Currently 12 weeks pregnant. So exhausted and been quite unwell anyway.
Normally my DD is a brilliant sleeper. Will toddle off to bed once tired and happily be lifted in to self soothe. No issues.
Until the last month. She has acted out no end for me. For her father she will settle, but he will lay in the bed with her until she is in a deep sleep.
For me, she will trash the room. Be fast asleep and the moment she feels movement towards cot/the downward motion she will freak out. Resulting in a battle for hours.
Father works long hours so rarely here to give me that window of break from this.
She is a brilliant little girl in every other way.
But I'm so exhausted. It is reaching the point now (slept through from six months) that if she wakes in ghe night she will scream and wail and nothing will stop this beyond bed sharing. Which keeps me up as she is a massive fidget anyway and I worry.
I've tried sleep training her since this all began, but she goes from 0-100 so quickly to the point she vomits and gets herself in such a state even after less than a minute.
Due to my DH rarely being here of a night I am on my knees with stress and exhaustion. I suffer anxiety anyway but now every evening as bedtime comes it sets it off worse. Could she be sensing this?
Tonight i finally gave in around half 8 to my frustrations and used a "stern" voice (nothing horrible!) And warned her if she got up again I would take her to her cot. She done it again. Got up. Trashed the room. I laid her back down and tried to calm her (she was happy as larry! Laughing!) . She pushed off and done it again. To which I said you have had your warnings, cot time. And pointed. She saw, threw me a face more akin to a teenager and took herself off to bed!
She had a little moan which I comforted and controlled and she settled!
But I feel awful for using stern voice! Was I wrong?!