As hard as it is, just prsist with her playing! If you out her in your bed she will just keep doing it until she gets her way. These babies of ours are smarties!

How is she sleeping now?

how is it going now?

How have you gone with settling now?

So glad to hear she is a joy and a blessing

What did you end up doing?

How is she now?

Any advice below been of any help?

She is not getting a bit cold is she.

Glad she is a blessing and a pleasure to have

Thank you everyone for all the responses. Some good ideas. In answer to some of your questions. She is bottle fed and does self settle on many occasions. Her last feed differs but is usually around 5 or 6pm. Occasionally she will wake up for another feed but most times falls asleep in my arms while I feed her. She could be fast asleep but as soon as she touches gets put back in the cot her eyes flicker open. Her sheets are flannelette so I am assuming it is warm enough for her and she also has plenty of blankets. I try not to talk to her too much during the late night, early morning feed. She seems to be going through stages now though because since writing the letter to MOM her sleeping habits have changed again. She seems to settle so much better now when she goes to bed but later on wiggles around in her cot so much. (most nights totally out of the covers). She usually lands up at the top end of the cot and is extremely restless throughout the night. This morning she was on her tummy. At the moment because of the warmer weather she just has a flannelette fitted sheet and a doubled over flat sheet on the bed. She sleeps in a long sleeve baby romper. I guess I should just leave her to do her thing because she does not really cry or anything. Just lies there blowing raspberries and gurgling away. Ha ha. she is an absolute blessing though and a pleasure to have.

I can only say that the best thing for us was to just have our daughter in bed with us. I know it’s not something everyone wants to do, but think how wonderful the comfort and warmth of being in your arms is.

I had the same issue, I ended up getting a chair and sitting next to the cot just playing on my phone until she went to sleep, and then slowly weaned her if me being there. I think she just wanted to feel my presence.

Try hard to let her self-settle without your help or help from the dummy. It will pay off in the end.

if my son wouldn’t settle which I have to admit, was not very often, he is so good at self soothing himself, but I would get him up, put tv on for say 30mins or so, and noise, do my folding up, get stuff done even wash clothes etc, then I would try again and more often then not he would go straight to sleep.

I had the same problems with my son I found he was actually cold maybe try layering her up a little more

Everytime I had issues like this with my bubs..my darling mum used to say “It could be teeth”…used to drive me nuts…LOL
Just remember that even though it seems like a age when you are going through this in years to come you will look back a realise how quickly this time passed…cuddle your babies all they want while you can.

Yep. Lisa is right

My 6 month old did the same at about that age if u keep persevering with letting her settle herself in the cot it does payoff it took me a few nights but she is now happy to go off herself I would just walk in if she was upset avoid eye contact put her dummy in then walk back out and she would go off and now being six months she has just this week started putting her dummy back in her mouth and then nodding back off this is,my no 3 and I promise u it won’t last forever just decide what approach u are going to take and stick to it as bubbas can get confused also

Does your bub know how to self settle (as in put her to bed awake & she drifts off to sleep unaided)? If not then this will play a big part. Once a baby knows how to self settle they learn to resettle if they wale between sleep cycles. I don’t think it is ‘training your baby to sleep’ it is a pretty important life skill to learn how to get yourself to sleep! So long as you can distinguish a distressed cry from a protest then there is no harm done. My baby has been sleeping 12+ hours straight from 11 weeks old when we taught him to self settle, he is now 10 months old. Good luck