PLEASE help 😠How do I get my daughter to sleep.
This is long and I want to go ahead and take full responsibility for the monster I have created. My daughter is 7 months old and I’m done. Im so ready to have my bed back at night, I would love to be able to have time to myself during her naps to get things done. I don’t want to spend half of my days trying to get her to sleep. I’m also taking a trip in two weeks and I would love to stay up and socialize with my friends and family and not spend all night fighting my daughter trying to get her to sleep/ laying alone with her all night.
So at 6 weeks we started bedsharing. It was what was right for my family (at the time), I was breastfeeding and unintentionally bedsharing and knew it’d be safer to go to sleep knowing she was in bed with me. I also was on maternity leave for 12 weeks and I held my daughter for 99% of her naps. I just wanted to soak in every moment I had, and even after I went back to work being away for 50+ hours a week I would hold her on my days off or lay down with her for naps. I had tried a couple times to put her in her pack n play but she just didn’t like it and would wake after 30 minutes and honestly I was too tired to play that game. My mom watched her most of the time when I was at work and could occasionally get her to nap in a swing and same went for my fiancé when her kept her. We had always planned at 6 months she would go in her crib, still planning on room sharing because I’m still uncomfortable with her being away from me all night in another room. So we recently moved right around when she turned 6 months, it just so happened the time changed the same weekend we moved. This has been my breaking point. We are now getting NO sleep. Her naps are whack she went from going to sleep around 8 to staying up until 11 or MIDNIGHT. But she still wakes up 8/9 in the morning. I have her crib ready for her to go in but I just can’t even get her sleepy enough or asleep to put her into it. It takes almost two hours after she shows signs of being sleepy for her to go to sleep. For example 10:30/11 AM is pretty consistent for when she starts acting drowsy. We will nurse, rock, sing, I’ll even lay down with her in desperation, and she will take until 12/12:30 to actually fall asleep. I work part time now and I have things I need to do on my days off and can’t take the 2+ hours 2x a day to get her to sleep + not being able to move or leave her for 1-2 hours because she’s on the bed alone. And after two hours of fighting I’m too scared to move her and wake her up. I’m finding myself frustrated and anxious because most of my days are gone just to trying to get her to sleep. We are not in a mental leap, she isn’t teething, we’ve been moved for two weeks now. I just don’t know what to do. I can’t do the CIO method. I just don’t know how to start or if it will ever work. Any advice is much appreciated. This mama needs some help. She’s such an amazing baby but she just doesn’t want to sleep 😩

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