I'm desperate. I need sleep.
I'm so run dowm atm all my glands are swollen & sore. I'm getting headaches behind my eyes. So tired.
Main problem is DS. I've recently started sending the girls to bed at 7. By 8 they are usually both well & truly asleep. (DD2 most of the time)
But DS insiste on holding out til about 10pm to finally go to sleep. The last 4 nights have been with us laying in bed for 2 - 3 hours...
Last night he was down by 8.15, but thats coz he had panadol first, being a bit sick. Back to 10 tonight.
Usually after he goes down I'll have a coffee & shower then head to bed, but its just too late! Then they are all up around 7am. (DD's earlier, but me & DS about 7).
DH isn't here. I could easiy leave DS with him while I have my shower, or even go to bed, if he was here, but he's not. I wouldn't be so dead on my feet.
All the other things stresssing me are dealt with, so I'm hoping it gets better, but now both the little ones are sick... Not sure if I'm just way too tired, or getting sick too..
After DS goes to bed is my alone time. This is it & I'm too tired to enjoy it. That 30 minutes or so is all I get & have had for months.
I want to take it easy over the weekend, but don't want the kids to miss out on any of the long weekend stuff if they are healthy enough. As soon as I get home tomorrow I'm doing nothing!
Would you give your toddler a dose of panadol every night for a few nights to try to change their routine? I don't see any other way around it, but can't see much out my tired sore eyes.
He'll look tired & start drifting off, then he's up jumping around again!
Umm no I probably wouldn't give panadol - but something has to be done!! What about some natural stuff like rescue remedy or something?
How many day naps is he having? Maybe he's having too much sleep - I know if Miss M has more than 2 hours sleep in the day time (and she's only having one nap now) then she'll be up till 8.30.
So sometimes she falls asleep on her bottle that we give her at 6.45 - thats when DS goes to bed too - but if she doesn't, she goes to bed at 8.30. I remember that was his routine too at that age, he would usually go to bed at 8.30 without too much fuss. Some nights he was pretty worked up and we just had to sit there with him (usually took about half an hour) and sometimes he would cry, scream, yell - whatever - but we would continue patting his bum, shooshing him... trying to keep calm ourselves so the nice sleepy vibes would get into the room. Sometimes we would pretend that we were falling asleep so he would get the idea and fall asleep too.. lol
Panadol won't help with the sleep, prolly just did bc he was unwell. I agree with Mel - sounds like he is getting his sleep during the day. Miss Z here did the same at around that age - I had to have her out of bed by 3ish otherwise we were up for hours(she was on 1 nap so bed ~ 1.30 -3). I'd give her some fruit and we'd have to go and run around outside until ~ 4.30pm then we'd start the wind down for dinner etc. It was really hard at the start as I was soooo over being tired and she was not to happy either but after 3 days/a week she completely changed her routine. I still send her out to run around the washing line in the afternoon for a bit, lol.
Good luck - it is awful when you are exhausted and don't have any down time...you sounds like you are doing a great job tho! xx
I was going through the exact thing with my little boy (23mnths) about a month ago. It seems it was just a stage he was going through cos it went for about 2-3 weeks and now he is back down at 8ish at the latest sometimes as early as 7ish. I don't think I changed anything although as the weather is better now in Vic we have been playing outside more in the afternoon so maybe thats wearing him out more, or maybe the fresh air helps?
He's only having one half hour to an hour sleep through the day. I would think that too if he was sleeping through the day more, but I really don't think thats enough to affect his night sleep...
I dunno. We lay in the dark with everything off for the whole 2 or so hours. I've fallen asleep plenty of times & its made no difference, I just wake up to him saying 'bye' as he's climbing off the bed to go find things to do.
Oh man that's rough...Miss Z couldn't have any sleep during the day after about 18months otherwise we were up until midnight. I hope things settle for you soon. xx
Cutting back on day sleep was going to be my suggestion too but that just doesn't seem to be the problem. It sucks getting no "me time". I probably won't start changing his routine until after day light savings starts (just so you don't have to do it twice).
Do you have a bedtime routine? If so what is it?
Help me get DS to sleep earlier
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