So many issues - so many night walkings

[shimzy]

So where do I start - first of all I booboo'd really big time. Stacy gave great great advice - but I didn't listen and I fell back on props. 

SO here's the issue:

5mnths 1 wk old,, weighs 16lbs

Popped 2 bottom teeth in the last week

Awake time is 2hrs 10mins (falls asleep within 1 minute)

Naps vary from 1 hr to 2 hrs (depending on teething or developmental milestones) She does not wake from her naps for her soother.  For the last two weeks she has been taking 1.5 hour naps maximum.

Developmental milestones that happened in the last 2 wks -> sitting up, rolling both ways, discovered she can laugh and make people laugh. She starts blowing her lips (like when boys drive their cars around the floor and make that phbbmmmmmmmmm noise? lol..  )

Food - She is on 4 bottles a day - varies from 4-6oz per bottle. No solids as yet.

3-5am (time varies) bottle - varies from 2 - 6oz

She uses a soother (we gave it back after weaning because she was still crying for it 3 wks later)

She is swaddled. She breaks free from the swaddle and rips her soother out then gets into a laughing frenzy in the middle of the night (which by the way is not so funny to us). She will go back to sleep almost immediately after being reswaddled and given her soother.

Her typical schedule is something like this:
6:50- 7am - wake up and bottle
9-9:10am - i lay her down for nap - sleeping within a minute
the nap lasts from 1.5 hoursish to 2 hours
11am - bottle
12:40-1pm - lay down for nap
naps anywhere from 2-3 (depending on when laid down)
3pm - bottle
5pmISH - cat nap 45minutesISH
in bed by 7pm
she usually wakes by 9pm, we give her the soother, she falls back to sleep.
she wakes again by 11pm - give soother, back to sleep.
she wakes at 2:30ish - i feed her, give back soother, off to sleep.
wakes from 5-7am, again giving her soother, off to sleep.
7am - wakes up

IM SO EXHAUSTED. I know the soother and the swaddle are a problem. I don't know how to use PUPD. Why was she still crying for her soother after 3 wks? Could I have misintrepreted it??

Where do I start. 

[Lana]

Are you using the aussie swaddle?

[shimzy]

No I use two different blankets to swaddle her. One holds her in real good and the other one is for warmth. She doesnt get overly hot, I've checked her.

The thing is, I really want to get rid of the swaddle. My husband, no matter how hard he tries, cant get it right and I'm tired of being the only one, able to put her to bed or to help her in the middle of the night when she breaks through her swaddle.

When she breaks through her swaddle, she rips her soother out. Its a bloody nightmare 

I tried weaning the soother once, but she was still crying for it 3 wks later. Maybe I misread that one, but we gave her back the soother 

For instance, tonight, we went to break her from the swaddle. She went to sleep like a gem and woke 1 hour later fussing. (I was at the gym, dh was home to deal with this). He picked her up, soothed her, laid her back down. This went on for 30 mins and she was still screaming her head off looking for ME. YES ME. As soon as I came home, she lunged towards me, I took her and she was immediately quiet. I reswaddled her, gave her her soother, and she went to sleep and its been 1.5 hours and not a peep out of her since.

I'm at my wits end. I dont know what to do. Im exhausted, tired, cranky. I cant keep up with my daily life because I want to catch up on lost sleep