To feel like it won’t get better 🥱

[Tiredestofthemall]

I know it will logically but I’ve always found the lack of sleep the worst thing about little children by far.

Second time around I was kind of prepared for it but my second was actually a good sleeper which fooled me! But since being about nine months her sleep has been erratic and I’m not claiming she’s the worst, far from it, but she’s eighteen months now and we still have one regular wake up per night, sometimes more, occasionally (like last night) a split night, very very occasionally sleeps all the way through (and then you can guarantee that’ll be the night her brother will wake up or someone will crash outside our house or something!)

It’s the unpredictable nature of it that’s hard. I go to bed every night not knowing when I’ll be woken, if that’s it for the night or not.

I do get very tired and I don’t get much if any downtime really. I found it was survivable when on maternity leave but now I’m back to working three days a week and it’s really tiring when I’m woken multiple times a night! I suppose I’m just looking for solidarity, any advice or things people have done that’s worked and just knowing the end is in sight!

Solidarity with you! My second is the same age and still wakes once through the night, a full night is very rare. I agree it’s hard not knowing when or if you are going to be needed! I don’t remember my first still waking at this age. I’m pretty sure with some training I could get her to sleep through but being back at work full time I don’t really have the energy to fight that right now.

my two aged 7 and 3 are terrible sleepers, both wake 2-3 times a night. We have them both in double beds and can just get in beside them and go back to sleep. I know it's not ideal but otherwise I just don't sleep waiting for a wake.

It’s so hard! I did some gentle sleep training with the first and he responded brilliantly to it but no2 is both better and worse. I know she isn’t terrible and in some ways that’s the frustrating thing as I feel as if she ‘should’ be sleeping through fairly reliably by now.