Apologies in advance for this rambling (and probably incoherent) post. I've not had a decent nights sleep since my first trimester and my daughter is now 13 months old. I've been riding the sleep deprivation wave a long time.
I have had nothing but issues with DDs sleep since day 1. Both naps and bedtimes have been nothing but a headache for all involved.
For the first 6 months of her life (at least) she would only sleep on my chest. Any and all attempts to get her to sleep anywhere else failed, despite using every trick in the book. She then progressed to wanting to sleep only lying next to me. I could finally put her in her overpriced "next to me crib" but she'd already outgrown it before ever using it 🤬🤬🤬 At about 10 months old I then moved her into her own cot in her own room. To ease the transition I removed one side of her cot and spent the next month sleeping on the floor of her bedroom. Finally at 11 months old I put her cot side back on and moved back into my bed. I was awoken frequently as every time her dummy fell out she'd cry in her sleep and I'd have to go back to her to return it. She never learnt to put it back in herself. Every tooth that came through affected her sleep and she also suffered with constipation which also meant nights of tossing and turning for her and no sleep for me 😫 At 12 months old I made the decision to get rid of the dummy. This made her regress to only wanting to sleep on me again. This last month we've worked at getting her back to sleeping in her cot (with me on the floor). I get broken sleep at best. She tosses and turns constantly through the night and cries frequently in her sleep. I don't think she's teething and I think we've sorted the constipation so I don't know why she cries in her sleep 🤷♀️
Basically I've had enough. Over a year without one decent nights sleep leaves me grumpy all day. It'd be so nice if she could go to sleep on her own and stay that way. I'm sick of sleeping on the floor and I'm just sick of bedtimes. I can't leave her to cry. She won't settle and just goes from crying to hysterically screaming. Leaving and coming back also doesn't make a blind bit of difference. I have to let her fall asleep on my chest before moving her into her cot. She normally has a couple of hours of restful sleep before the tossing and turning and/or crying starts. I feel it's a battle of the wills at the moment. If I was well rested then I feel I'd be a bit better at dealing with this. As it is my patience is shot, and I feel like I'm just done. It's 5am and I've had no sleep. She was fussing from 8pm-3am whilst asleep and then has been crying for the last 2 hours I've finally got her back to sleep. She'll probably be awake in about an hour to start her day 😭
I feel like I'm doing something (or a lot of things) wrong. Surely at a year old this should be getting easier?!?!
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Motherhippo · 30/09/2020 05:06
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