I feel I am at the end of my tether with my 4 year old daughter. DD was a prem baby and has had a number of issues: delayed development, specific language impairment, confidence issues, delays in fine motor skills etc
She is an absolute nightmare at night it can easily take 2-4 hours to get her to go to sleep and then she is up several times in the night. She doesn't seem to understand she is driving us to distraction with her constantly getting out of bed, we have tried reward systems and taking things away. Nothing works. Its like she can't relax and go to sleep. If she gets up in the night and we don't hear her she has no problem with wandering around our flat and causing mischief eg throwing food out of the fridge, leaving freezer door open etc
During the day she is quite a handful too, she doesn't really play with toys she just destroys them or throws them across the room. She has a very low attention span and struggles to sit still to read a book or watch a tv programme. She never sits still for her meals and is constantly running around despite numerous requests from us to sit at the table.
I work full time and not sure how much longer I can cope with the constant disturbed sleep. I feel like I am a bad Mum and am failing my daughter.
I am wondering if this is ADD/ADHD. Has anyone got any advice for me? I am going to see her Paed at the end of August so will be discussing all this then.
Michelle