Advice on sleep 😴
I have a 6 month old girl who has decided from 4 months she no longer wants to sleep through the night 🥲. She is up every 2 ish hours throughout the night, I think she goes out of her sleep cycle and struggles to get back to sleep herself, she only sleeps on me during the day and knows it’s bed time and happy sleeping in her next to me but it’s the staying to sleep she struggles with. I’ve not changed her sleep routine, kept it the same. She wants to sleep from about 6:30/7 (depending on when she wakes up from her last nap) so going to bed later isn’t an option, I’ve tried it and she doesn’t like it. When she got to 6 months, we transitioned her to her own room. It’s just got worse, she HATES her cot and I’ve moved her next to me into her own room and she finds it better, obviously, she isn’t going to last much longer in there as she’s getting way too big. I’ve been sleeping on the floor in her room so she isn’t on her own and mainly to give me a bit more sleep. When her dummy comes out, she can’t self soothe back to sleep. I can’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, sleep deprivation is really getting to me!! 🥲🥲
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do / change?
Also how to transition her into her cot? I think she likes the small space of the next to me!
She can be rocked back to sleep when she wakes up or sometimes I give her a bottle to go back down.
Hope I’ve given enough information here, any advice welcome 🤍!
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Mama, get that baby in your bed! Look up @happycosleeper on instagram and safe sleep 7! It is the best way for you and baby to sleep! She’ll feel close to you and you to her! They are only little once and they still need you! I promise they will grow up, sleep through the night in their own bed one day, but 6 months old is still time for snuggles in bed with you! Soak it all up 🫶🏻
No advice- just know you’re heard, I can see how hard it is and I acknowledge your struggle, hope this turns around in the best way possible for you! 💕
Sounds like she's hungry and needing cuddles, after 9 months being snuggled all day and all night in the womb, it's such a hard shock to be disconnected so much physically. Cosleeping is what helped me, but i know everyone is different, hope you find what works for you
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