Any feedback on QE2?

[meatpopsicle]

Hi,

My 10 week old daughter has decided she no longer wants to nap during the day. I've tried feeding and rocking her to sleep and she wakes up in 15 minutes and I can't resettle her. I use a white noise recording (which when she does sleep, seems to help keep her asleep, but doesn't help her GET to sleep iykwim). I've tried putting her down awake and shooshing/patting/singing/humming/doing a freaking tap dance and she just cries, and her cries escalate until the moment I pick her up. I'm pretty sure it's not reflux or any other medical condition because she only cries when I put her down in the bassinet for her day sleeps and stops the second I pick her up, but she's happy to lie on her back on the play mat or in her cot (she doesn't sleep in the cot) and she's fine with sleeping in the bassinet at night. And she's generally a pretty happy baby - she just WON'T SLEEP during the day and I know she needs it!

I'm at my wits' end. I just tried resettling her for over an hour (and that was a short effort) and nothing is working. I don't know what to do!!! So I'm thinking about going to the QE2 sleep school. Has anyone used it? Do they push CC/CIO, because I won't do that - or do they go for gentler methods?

Thanks in advance...

[duckduckgoose]

This is so common... My bub is the same so I don't really have advice BUT he will nap sometimes in his fisher price swing - seriously that swing is worth $5000 to me. Also I just got the no cry nap solution today and it seems to have good ideas.

How is night sleeps? And is she generally cheerful during the day?

No idea about sleep school sorry.

[meatpopsicle]

Hi Jezzamiff, thanks for your reply. I've been reading no cry nap solution and have taken some ideas from that. I've also been settling her with a dummy the last couple of days, which is working most of the time. I think the main thing is I'm trying not to stress out about it and that's made DD more relaxed:)

We do have a swing but she won't stay in it long enough to sleep, unfortunately. She'll sleep in the car or pram quite easily though.

She is a generally happy little soul, though she definitely gets crankier when she hasn't had enough sleep. And her night sleeps are pretty good - usually 8-9 hours with one feed in the middle. She almost never needs resettling after the night time feed either, just takes herself happily off to sleep within a few minutes.

[duckduckgoose]

She sounds so much like my 14 week old - I figure if it's this common then it can't really be harming them that much to not nap.

Have you tried putting her in the pram for a nap and then rocking her through the sleep cycle? Doesn't work for my little man but you might have more luck. Anyway hopefully things improve around the 6 month mark when they get more active.

So long as she is generally cheerful then I wouldn't worry about it - although like me you're probably craving more than 2 x 40 mins per day to get stuff done!