Feel free to scold me, Im am furious at myself.
We are away on a road trip.Its what we do every year, visit friends and family and go camping.
(This year we decided to skip the camping.)
So what happened was, while visiting a friend I put her to sleep. She was falling asleep so I left and went about the rest of the night. With the TV on, I didnt heard her when she started to cry. It might have been for a minute, or it might have been for 30 minutes (gulp). When I check on her she was clearly upset.
So I moved the PnP in the living room and slept there with her, she was falling asleep in my arms but was drowsy when I (forced myself to) put her down. Her night went on as usual. She nw for a feed, wu at 6 then feed and sleep until 8.
Now every nap and bt are a mess. She is T or OT but doesnt want to sleep.
But I cant be sure if its bc of that.
As I said, we are on a road trip, and while my family understand what Im trying to do with her routine and are very helpful. But DH`s family is another story. Lets just say that at one point I had to leave for a walk in tears. Once I left V to sleep at BT, she was doing her mantra "cry" when all of a sudden dh`s cousin comes out with V in her hands saying she cant leave a baby to cry. Aghh.
At the same time, as much as I tried to have her on her routine, it was a mess. She was falling asleep in the car, she was woke up but ppl at all hours of the day and night, so one day her BT was 10!
Today she vent down easy for her 2 naps but for the first one I took her to the store with me (walking her around helped while we visited dh`s family) and for the second one we took a car ride to visit more of dh`s family and she got drowsy on the way back.
BT was chaos. My sister put her down bc I have a huge headache, it took a while for her to settle. My sister finally did shhhhh and sang a song put her down and she was done for the night.
So Im guessing it all added up to this. What do I do now? Can I hope that things will get back on track when we go back? (I cant do pu/pd,she hates patting if I do pat/shh...) Im trying to answer to every cry, some times being there even before she wakes so that she knows Im there...
I feel so sorry for my little smurf, she had such a hard time even with out it.
So tell me, what can I do to mend this? For my little one to be sure that mommy is and always will be there?