8 month old daughter. Aargh. She used to sleep for an hour in the morning and an hour after lunch. Right now we are having constant battles to get a nap out of her.
She goes into the cot fine (smiling and rubbing her eyes) but starts babbling, which is followed by whinging, then all out war. This can go on all morning.
She started crawling about 3 weeks ago. This seemed to make her more tired, but only at bedtime. We had to bring her bedtime forward from 7.15 to 6.30-6.45.
I could really do with hearing some positive stories right now. Was your baby like this? Did it get better?
This whole thing is making me feel physically and emotionally exhausted. I can't relax because I spend all day either listening to whinging and crying or waiting for it to start again. I'm sometimes on my own with her all week when my husband works shifts at weekends (though he gets monday and tuesday off to recuperate, while I have to go to work - how ironic!). I love her dearly, but I have no energy to look after her when she's like this. FED UP!!
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mogwai · 12/03/2006 22:07
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