My DD is 3, almost 4. She has never been a good sleeper ever since she was born. We've sleep trained and it helped to an extent but she regularly wakes up in the night for 2-3 hours at a time. Usually around 2am.
It has happened every night for the last 2 weeks and I am knackered. I also have a 6 month old who wakes regularly and I am juggling them both at night.
Last night she woke at 1am and I laid with her to encourage her to go back to sleep but she couldn't. Usually I just lie there and gently encourage but I was exhausted and got really cross with her about it and ranted and raved about how we must sleep at night, her behaviour is unfair, if she carries on doing this we won't be going to gymnastics anymore, blah blah blah. I lost my cool and I feel awful. She kept saying sorry 😞. I dont know what to do. It's been 4 years of this and I'm exhausted but mainly I feel so guilty for getting angry with my little girl who wasn't misbehaving, she just can't sleep.
Does anyone have any tips for sleep or just words to make me feel less awful. I calmly apologised this morning and she was fine but I feel dreadful.
Dad is around and helps when he can but gets up really early for work so I do most weeknights.