Helppp—7 month old cries every hour all night long
We cosleep out of survival and have since the 4 month sleep regression.
We use an Owlet for peace of mind (please don’t share any negative opinions about the Owlet—it has been helpful and useful for us).
Baby is breastfed. She started crawling and sitting up on her own at 6 months. Got her two bottom front teeth at four months.
She has three naps a day for a total of about 1.5-2 hours. Even with these never-ending night wake ups, she’s still cumulatively getting 11-12 hours of sleep a night.
She goes to bed between 6-6:30 pm. I nurse her to sleep in our floor bed and then leave to hang out with my husband. She usually sleeps fine from 6-6:30-8:30 pm. I do my last pump at 8:30 and she starts waking around this time (I pump and breastfeed because I work full time).
I join her in bed at 9:00 pm.
We’ve gone through regressions for sure, especially as she mastered crawling. But we’re past that now, and she still starts screaming crying every 45 min-hour all. night. long.
She’s not even awake, though. But if I don’t nurse her right then, she’ll fully wake herself up and start crawling all over the bed and not go back to sleep for 2 hours (a full wake window).
What is happening and when will it end? I’m so exhausted. She does this whether she’s in bed with me or not. I just keep her in the bed so she’s close and I can just pop the boob in but it’s so hard to go back to sleep 10+ times after being jilted awake by a screaming crying baby. My nervous system is fried beyond relief. I “sleep” from 9-6am, but only get 5-6 hours a night.
It’s misery. I’m so tired and irritable. I don’t know why she’s crying in her sleep constantly nor how to make it stop 😭😭😭😭
Any advice? Thank you ❤️