Phi all,
I'm in serious need of help and support. My dd is 6.5 months old. The last two months her sleeping has gone down hill and continues to get worse. It's gotten to the point I don't know what to try and I'm exhausted. She was previously on a 4 hour easy routine, she settled herself to sleep and woke once or twice in the night.
Now she really has no day routine. I put her down for her first nap after two hours and she wakes after 30 mins (have tried a time of anywhere from 1.5 - 3 hours but she always wakes after 30 min)" have tried to resettle her, and wake to sleep technique but nothing gets her back to sleep. So I get her up, then she's tired and grumpy after an hour or less so she has to go to bed, then it's another 30 min sleep, this cycle continues all day until 6pm where she is so tired and screaming she goes to bed for the night, then after a few hours starts waking every two hours.
I'm really at a loss of how to fix this. The 30 min naps have been going for about 6 weeks now.
She eats three good meals a day. Breast feeds are a bit all over the place but I try to do four hourly.
She now crys every time I put her down, for a nap and I have to pat and soothe her to sleep.
How can I fix this? I'm so exhausted, have washing piling up and can't spend anytime with my other children as this one needs so much time and doesn't sleep.
Please help