My baby was never a good sleeper as of the 4 month sleep regression. It was at that point that we decided to cosleep because we all just needed sleep. It was working well until recently. I feel like we just disturb each others sleep. I wake her when I move and vice versa. I know that I am not getting anywhere close to the sleepy body needs and I do not believe she is either.
I am now 2 weeks into trying to transition her into sleeping in her crib and NOTHING is working. I have to let her fall asleep on me, wait 20 minutes until she is in deep sleep then very carefully transfer. Usually she wakes up 30 mins to an hour later, what I can assume is one sleep cycle. She does this all night, no longer stretches other than the first night of the transition which she gave me only 3 wake ups and a lot of false hope. I slept with a mattress on the floor right beside her crib.
I have her doing daytime naps in her crib too and they are about 37 minutes. If I give her a contact nap we can stretch a nap to easily 1.5h. However I am just not capable of sitting with her for every nap.
Because of her short naps we are still doing 4 naps a day. Wake up 7.00, nap 1- 9, nap 2- 11.30, nap 3 2.30 nap 4-5, bedtime 8pm. I don’t want to push bedtime any earlier as my husband finishes work late and needs to spend a bit of time with her.
I’m at my wits end and exhausted, I don’t know what to do. I have tried drowsy but awake and just can’t make it work. As soon as she hits the crib it’s back to wide awake. I need help. Open to any suggestions. I think I’d be able to handle a bit of crying but don’t know how I would feel about full on hysteria.