HELP!!!!!!
Ladies,
My DD is 7 months today ......... she has never been one of the babies who you can 'put down awake' .... Somehow I have managed with walking her, pacifier, feeding her, stroller .... different things worked during different phases. There was a brief time she could put herself to sleep by sucking her thumb/fingers but she stopped that and she refuses the pacifier now so I have basically been nursing her to sleep. I went through a nightmare phase between 3.5-5 months where she would wake several times a night. Anyway I did CIO (which is totally against my principles as a Mother but I didnt know what else to do).
Long story short - her sleep at night is much improved and she goes to sleep after drinking a bottle of milk. If she wakes up and is just moaning then I ignore her and she goes back to sleep within a few minutes so she CAN go to sleep herself.
I have a nanny - my nanny has started doing most of the naps unless she needs to be fed and she goes to sleep VERY easily with the nanny ie. a book then a bit of patting then she's asleep - no problem. It is FIRDAY - I have to deal with naps and she WILL NOT sleep for me no matter what I try (but I am not feeding her as that is what she wants). What the **** do I do????? My own DD will not nap with me ??????
Even if I am lying with her in the bed she just cries and cries and cries and the second I remove her from the room she is totally fine so there is nothing bothering her. I know if I fed her she'd be asleep in a second.
My husband is also trying now and she is screaming ****** murder!!!
I feel such a failure .......... Do I give in and feed her every time or what??? I am at a total loss.
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