My second DD is absolutely exhausting! My older child was what I considered a fairly average baby/toddler, fairly good sleeper, a bit naughty but generally easy to look after.
My second is just 2 and she is nothing like her older sister. She’s a whirlwind, doesn’t stop, doesn’t sleep - never slept through. Tells me she doesn’t want to sleep because it’s boring. She wakes up in the night and wants to play for hours. We have tried everything to get her sleeping, that’s a whole other thread.
In the day she just wants to be doing something constantly. Usually something she shouldn’t be doing like climbing on furniture. She won’t chill for a second, I’m sure my oldest could sit for an episode of Peppa by now! She also lashes out a lot and finds it funny when she’s told off. She will shout things like “I don’t love you mummy” when I’m telling her she shouldn’t be doing things.
She’s a joy when she’s engaged with you in an activity of her choosing,
she’s very clever and speaking far more than my older child at 2. She also potty trained at 20 months. I mean surely potty training comes after sleeping through?!
For others with similar children, when did it calm down? Did it ever? I’m worried for her when she starts playgroup in a few months that she’ll lash out at other children and have no respect for the group leaders. She’s in with a childminder 3 days a week at the moment and she behaves a bit better for her but still won’t sleep and has bitten the other child in her care once, in retaliation to them biting her but still.
I’m finding it all very challenging and the sleep deprivation is torture.
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If you had a hyperactive, defiant, non-stop, sleep fighting baby/toddler when did they calm down?
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Nosleeptilteenagers · 29/07/2020 10:20
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