Argh why does my one year old hate sleep?!

[MagnaDoodle]

😣😣 takes an age to get to sleep. Wakes up at the fart of a gnat or at least every two hours. Takes an age to go back to sleep again. Why. Why?!

Sorry nothing helpful to add. My now 2.5 year old improved overtime. As much as I hated to hear it all I can offer is hang in there.. it gets better xx

She will lie on me half asleep for ages and ages but goes screaming nuts if she gets put down too early. Needs to be sound asleep or won’t entertain going into the cot

Mine breastfed to sleep for ages and we co slept. Just so I could get some sleep. What helped was having DH do the whole bedtime routine,bath some milk if she'll have it and story. I hide downstairs. She has slowly improved with sleeping longer stretches. Maybe something to try.

You have my sympathies. I'm sure someone will be along shortly with better advice.

I don’t breastfeed. She has a bottle of milk before bed which used to make her sleepy but she will fight it to the death now. Shes getting too heavy for me to rock her to sleep but just does not go to sleep on her own.

I’m in the same boat with my 11 moth old. Not advice here. He tries to keep awake by pushing himself into a seated position sometimes that works and we are up every two hours. Other nights he’ll be too tired to make it and fall asleep slumped over. He just won’t give in!

Have you tried a dummy? My youngest found one in a toy box 6 months ago at 14 months, most sane parents wouldnt allow it so late but he's slept amazingly ever since so I'm delighted about it. Also try white noise. It's the only thing that will settle him if we stay somewhere other than home.

Yeah she has a dummy. Sometimes it’ll put her back to sleep but it’s becoming less and less effective. Its like she never really sleeps soundly. Even when she is asleep she’s always moaning and tossing and turning. Perfectly happy during the day though.

I’d give you a sympathy fist bump as I sit here for yet another long night of sleeplessness with a child that only sleeps on me, but I’m so clumsy with tiredness that I would only miss

Threads like this help me. I feel less alone and frustrated.

Mine is laid on my head right now. Solidarity.