Just wondering if anyone has any advice for me please...
My 18 month old keeps waking in the night - he goes to bed fine, at about 7ish and some nights he does sleep all the way through (although he does wake up by 6, bit too early for my liking but hey ho) - but more often than not, he's waking in the night. This has been going on for months and months and months and I'm now at my wits end. This morning I have been up since 3am, yesterday it was 4.30am - and if it was on my days off I wouldn't mind, but having to drag my tired self into work is just too much now.
Sometimes he starts off just chatting, and I just leave him to it, but eventually it turns into crying, and then I end up going in to try and calm him down. Usually I just stroke him and shush him, but then he just starts up again when I leave the room - I try leaving him to settle down again, and then end up back at square one. If he gets really worked up I pick him up, give him a little cuddle, then put him back in bed, and it just goes on and on for hours. I've even tried bringing him into bed with me when I can't take it anymore, and then he just wants to play and chat! I know that if he cries in the night, I'm going to be up for about 2 hours minimum.
I think it's just habit more than anything else - he's not hungry/cold/hot/teething/over tired/ under tired - but I don't know how to break it and my patience is seriously wearing thin, not helped by being the only one at home to deal with it while my husband is working nights.
Any advice would be gratefully received!
Right, off to have a snooze under my desk now..... (if only)
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cluxy · 27/03/2013 11:48
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