Hi all. I dont know where else to turn.
Hello everybody. Hope you don't mind me posting here but I'm fully at my wits end.
We have a soon to be ten month old girl and she's really dependent on us. Using AI I managed to break the midnight / 2 am wake ups by using the 3/3/4 method and this worked a dream for about a fortnight. But since then our little girl has decided to keep waking up at the end of her 45 minutes cycle, and this has been going on for just short of two weeks. She will scream and scream until we go in (I usually try and give her about 15 minutes to self soothe) and then when we go in she'll just scream until picked up. When we do this she will then lie awake on us for 2+ hours. It's as if she's fully dependent on us being there when she is breaking out of the first cycle. Since we've felt we have had no choice but to bring her down and calm her with lullabies I'm almost certain we have accidentally trained her that this is the normal thing and that's now why it's happening.
Our lad (now four and half) slept through from six weeks old so this is all completely new to us, and I'm starting to lose the will with her if I'm honest. Genuinely, I don't look forward to nighttime any more. If we could crack the code of getting her down at night I feel we could achieve so much more than sitting around watching the same lullabies over and over.
I apologise sincerely. I didn't mean to vent and create a text well. But what can I do?!