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Im so tired!!

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Momsyy · 04/12/2024 02:16

No matter what i do this always happens. I've got a 10 month old. i've been having issues with him sleeping through the night for several weeks. almost every day he wakes up at around 1/2 am and stays up until almost 6am. it's killing me inside this routine, makes me feel worthless and that im doing everything wrong. yesterday after a long time i was able to put him to bed at 23. and he woke up at 8.30am. today i had him having 2 naps. 1 at 12 and the other one from 16 until 18. therefore i put him to bed at 22ish, and expected him to sleep through the night. i was sleeping as well, he just woke up at 1. i tried to put him back to sleep but no success. he just started babbling and getting up jumping. i really don't know what to do anymore this is not healthy and im going crazy. doing this everyday is killing me. sometimes it could be my fault as he goes to bed as i said at 5/6am, and wakes up at 14pm, and i let that happen as im so tired i end up sleeping as well. but i've been trying to wake up early and still doesn't work

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Coolbreezee · 04/12/2024 04:26

I have an 8 month old who is going through a sleep regression. Was sleeping through fine until one day when she didn't. Now we wake up at 3 am every night for a nappy change she struggles to get back to sleep after that. So I have started getting up at that time. Going to the living room in the semi dark (currently lit with Christmas lights and a salt lamp) play very quite soothing music. Awe read some stories on the floor, I have a coffee, I let her play with her cuddly toy. There are no tears or fighting it's just 3 am cuddles. Within an hour she is rubbing her eyes and we either go back to bed until 6 or 7 OR she falls asleep on me on the sofa and I do some work. I found that embracing rather than fighting the night wakings helped a lot. If I were to try and get her back to sleep there would be a lot of wriggling and resistance which I don't have the energy for at that time. Some days if I'm feeling really tired we have an afternoon nap together for an hour. I go to bed with her at 8 pm on those days I'm really tired. Overall,I found embracing it and going with the flow has been the best way to make It less painful. She is starting to wake up later again. Today it was 3:50 and after some stories and a cuddle she is back asleep on me.

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