Hi girls, my lo is 6.5 months and we have battled settling for naps and short naps everyday until about a month ago when she finally started to show some cues. We are watching her like a hawk and still some day she is almost impossible to read. In a previous topic we looked at her routine and wind downs and all seemed reasonable.
I have had a day where I seemed to miss it for both naps. I generally pat in the first instance if she starts to get upset immediately I put her in her cot and sometimes this works. (if I leave the room if she is quiet initially often she is crying about 15-30 mins later and keeps escalating) If she is just grizzling obviously I leave her.
The general upset and not wanting to sleep we are managing but it is the days like today when both sleeps don't work. She just gets more and more upset until she is screaming and coughing etc. If I bring her out of the room (which I don't but have on occasions in the past) she will stop immediately (although will be sobbing) so I stay and keep going. She will be in my arms looking at the crack in the door which will have a sliver of light. I know that Tracey says not to hold them if they are fighting but she is much worse in the cot. At least if I can hold her until she stops then do PUPD. I have been doing PUPD but she is so upset that it usually takes about 30-40 mins to get her to stop crying to start PUPD and then about 20 of PUPD. It's not happening each sleep so its not that she is would get better each time and we could keep going. It seems to happen on the occasions when I can't read her or if we have to go out and she gets distracted by something (anything LOL) BTW her settling at night is generally great. I do feed and then to bed but she is mostly awake. (It's not that she is feeding to sleep as from previous experience she wouldn't feed to sleep during the day anyway)
Does anyone have any thoughts? I would appreciate it.
