Thank you for your reply! Last night I struggled for 3 hours with her and then just gave up and she slept in our bed all night from 10pm and screamed whenever I put her in her cot.
Sorry, I don't know what a lovely is? She is using a paci and in the day time is great with it, when it falls out she still sleeps, but at night it doesn't seem to do much soothing when she is worked up. But then when we remove it from her she get so upset!
our routine is pretty rock solid, we did EASY from day 1 - however at night it goes a bit pear shaped in that her sleeping time is not that consistent and we shower her instead of bathing when we are home:
E7.30am BF in bed with me - 10 minutes
A7.40am nappy change, sitting and reading, tummy time struggling to crawl, standing in her activity station
E8.15-8.30am solids (this week only pumpkin in the morning and nothing else all day)
A8.30-9.30am usually lies on playmat while I shower etc
S9.30am-11.30am give her paci, hold her upright against me until she falls asleep, put her in cot and she sleeps really well
E11.30am BF
A11.40am we are usually out going to a friend's house, mother's group etc.
S1.30pm-3pm
E3.30pm BF
A3.40 nappy change, plays in cot trying to crawl, then we go outside to do washing, check garden, then some sitting time looking at her books
S5.30-6pm
7-7.30pm change nappy, put on pj's, shower most days and try to put her to sleep
8.30pm she wakes up happy and wanting to be awake and playing
8.30-10pm struggling to get her to sleep, her screaming whenever we put her down
10pm-10.30pm let her sit in our bed playing with her books (she only stops crying when she sees her books at the moment!)
10.30pm 'dream feed' while she is wide awake, hold her till she falls asleep and hope that she stays in her cot
3-4am she wakes up (has been for the past month), talks, cries, then screams, paci doesn't help, usually ends in me feeding her after she kicks and struggles with her dad and is frantic. She drinks both sides then falls asleep and cries if we put her in her cot.
We started solids at 5 months with rice cereal but went pretty quickly and gave her a new food every two days. She is pretty gassy at night which upset her. Apart from that though, she is perfect during the day. never cries, always laughing and smiling.
I feel guilty that during the day I am cleaning up, doing my own thing and then hoping that she will sleep through so that I can have a good night's sleep. I also feel like I shouldn't be complaining since we had an angel baby until now!
Is it normal for her to be screaming and hyperventilating with PU/PD? She gets so worked up that it takes half an hour to calm her only to put her down and have it start all over.
I never rock or sway her to bed and if she kicks i change her position or put her down. I have read Tracy's book so many times but in practice I can't seem to get it to work. It would be ok if there were times when she did self settle to give me a bit of motivation to continue but at the moment i feel like i'm doing something wrong.