You poor thing

We all have a point where it's just too much and you feel you can't take it any more. When it takes that long every single night, tonight is even longer and no matter how nice you are, you're trying and it's been an hour and they're laughing at you. It's hard to just keep calm for that long!

I've done it too. When DD used to feed to sleep it could take 30-90 minutes. There were nights I'd take her to her room three times, she'd wake up three times. By then my nipples felt raw and she'd just woken herself up completely. One time I put her on the bed and yelled just go to sleep! Then we both just cried. DH came and took her and I learnt that when I was getting that way I needed to get out earlier. She would only feed to sleep so he couldn't get her to sleep, but he could calm her and help her get tired while I recovered myself and was able to try again.

Now we just read books and sing to her in her bed til she's asleep. She has nights where she goes a little crazy, and if I'm the one with her I just don't want to be singing for an hour while she mucks around, so I tell her I'm there to help her sleep but if she won't try there's no point me helping and I'll leave. She keeps going so I leave, she cries and calls for Mummy, so I go back and we talk about what she needs to do to go to sleep. Usually she calms down and will sleep, if not on the third time I tell her I can't stay and help anymore and Daddy will come in.

Things like this happen to everyone. Our kids aren't perfect, they drive us completely mental sometimes, and we're not perfect either. I've just learnt to get out early when things are going pear shaped.