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abeanbaked · 23/05/2022 09:53

How do you manage? I'm at the end of my tether, DH works full time, I work 28 hours (mix of day and nightshifts). Our DS (11 months) is such a poor sleeper just now, he has had periods of being quite good but never sleeps past 6am if he does.

Just now he needs rocked and shushed to sleep at 7.30pm, wakes around 1am then 4am then up for the day at 6am. DH does childcare morning and evening when I work as I start early and finish late. We take turns at getting up in the night but between this, the dog and work, we're just done. We've completely drifted apart and constantly fight over sleep. My parents and siblings all work full time so can't help during the week and aren't keen to give up their weekends. DH's family provide childcare when I work days and he starts with his child minder one day a week soon so that will help in that they don't have him all the time. How does everyone else get by!?

I have tried co-sleeping out of sheer desperation to get some more sleep but he just crawls around the bed!

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blobby10 · 23/05/2022 11:34

My three were all poor sleepers - and the youngest had night-time enuresis until she was 9 - so it was a total of 13 years before I had a full night of sleep. I only worked 20 hours per week (9am-1pm) but drank lots of coffee and water. And somehow got used to it - at one point, if I did get a full night I felt really out of sorts the next day.

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