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So we did Ferber with my baby at 4 months because of sleep regression. Since then her sleep still wasn’t great but she was only waking 2-4 times a night. Now she is 8 and a half months waking every 1-3 hours with more like 5-6 wakeups per night. She is napping well but screams bloody murder the majority of times she goes down to sleep. She is mostly crying for wanting me (she literally crawls to the side near the door and literally sticks her arm out).

She usually falls asleep before it is check in time, but even for check ins she escalates then usually falls asleep a bit after screaming more.

She is dealing with teething (not currently in pain but is still teething), separation anxiety and learning to stand.

Our attempted schedule is 7pm bedtime, 6:30 wake-up, 9am, 2pm naps. So theoretically 2.5/3/3.5 ish but her naps are not consistent. Sometimes she sleeps for 45 minutes, sometimes 2 hours. So some wake windows could be 4 hours, but none less than 2.5 hours.

My big question is will she ever stop screaming bloody murder? Cause she does like 80% of the time being put to sleep (which now is like 8 times a day) and I am really hating feeling like a monster all day every day.

Baby girl is about 8.5 months. Sleep hasn’t been good since 3.5 months. We did Ferber and she CAN fall asleep independently but also won’t like half the time. Normal for her is waking 3-4 times a night. But now she is teething, having massive separation anxiety and just started standing on her own. She is up every 1-2 hrs. I feel like death. My physical health is suffering. I try Ferber but I don’t know when she is in actual pain and honestly breastfeeding gets her back (and me) back to sleep faster. Husband basically doesn’t help, unless I wake him and ask him to change her or get Tylenol (which doesn’t seem to help) and gets annoyed when I let her cry.