Rubys mummy
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I cant believe I am posting this-we have been sooooooooooo lucky ith Rubys sleep so far. She was in a routine from day one in her on cot etc and slept through from 7 weeks 7.30pm-7am.
The past few months she has been waking in the night every couple of nights but the last 6 weeks have been dreadful. It started with her scarlet fever, 2 weeks of sleepless nights, and then a week on holiday she was a bit unsettled as she was in a travel cot in our room so woke every night. the past few weeks since we got back, we have had 2 nights where she has slept until 5am but the other nights its 3 or 4 times she cries.
I usually settle her with milk or calpol (she is cutting a back tooth) but its exhausting now. I work full time and I am finding it hard to concentrate during the day. OH gets up with me bu she wont settle for him, she wants me so I have to settle her which means 15 or so minutes at a time.
She loves her sleep, and did na 2 hours in morning, and 1-2 hours in afternoon but we have droped her afternoon nap now which doesnt help. She doesnt nap at all in nursery wednesday and fridays but that doesnt help-she still wakes......
OH and I are bickering constantly-we are both knackered and confused why things have changed so much.
Feel bad moaning as we have been lucky until now but I cant help feel it something I am doing wrong
Should we try controlled crying???
The past few months she has been waking in the night every couple of nights but the last 6 weeks have been dreadful. It started with her scarlet fever, 2 weeks of sleepless nights, and then a week on holiday she was a bit unsettled as she was in a travel cot in our room so woke every night. the past few weeks since we got back, we have had 2 nights where she has slept until 5am but the other nights its 3 or 4 times she cries.
I usually settle her with milk or calpol (she is cutting a back tooth) but its exhausting now. I work full time and I am finding it hard to concentrate during the day. OH gets up with me bu she wont settle for him, she wants me so I have to settle her which means 15 or so minutes at a time.
She loves her sleep, and did na 2 hours in morning, and 1-2 hours in afternoon but we have droped her afternoon nap now which doesnt help. She doesnt nap at all in nursery wednesday and fridays but that doesnt help-she still wakes......
OH and I are bickering constantly-we are both knackered and confused why things have changed so much.
Feel bad moaning as we have been lucky until now but I cant help feel it something I am doing wrong
Should we try controlled crying???
) picked up on the fact if he cried he would get attention and he liked it- so he carried on trying it- i know its hard to hear them crying but i had to re-teach him that he doesnt get his own way by crying- obviously its a different case if there is something wrong/shes in pain..but you know best..i mean i can usually figure out from his cry or just by peeking in his room if there is actually something up or if hes just playing me!!
He has always been up really early in the morning but now he also wakes up between 12 and 2 and can be crying anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours. I was giving him milk but that's stopped working so now we do controlled crying which isn't working that well. It worked great on Aimee who woke every night but Nathan only wakes probably 2-3 times a week so its not working. Nathans cutting his back teeth too, maybe there's a connection 
