Help. LO is 8 weeks old and In the middle of a wonder week. I'm writing this after being up from 2:16-until now about every 15-30 minutes. This is after fighting with LO all day about naps and going to sleep. She is a stubborn one and fights sleeps. Once she falls asleep, she wakes back up very easily. Either she will pop open her eyes or she moves her head back and forth on your shoulder, quite violently it seems, and that sometimes wakes her up.

Yesterday she got up around 7:50 am. She nursed and fell back asleep by 9:40. She slept in the swing, which was a little different for us. She slept off and on until 11:30. She woke up, nursed, and then everything went to the dogs at this point. DH said he would take her. Well, he doesn't really do anything actively to make her fall asleep or help her fall asleep. When he does, it's too late and she is too tired. Well, she fell asleep and we put her down and she woke up 10 minutes later. LO didn't go back to sleep until 4:40 and only slept until 5;40. We then tried to fall asleep from 6:40 and fell asleep around 8. We woke back up aroun 9:30, took a bath, did our 'routine' and tried to fall asleep again. This took until 10:15, but she fell asleep in my arms only to wake herself back up. We got her down around 11:30 and I fell asleep in the chair, with her in my arms, (awful I know!) until 12:53 am. DH woke us up and we came to bed. We laid her in her pnp and he woke up and started fussy a little. Since she wasn't crying, I didn't get her up. She fussed and dozed until 2:50 am. Then we put her down at 3:10 after nursing snd were up again at 3:45. Then I gave her a PACi and that worked until she would spit it out. I finally got her around 4:45, tried to nurse her, and now she is currently asleep in my arms, on my shoulder.

How do I fix this? What can I do to help it? I'm losing my mind. She used to be an okay sleeper, she is hard to put down because she fights it. And when I nurse her the last couple of days, any time after the morning she will pull off a little bit and cry. Or she will be crying because she wants to nurse, the boob is in her mouth and she will be crying so hard because she hasn't noticed it yet. She has never had a problem with nursing since my milk came in and the engorgement was gone.

I know she is tired, I see her cues and can tell by her cry, but he fights it so much it takes forever and she is exhausted by the time we are done, which seems to give her more energy. CIO isn't an option with us.

I go back to work in 4 weeks. I cannot do this at night and work during the day. I solo parent at night a lot because of dh's job so I would like to have this somewhat figured out before I go back.