Hi again,
I'm posting on a different topic as this is a separate issue and I have tried everything I can think of!
My baby has always been around people and from birth has been bottle fed (another issue for another time!) and the plus side of that is that Daddy and Nanny have been feeding her and putting her to sleep from day one. She is OK with Daddy and Nanny doing everything! Wake her up, change, bathe, play, change clothes, soothe her (so long as not in the cot), spend time, anything... Then all of a sudden about a month ago, Nanny tried to put her down for the 5pm catnap (which she had done loads of times before with no issue!) nap and it was as if the world had come to an end! After 15 minutes trying to sooth her Nanny gave up and brought her to me. No nap! Daddy then tried to put her for a nap a couple of days after that and the same thing happened!
We have tried several times for her to go down with the Nanny and Daddy and until I go into the room and take her and hold her for a couple of minutes or put my hand on the side of her face all she does is cry. And then I put her into the cot and all is fine, no tears, she sleeps. She even smiles at me when she sees me! She goes to sleep until she wakes up in a half hour (which is the my other post). We have tried several variations of the same nap time routine. Nanny goes in and I come in to soothe her, we both take her in together so that she can see me, Nanny starts the routine and I end it. A couple of times she has accepted being put down by the Nanny on her own but I think that is more fluke than actual acceptance. I'm going back to work soon and need to feel like my baby isn't going to cry every few hours to go to sleep and only sleep because she is so tired from crying. I know that the Nanny soothes her. I'm not talking about crying it out as I don't agree with that as a technique and even less with a baby this young. My baby cries in the Nanny's arms or being patted, she is always with someone.
Nap time routine is the same every time. We tell her we are going for "quiet time", change nappy, close curtains, put into grow bag. That is how it's always been and it's always worked. When I put her down she goes into the cot pretty much awake and settles herself down. But I need other people to be able to do the same and I need her to accept others helping.
Help?!
