as u may or may not know, my husband and i do foster care and we have an almost 4 year old boy who has more then likely been through alot in his short 4 years of life....but we are really battling with his sleep and behaviour atm, its really tough on the rest of the children aswell and my dh and i.

he has slept a tiny 2 hrs in 24 hrs he finally went to bed at 10 pm, Dh was up till 3am with him and wen he came to bed i was up with him, at 5:30am he finally went to sleep just to wake again at 7:10am the thing is when he wake he wakes screaming and yelling that he cant see (despite the light on), that he cant hear the music (its on loud enough to hear in the kitchen) he wakes cause hes scared of the rain or the wind or the thunder, he wakes cause he just wants us, he wakes for many many reasons every night. we have tried everything from redirecting him to bed, to not saying anything, to keeping up later at night, etc. we have now gone to seeking professional help so we are seeing a peadatrician (sp?) and he has prescribed a medication to help his behaviour, im not usually for medication but after 5 mths im ready to try anything for the 1st week there was a massive change he was sleeping his behaviour was not as aggressive, he displayed less violence was able to reason etc etc
but here we are this week 4 weeks on and only just getting 2 hrs sleep at night.

we are also booked in for our 1st play therepy session on tuesday hopefully this will help work through some previous issues and hopefully we will all get some sleep.


not sure what i want from this post perhaps was just a vent, maybe some advice dunno really
we are exhauseted and at our wits end, on one hand we really want to stick this out ( just got a 2year order to remain in care) but on the other hand hes affecting the entire household and we are all sleep deprived. i just dont know what to do.

if you have made it this far thanks for reading