I dont have any advice as Bella is going through a "stage" at the moment as well where she will go to bed at h er normal 8 oclock then for the past 3 nights she has woken at 1am and will not go back to sleep in her cot - I have given bottles and pain relieve as she is cutting all 4 of her eye teeth. She will how ever go back to sleep in our bed or for the last 2 nights I have slept with her in the spare bed and she is out like a light. I thinks its a speration anxiety thing - could that be the same for DD1??
Do you have a spare bed that you could sleep in with her - then maybe get some sleep with her? Or a mattress on the lounge floor??
DD1 did this for about a month before DD2 came along it was horrible so im sending some
I would get her up and sit on the lounge with her until she calmed down and then put her in bed but then she would wake up and expect to go onto the lounge everynight.
so I just gave up on sleep for a few nights and just kept going back in to resettle her in bed i think she just realised after a few nights play time was over.
She still wakes once or twice a night but we just have to put her dummy back in and lay her down again.
it was hard because her room is right next to DS so he was getting woken all the time.
Im sorry I dont have any helpful advice its so hard to function with no sleep
I really hope things improve soon
I don't have any advice to give but is there ANYONE who can mind your LOs today for a couple of hours while YOU get some sleep? It's sooooo hard making any sort of gameplan when you're in such terrible sleep deprivation! I sure hope your family can find a solution soon.
Kate - I dont' think its separation anxiety otherwise I would have thought she would settle in our bed? But she's just crazy in our bed and its even worse when DS is in there as well (like he was the other night, and she would annoy him and he'd be like... all I wanna do is go to sleep.. and me and DH were going - ME TOO!!! lol)
Plus she went through separation anxiety at 14 months, and she's sorta grown out of that phase, well she doesn't have the same things as she used to when I left her, she is really independent and stuff now.
PO5 - yeah she did it too before DD2 came along, it was shocking then too. And even though I'm not pregnant, its definitely just as bad!!!
Koru - Sterla has offered to come and watch the kids for me, but I don't really do naps in the day time unfortunately, its like my body just won't let me sleep or something until night time - no matter how much I want it.
Hugs hun DS1 has been like this for 1 week and I am ready to loose it!! Since 11 months he has gone to bed 2000 - 2100 and slept till 0730 - 0900, but since fri night he has had nights of screaming and carrying on till midnight or later or going down ok at 2000 ish and then waking at 2 or 3 screaming, put him in our bed and all he does is poke us climb on us and be down right annoying. Put him back in cot and he screams!!
I am of course feeding DS2 at times over night so that then means I need to put DS1 back in his bed, last night DH said just let him cry I did for a bit then lost it and told him my blood was boiling listening to him! so he went and folded out sofa bed in DS1 room and slept with him there.
On weekend he had some temps but otherwise well.
Hun you are not alone we can all go to mental asylum together!!
Im not too up to speed on the gentle parenting stuff.. but have you tried a calm walm bath with maybe some lavender oils or something? If its an on going thing, maybe you can try that when she starts to worm around once the others have gone to sleep.. just to get everything calm and warm with her. Will help if she has a bit of nappy rash too. Im guessing its colder there than it is here, so maybe shes just getting uncomfortable with the cold.. not to mension her teeth coming through. DD is having a few nights here and there where her teeth are giving her hell. 1 in particular.
mel. no advice, i know you've been going through this for ages & have tried almost everything. i often wonder with DS what it is that i'm missing, is there something simple that i've completely overlooked! somehow i don't think it is that simple though
hang in there, i really hope things improve for you soon
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