My DD is 3 next month and I can count on one hand the nights where we got uninterrupted sleep. She has the same routine since she was a baby , dinner , bath , stories , bed . She goes to sleep NEVER earlier than 9:30 regardless of naps or no naps , if and when we try to put her down one hour earlier mostly cause we are knackered it just drags till she goes to to sleep at 9:30 anyway which isn’t too bad but it’s still pretty rubbish considering that around 1 am she will wake up
, come crying in our bed and spend the rest of the night kicking us , rolling , whining until it’s 5:30 am and she is wide awake and saying on repeat DADDY DADDY I WANT BREAKFAST and one of us eventually gives up and gets up . We are exhausted, slightly depressed ( how would I know I have been taking meds since the horrific total sleep deprivation depression I got after the first year of no sleep ) and on survival mode every day . She still has one h nap after lunch , we tried stopping it but not only when it’s successful she still has a horrid night sleep , but most of the time she will fall asleep half way through the afternoon absolutely exhausted no matter where we are so I assumed she still needs it . Her behaviour is somehow perfectly fine and she appropriate , she is developing and learning just fine , she catches colds and viruses at nursery like every other kid but her sleep is as bad as any normal day so we don’t really suffer at night because of that .
she is currently sleeping in her little toddler bed in our bed which to me is a massive fail cause we have been trying to avoid setting these bad precedents . But we are past exhausted and our life is pretty bad because of it . HELP . Just help !!!