2.5yo still not sleeping through the night

[sarahb083]

Please someone who has been in this situation tell me it will get better.
I have a 2.5yo daughter who has never been a good sleeper. She has sometimes gone a few months of mostly sleeping through the night, and then months on end of night wakings. We've tried everything. It's been SO LONG. She has slept awfully all summer and it's really got me down, as I feel like it's been years of just surviving. My husband and I both have stressful jobs and I don't cope well with the disrupted sleep. I thought that by now surely it would have gotten better?!

No advice but solidarity. Mine (similar age) has never slept through. We cosleep as it’s so much easier to cuddle him back to sleep than traipse between rooms. One night a week I have a very early night to catch up and one morning I get a lie-in til 9ish, when my H starts work from home.

I could.have written this. My last dd didn't sleep until she was 3 and it was a very strict routine worked out with a sleep consultant that got her there.

We were putting her down at 8pm and she was woken at 8am for the morning school run/work/creche despite being up for 2-4 hours a night. We started to put her down at 6.30pm, choose her pjs and story brush teeth and then sleep.time

No engagement with child after lights out. Have one sleep phrase that you use. It's time for sleep now, was ours. When they try to get you to chat don't engage, then after a few seconds you can use your phrase. 3 nights wherever you normally sit to get them to sleep. Next 3 nights about 2 foot closer to the door, next 3 nights at the door and.then after that put them down and walk out. If they wake at night use same.method you are at for the earlier put down to sleep phase. Stick to it, be rigid, it worked for us. After a while.when she had addressed her sleep.deficit we could.push bedtime out to 7.30.or so and she rarely wakes during 7 now unless she is ill.or out of routine.

My advice is to get a sleep consultant to tailor a plan for your child.

Good luck, I've been there, I know the torture.

My 3 year old has only, in the last 2/3 months, started consistently sleeping through the night. He slept like a dream up until he turned 1, and since then, his sleep has been all over the place, until recently. As long as you have a good routine in place, she'll get there. It's developmental.

What have you tried?
what’s her schedule look like?