So here I am, in the dark, in my daughters room for the past 2 hrs. On my phone behind her back cos otherwise I'd go insane.
We just put up with it. We feel there's no option. She has always been a screamer. No one can scream like her. It's blood curdling. So we can't do CIO as we have another child next door.
She takes 2 hrs to go to sleep and has on average 2 wake ups a night.
It's really half killed us over the past 2.5 years.
People say "but does she nap?" Nope, not for well over a year. Occasionally creche say she had 20 mins but it's not common and she doesn't nap normally.
People say "s she waking up for food?" Nope, we haven't fed her at night since she was weaned. She gets no milk or anything.
We don't interact at all. She looks up at the ceiling and plays with her hands or her teddy for 2 hrs.
During the night we just settle her back down without a sound. But often she's out on the landing within 30 secs of waking. Sometimes it takes an hour for her to go back to sleep. We just sit there silently for an hour.
Sometimes I really resentful. We have a guest tonight and I havent even seen them. What must he think of us?