Clearly IABU. But please talk some sense into me (kindly). I am very sleep deprived and loosing the plot somewhat.
I have a lovely 18month old DD. Lovely in every way, but was a really very, very, very clingy baby - not wanting to be put down at all (she had a difficult start poor thing being in SCBU). She is now actually a very easy toddler and sociable little girl, but is still a terrible sleeper.
We had been making quite a bit of progress on sleep using a mixture between the no cry sleep solution and pick up put down (I didn?t want to co-sleep and really didn?t want to do CC or CIO). But we?ve had a bad January with various illnesses and teething and after nights and nights of terrible sleep ?up 1-3 1/2 hours a night ? I?m struggling to see reason.
I would love to have a second child and had been planning to get on the case soon (due to biological clocks ticking and all that), but am very worried about the sleep. How on earth do people manage with a new born and a poor sleeping toddler (let alone people who have more than two DC)? I feel like the walking dead already and I only have one child! On the other hand to not have a second child just because of sleep when hopefully that will eventually right itself seems silly really and something I would undoubtedly regret later on.
Oh I should say I have a lovely DH who does his share when here, but is away a lot for work. There is no doubt that lack of sleep has put a strain on our relationship, though we still get on very well and he is a great dad.
So AIBU? And even more importantly, those of you with poor sleepers how do you manage with two (or more)?
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