DS is 18mo and not sleeping - the last 3 nights he has refusd to go to bed at 7.30 like normal, and has not gone down til midnight. He wakes at 6. He only naps in his buggy. Whenever he wakes up in the night he needs to be held back to sleep. Won't self settle. 80% of the time when I go in it just wakes him up more anyway. I know I have done everything wrong to get to this stage, but here we are.
The problem is that I can't take it anymore and keep on losing my temper with him at night. I am not particularly gentle, and sometimes have to put him down to go into another room and hit things. My tone of voice is strained. this morning I just broke down into howling crying and obivously so did he.
I can't go on and realize now I should never have become a parent. That sounds dramatic but really I am not coping with any of it - which is why he's such a bad sleeper to begin with. I have a difficult and demanding job, which I am failing at becuase of the lack of sleep. I have target related pay and I am missing targets so now we are in debt and I just don't know what to do. Nobody else can take him over night, DP has just started a new job (and we desperately need his income) and he already does 50%. I am just dreadful at this.
Sorry, not sure what I'm asking. I have no idea what to do next. I can't sleep myself because I dread waking up.
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cinemalovers · 11/01/2015 12:24
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