me.

Just after some ideas of different things i can try. She is commando crawling at the speed of light and constantly getting on all fours and rocking away and she thinks she is pretty clever (well so do i actually) so she can get to whatever she wants now and wont sit or lay still.

HELP!!!!!!! She is growing up way too fast.

I think she's just having way too much fun with her new found mobility!!

Does she get tired if you leave her in the cot for a while?
Have you tried laying down with her?

Thats all I can think of. Maybe if she's happy in the cot leave her there where she's safe & get a few things done.
Do you rock her to sleep?

She wont lay still at all. She has just gone down FINALLY i have been trying since 11am i fed her a tin of custard and some veges and bf her and she feel asleep on me. Now i'm too buggered to do the house work LOL!

I think she is getting her top teeth now or they are moving around cos she is back to dribbling and chewing everything like crazy.

She will stay in the cot for ages but then will get tangled in her sheets or bang her head or get a leg out of the bars then i have to go in and she gets all excited and giggles etc etc. Its very cute but hard when you know how tired she is.

When my DS gets to this stage I'm going to buy rolls and rolls of bandages from the chemist and wrap him up like a mummy...so he can't roll, crawl, walk.....LOL. I don't want him to grow up....waaaahhhhhh!!!!

LOL, Just kidding....sorry I don't have any sensible advice. Have you tried to play some soft music in her room and draw the blinds to darken the room, maybe that will help her relax.

LOL Marlene that could work hehe she is so full of beans, with my others they weren't even thinking about half the stuff she is doing, she is probably going to be running around before i know it aaaarrrrggggghhhh!!!!!!!

Ooh, Marlene! Thats a good idea! :rofl:
So Trina - Have you tried laying down with her to put her to sleep?
Does she have a dummy? The only way Jesse will sleep is in HIS cot with the dummy. He's not too keen on rocking/feeding etc to sleep. If I'm in the room its play time. But he's not quite as mobile as Summer!
Have you tried rocking her in the pram? It might be a bit quicker & less stress.

I used the sleeping bag for day naps too because DD was a bit of a cot gymnast too. She also had a favourite blankie that she was wrapped in so I started putting it under her head and she grabs that with one hand and puts her thumb in her mouth with the other. But you could try putting something that smells of you (like a t-shirt) and put it over the mattress maybe.

Hope you find something that works - it is VERY cute when they're so pleased to see you but also very tiring if you have to spend ages trying to get them to sleep!

I might try the sleeping bag, its been too hot for the sleeping bag the last few nights and last night it took me well over an hour to get her to sleep again. She is in my room so i ended up sitting on my bed for a while and she was happy with that but still trying to sit up, hehe she was pretty much doing a full sit up.

As soon as i went to bed she woke up and was in my bed all night of course she lays down happily but wakes constantly. Just one of those stages i guess.

We'll see what shennanigans she gets into today.