Am I being alarmist? Is this a phase? Is this normal? PLEASE HELP MAMAS! My husband is ready to whip out medication to get dd to sleep and I'm being serious.
My dd is 8 months old. Within the past month alone she has been hitting developmental milestones like CRAZY. She started crawling, standing, trying to walk!, got 2 teeth with #3 on the way, figured out how to wave, says mama and dada discriminantly and there are more I'm sure.
Since this began, her sleep has deteriorated horribly. She has never been a great sleeper per se, she was still waking at least once or twice throughout the night before this began. Now, she doesn't nap except for maybe a couple 20 min spurts -she wants to play play play and when she wakes in the middle of the night she is AWAKE and wants to play then too.
We have a nice bedtime routine that works but it is the nightwaking that is really troublesome. It is so frequent and she is sooo wide awake, I don't know what to do. We have a cosleeper, she has her own crib - neither makes a difference. We have tried feeding when she wakes, not feeding when she wakes. Rocking. Not rocking. After a couple HOURS she eventually drops off. My dh and I both WOHM and we are zombies.
Does anyone has some advice?
TIA...
My dd is 8 months old. Within the past month alone she has been hitting developmental milestones like CRAZY. She started crawling, standing, trying to walk!, got 2 teeth with #3 on the way, figured out how to wave, says mama and dada discriminantly and there are more I'm sure.
Since this began, her sleep has deteriorated horribly. She has never been a great sleeper per se, she was still waking at least once or twice throughout the night before this began. Now, she doesn't nap except for maybe a couple 20 min spurts -she wants to play play play and when she wakes in the middle of the night she is AWAKE and wants to play then too.
We have a nice bedtime routine that works but it is the nightwaking that is really troublesome. It is so frequent and she is sooo wide awake, I don't know what to do. We have a cosleeper, she has her own crib - neither makes a difference. We have tried feeding when she wakes, not feeding when she wakes. Rocking. Not rocking. After a couple HOURS she eventually drops off. My dh and I both WOHM and we are zombies.
Does anyone has some advice?
TIA...


