I’m stuck on what to do here, so I’m needing advice from those who have maybe been through something similar. My baby is and always has been a bad sleeper, she also only contact naps, and nurses to sleep unless dad puts her down. However, for the past 2-3 weeks, she will not nurse to sleep for bedtime anymore, but she will for naps. She nurses, then wants to go play. I’ve tried stopping and then trying again in 20 or so minutes, doesn’t work, I’ve tried putting her down on the couch, sometimes works but she fights it hard, so I’ve been giving her to dad and she sometimes fights it but usually gives in pretty fast. Right now her “schedule” is sometimes two naps sometimes one nap, usually two, 3/3.5-4/4-4.5. Wake at 6-6:30 am and bedtime 7:30-8. Naps usually hour each. She gets tired by 3 hours and doesn’t fight her first nap but she fights the second one. And on the days she does one nap she usually goes down after 4 hours and sleeps from 10:30-12:30 so I try to put her down around 7 and she still doesn’t nurse to sleep even though she’s tired
Here’s where I’m struggling (if you’re still reading I appreciate you and your time)
She still wakes up and comfort nurses ALL night long. If I even leave the room for a second she screeaaaamms. She barely even lets me unlatch in the middle of the night. We don’t fully co sleep but we do like “chunks” of co sleep sometimes. I usually put her down, put her in the crib, then move back when she wakes up and repeat the process. Sometimes she gets to stay in bed if I’m too tired. Crib is still in parents room
Do I move her rooms? Is this her starting to self wean? Maybe a phase and she will start to go back to nursing to sleep? Maybe she needs to be fully on one nap schedule?