DD aged 5 has been great a sleeper. Now for a week she has been waking frequently in the night and refusing to go back to sleep unless I lie down with her and play her sleep stories. I've had 3-4 hours sleep a night max all week.
I have another daughter and work full time. I'm Widowed and have been since before DD was born, I've patenting completely alone for 5 years and I'm completely burnt out, if I don't get physical sleep I will crack or end up crashing the car or something.
She goes to sleep listening to sleep stories and with me cuddling her at the start of the night. Perhaps this is the issue.
I need a method to fix this. She says she is scared in the night. She's not even alone, her sister is in with her.
Can I do sleep training at her age? Leave her for increasing intervals?
I am broken. I can't even stay in the room with her when she's yelling she can't sleep as I get so angry so I have to leave.
I've been doing this alone, carrying the grief for so long, please don't judge me, just give me strategies