I'm seriously at breaking point with my 20MO. Up til a few weeks ago I was bragging away that she slept like an angel. However a few weeks ago she had a spout of illnesses and ever since she has been absolutely horrendous. She won't stay in her bed and runs out the minute we've put her in and laughs and finds it really funny. She can be relentless for as long as 2 hours and then she'll keep waking overnight too. We were letting her in our bed overnight but she was just messing about in there too so we now only let her if its past about 5am otherwise we're battling her back into bed then too. As a general rule we've been staying in the room with her and not interacting with her and putting her back in bed but today I'm not gonna lie I lost it a tad with her and gave up getting her back into bed and shut her door on her. Needless to say it only exasperated things and she howled and I could only stand to hear her like that for a few seconds before I went back in anyway. We have a good solid routine which we rarely break which is dinner, upstairs for bath, back down and tidy up her toys in the living room, quiet time for 10-20 mins reading stories and drinking some milk then upstairs to brush teeth then 1 story she chooses and the exact same story every night to finish and we sing her her night night song (a version of twinkle twinkle little star that I made up) she still naps at around midday but this is also a nightmare and most days I resort to driving her to get her to sleep. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether she sleeps for 10 minutes or 3 hours. I'm really at my wit's end and finding it hard to be therapeutic when all my brain is telling me is 'you're taking the p$ss' I'm getting quite close to just giving up on routine and just letting her cuddle to sleep downstairs as I don't see how this is doing any of us any good. My heart is breaking a little right now as I can't shake the feeling that she's trying to tell us that she's unsettled and I feel like we're failing her. Any advice on how to deal with this therapeautically kr just any reassurance that it'll get better would be really appreciated... thanks xx
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