Clingy

[Katie_baby_1]

Hey everyone, my baby's nearly 7 months now. She's always been good at sleeping through and going to sleep on her own. Over the past few days shes really changed and won't sleep in her cot at night....she wakes up every hour and starts crying, i sit her up to wind and she starts smiling as if she thinks i'm gonna put her in bed with me! I'm finding it really hard as i'm trying to keep her in her cot by comforting her but when it's happening every hour i'm getting really tired! She won't even have her nap without being held....it's just taken me an hour to get her to go down even though she was knackered!

I think it may be because we went away last week and she stayed in bed with me most of the time.
I was just wondering if it'll pass and if i'm doing the right thing?

Thanks x x x

 

[Serene123]

Depends what you want to do. If you want to do crying it out, then that's an idea. Some people can't do it though. I can't.

I've come to realise that there isn't really a right or wrong when it comes to parenting (with some exceptions of course,) and we have to do what works for us.

If you don't want to sleep with her then you need to stop doing it right away. I have a co-sleeper who has no intension of sleeping in her cot..

 

[Ema]

I agree there is no right or wrong way just what works for you.

Jacob was a co-sleeper, but the past 3 weeks ive just persisted and now he sleeps in his cot. But it was hard but if you persist you can do it. But thats only if you want to.

Hopefully she will get start getting back into sleeping in her cot soon XxxX

 

[xxleannexx]

if you want it stop then you prob have to use the cry it out method for a couple of nights until she realises that you are not going to keep going in to her. ive done it and its really hard but worth it as she now sleeps in her own cot all night very rarely waking up and if she does wake up now she has learnt to self soothe herself back to sleep. a week of no sleep has definately paid of in the long run. IMO its better to sort it out now rather than later as you kno she CAN sleep through if she wants, she is just playing up so dont let it get any worse.

 

[isil]

You could have written that about my LO at the moment. He settles himself perfectly at 6pm and sleeps like a dream up til midnight. Then it's every hr. I do end up giving in and put him in my bed but as long as it's not all night and it doesn't seem to be getting any earlier, I'm just going to keep doing it. He is ultra clingy at the moment too, I think maybe it's just an age thing. And also, I went away recently and we coslept. Maybe a mixture of their age and the fact that we have been letting them sleep in with us has combined? Hope you get it sorted, it's hard work, isn't it?!

 

[reallytinyamy]

my 7 month old has just become like this- I read somewhere that 7 months is often an age that babies become clingy- sorry, ~I cant recall why!!