Hi!
I have a post in the nap section but could really need some advice on general sleep too.
We are struggling getting our LG to sleep:( and also find it impossible to teach her to self soothe and settle.
She is almost 3 months is a very happy content little girl.
But for naps she has started really crying:( we have about 1h30 awake time. And follow her cues.
For most naps we take her out in the pram .. and as soon as we put her in the pram she cries
then settles when we get out the door.
If the weather is too bad.. she naps inside in her pram. But will wake up after 30 mins and even if I rock the pram she won’t fall back.
Sometimes we rock her in our arms and she still cries and wakes up after 30 mins. She seems to just want to look at everything so we take her into a darker room and she gets very cross!
Self soothing and sssh patting is very difficult. I managed the other day to put her down awake but she wouldn’t settle with the sssh pat, just cried:( so I picked her up and calmed her and put her down again and it worked.. I sat with her and put my hand on her .. she woke after 10 mins! I continued but she just doesn’t settle! So I ended up rocking her and she fell asleep.
At bedtime it’s the same. Around 17:30 she starts to get cranky and she lets us know it’s time for bed. So we take her into my toddlers room, dim the lights , put some soft music on , I give her a bottle then get her in her pjs, little wash and massage and often finish the bottle. I then turn the lights out and cuddle her and rock her until she falls asleep. And then I have to hold her for an hour because the first hour is very unsettled. After 30 mins she transitions and fusses a bit. Then when we are sure she is sleeping deeply she goes into her sleepy head between hubby and I on the sofa. And she sleeps really well. We give her a dream feed at 10:30 and she wakes between 1 and 3:30 depending on how much she drinks at the dream feed. And she then sleeps until 6 or 7.
I tried the other day to put her down in her bed. Awake but drowsy .. she wasn’t at all happy .. so I rocked her to sleep and after 30 mins put her down, she woke up ..we left her as she was babbling and happy but then after about 20 mins she started crying so I tried the sssh pat .. but it didn’t work
she got too upset. So it ended up rocking her and holding her for an hour again.
I really need some help on how to get her relaxed for sleep and to help her self soothe.
Thanks!