Hi all, I posted in general advice last week and have now also read Tracy's book "baby whisperer solves all your problems" but I'm still needing advice as I'm sure I'm still going wrong.
LO is 5 months old and we've been having problems with short naps, frequent nw and early wake ups all unfortunetly through to accidental parenting. LO had/has quite severe silent reflux which now seems to be well controlled with medication. But this meant that she was held from day one and rocked to sleep and now I'm stuck trying to fix the problems we created.
The last 2 nights she's wakened at 1.30 one night then 3.30 the next and self settled within a short time.
At 5 months should I still be using ssh/pat at EW, NW if needed and to extend naps? Do I use PU/PD as well now?
How do I reduce the amount of time I need to ssh/pat?
For example this morning she woke at 4am, talked to herself a bit then became upset so I tried ssh/pat from about 4.30. It took 20 minutes until she was calm and settled with eyes shut, I continued for 5 minutes then stopped. She woke up! I started ssh/pat again and she resettled, I stopped, she woke up again. This went on for almost an hour and by then I was exhausted so just lifted her beside me where she immediately settled and slept until 7am.
I have accidentally got rid of the dummy in the last two days as she's been badly teething a and wouldn't let it near her mouth, even before then she wouldn't hold it in herself. Not sure if this is a good thing or not as it did settle her but I couldn't rely on it to help her sleep independently as she needed me to hold it in.
Sigh it's all just becoming a bit much so any advice would be good. Thanks.
Leigh