How much sleep are you currently surviving on?

[DisneyGirl2387]

15 month old DS going through awful separation anxiety. Sleep has never been great (doesn't sleep through). Last night was up at 9.30pm then awake 11.30 until 2am then again at 5am. We are on day 7 of this. I got 4 hours sleep last night (not in one go!). I'm beyond tired. I am just about to leave for work (teacher) and I don't know how I am going to get through the day! I have also got parents evening tonight. I'm currently making a coffee in my flask chanting ' this is just a phase' over and over again. DS is running around with a teaspoon in one hand and his toy hoover in the other with Abba blasting (he demands Abba). How do people cope with more than one? I'm genuinely in awe! I've had to put lots of make up on so my big black bags don't scare my class of 4 year old. Tell me I'm not alone in the lack of sleep? Tell me it gets easier or have I got to wait until he's a teenager until he sleeps. Send help!

Could he be teething op? When you say it's because of separation anxiety, is he in a different room? Could you try co-sleeping until this phase passes. You'll get a lot more rest. My DS4 (14 months) is not a very reliable sleeper either, but if he's having a bad night, he just comes into bed with us.

It will be just a phase, as you say. But there are things you can do temporarily to help see the phase through.

P. S. To answer your title question, I tend to get about 5 or 6 hours sleep midweek, but catch up a bit at weekends as DH gets up with the kids (I do all night wakings as I'm breastfeeding).