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She doesn't want to sleep ...

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Latest post on 20 June 2011 - 21:20

Or just can't!!! i don't know what's up with my little girl. she is 5 months 2 weeks,for the last couple of days she didn't go to sleep not real sleep. she seems so sleepy. i breastfeed her, sooth her or whatever it takes, she sleeps for like 10 minutes and wakes up again!!!! she has been teething since she was 3 months old but never had a sleeping issue.even at night she sleeps for an hour wakes up ... eats play and sleeps for another hour till the morning and then never sleep all day long!!!! do you think i should go to check a doctor!!! she is healthy not crying "more than usual" I don't know what to do!!! what do you think this is about!!!

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Latest post on 21 June 2011 - 10:26
If you chart her sleeping habits, you'll see how much she's really sleeping and then see what she's doing before she sleeps, so you can work out if you're missing her 'I'm shattered and need to sleep' cues. If you miss them and she gets overtired, she might sleep less because she's so overtired she's incapable of proper sleep. Does that make sense? Following advice from my Mum, I was letting DS stay up and play until he was grumpy and irritable, not realising that the grumpy and irritable stage was due to him being completely overtired. She always said it was a shame to put him to bed when he was having fun! But in fact it was a shame to keep him up beyond the point where he would be able to get himself to sleep calmly and happily.
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Latest post on 21 June 2011 - 10:09
I didn't try that. but it seems a good idea, although i don't know how tracking her sleeping minutes will help, but at least i will have an idea of what's happening.... Thanks :)
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Latest post on 21 June 2011 - 10:09
I didn't try that. but it seems a good idea, although i don't know how tracking her sleeping minutes will help, but at least i will have an idea of what's happening.... Thanks :)
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Latest post on 21 June 2011 - 08:55
what do you do when she wakes up at night? Whatever you do, don't turn on the light or engage with her (beyond a few murmured words as you feed her)... Anyhow, one sign of being overtired is actually sleeping less, but I'd say that, whilst all babies are different, 6 hours at night and nothing during the day at 5.5 months is a bit light! Have you tried actually charting all her sleep, plotting it on a timetable over the course of a week so you can identify any patterns? I did this with block colours (green for happy and awake, red for grumpy, blue for sleeping, purple for feeding) and coloured in 15 minute blocks as the day went by.
 
 

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