DD has always been a rubbish sleeper, stopped napping shortly after 1 and in general has bundles of energy. I have a 1yo dd also and they share a room.
have had some concerns about her RE ASD, however haven’t managed to successfully get her assessed despite going down 3 different avenues. First I contacted school who said they can’t help as she masks as school but gave me the name of the local authority to contact and said also go through GP. Tried local authority who said no they don’t take direct requests, went through GP who said wait 3 months and if no improvement they will send referral. Waited the three months with things getting worse, had an appointment with the GP who sent off referral in May. Received a letter last week saying the referral was rejected because not enough info was supplied and told me to go through the school. So yep, round and round in circles. DH not fully supportive of an assessment as he thinks she’s just a quirky kid, however doesn’t get the brunt of her behaviour at all and he travels for work a lot. Despite this I contacted a private paed who specialises in ASD for an assessment, just need to find the funds for that.
basically dd will not sleep at night. It takes hours of fighting before she will go down. She’s often awake in the middle of the night anywhere between 20 minutes to 2-3 hours. Wakes up early too. I keep her very active, playground every day after school as well as playing at home. She eats a select few foods but a lot of them if that makes sense so she isn’t hungry! I’m on my fucking knees, this week has been awful. She wakes her sister up multiple times a night, I’m getting barely any sleep. I lost it tonight and demanded DH come home because I can’t cope with the 4 hours of endless fighting. I get zero time alone, house is a shithole all the time because as soon as I clean she is wrecking again. please has anyone got any advice??? As I wrote this she has gotten out of bed again. I can barely keep my eyes open I’m so tired.