Up late with my 17mo and I'm frustrated

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DS has been shit with sleep today. Refused to nap, so we put him to bed an hour earlier, woke up a few times but managed to settle easily, until now.

He'd been tossing and turning since 10:30 (could hear him getting frustrated), got upset at 11:45pm so I went in to soothe him. Bad idea, he wouldn't stop screeching the house down. I got frustrated, DH got frustrated, next door got frustrated (could hear him shouting shut up through the walls). Nothing would soothe him. So at 12:30 I gave in and brought him downstairs and we're now watching tv together. I just wanted to stop the screeching.

I guess I'm posting as I'm still frustrated and I needed to vent. I know next door are trying to sleep and the screeching is horrible, but shouting through the walls isn't helpful. It just gets my back up. And I feel sorry for DH as he's up at 4am for work as a driver so he needs his sleep. He's happy to take DS off me to try and calm DS himself, which I really appreciate, but he needs to sleep. So that's why we're downstairs, so others can sleep.

Luckily I don't have anything planned tomorrow.

Vent away I’m in the same boat. Brought him downstairs so everyone else can sleep. I hope you got back to bed and neighbour calmed down. It sucks but doesn’t last forever.

Bless you!

Mine is 17 years now but I remember those days.

Is he maybe teething or coming down with something?

Hopefully he'll settle soon and he can get some sleep, but you're right neighbour not being at all helpful.

Shouting at a toddler to shut up? What a lovely person.

I hope he's asleep now.

In the same boat 😴😴 wee one has a nasty cold atm

What a horrible neighbour. Similar night here, ds1 screaming and crying. He had a high temp at 6 so had calpol. He's now on top form while the paracetamol is working but the rest of us feel like wet rags. Hope your son is ok and you get a quiet day.

Thank you everyone. I think it was teething, as he would sometimes bite down on his dummy and then cry. Calpol seemed to help. I gave him a bit of water a well but he just brought that back up. We came back up stairs at 2am for a clothes change, and he went back to sleep with only a couple of minutes fuss. We both then slept till 8:30 so I'm not feeling as bad.
Now I just have to decide whether to go next door to apologise. They are a lovely young couple, only had a few times in the 2 years they have lived here that they have annoyed us (very late night parties - 2 being NYE so don't really count them - and deciding to drill into the wall just as nap time had started which they wouldn't have known about).

Glad you got some sleep in the end and hope your little one is ok. Personally I probably wouldn't apologise as such but if I saw them I would say that the baby is teething and that you are doing what you can to settle him.

My DS is same age and does same thing. Luckily my neighbours are very tolerant. We're in a flat so they defo hear him crying above them. I keep thinking next month will be easier.... but it's not.