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Child sleep

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Daisy95 · 03/04/2022 20:12

My nearly two year old sleep has always been bad but this week has hit a whole new level of awful.
She used to have her bedtime routine then go into her travel cot (as won't go near her normal cot) at 7pm and fall straight to sleep then wakes between 1-3 am and wouldn't settle back to sleep unless we slept on her floor or brought her in our bed. Then wakes at 6am.
She has white noise, red night light, black out blinds. You name it we've tried it.

This week she now won't even fall asleep without me sat in her doorway. She then wakes within an hour, she'll settle back if I sit in her doorway, then can wake again any time between 15-60 mins and I repeat sitting in her doorway, this happens all night unless I bring her into our bed.

We are so exhausted we literally have no energy left. We both work shifts for the nhs and getting worried we're so tired we could make mistakes for our patients.

Does anyone have any ideas of what else we could try?
We're pretty desperate and really starting to affect our family and relationship dynamic

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Peasandcabbage · 03/04/2022 20:50

I'm sorry OP. It's so hard.

You will get mixed responses here but I broke at 15 months with dd1 and tried Ferber. It worked within two nights. It was hard, I'm not going to lie, but the difference in her and us is marked.

I suppose the options for you are to try that type of thing, or to cosleep. I would add dd1 is now three and does a mix of beds. Starts in hers and comes along at some stage in night, but, she climbs in and goes straight to sleep. So I don't mind.

Daisy95 · 03/04/2022 21:33

@Peasandcabbage thank you, yes I didn't mind when she used to come in around 2-3ish but it's just relentless now.

I'll have a look at the feber method, thank you for your kind words

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twinsetandpearl · 03/04/2022 21:40

I went with bringing eldest in to our bed / took her until age 4.5 to get back in her own bed regularly though 😂

Now have twins - co sleeping is impossible so back to zero sleep

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Abouttimemum · 03/04/2022 21:45

What is her routine through the day? Does she nap?

AliceW89 · 03/04/2022 21:50

When does she nap and how long for?

User56436674 · 03/04/2022 21:54

That sounds so hard. I just cosleep when they go like that, I don't have the energy for all that. Is that not an option?

Daisy95 · 04/04/2022 09:09

Her nap is around 12.15 for about an hour, if she would just co-sleep I would, but she starts talking to us and trying to high five my husband and starts trying to play.

If she co-slept nicely I would happily go with that, just to get any sleep.
Thank you all for your advice

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