How to deal with exhaustion?

[jimPamm]

1st time mum to my 1yo!

currently going through what I think is the 12-15 month sleep regression. I feel like if it’s not a regression it’s a nursery but or teething or a growth spurt !!

Hes never slept through and he does go down very easy - it’s the staying asleep.

How do I deal with the exhaustion? I’m just going to have to deal with it I guess. We don’t have much help. My mother has DS on her day off work to help us with childcare costs. DH mum is helpful but kind of moaned about when the other grandkids have stayed and woke during the night so I don’t think she’d be willing to help.

So little tips please any handy tricks?

I stupidly thought at 1yo he’d be sleeping through😅

You just have to go to bed when the baby does a few times a week to catch up on sleep! Forget about staying up to be an ‘adult’ and watching tv or cleaning up, sometimes the basics need to come first.
Two nights a week going to bed right after he goes to bed will really help!

Does 1yo still nap? Can you nap then too? Or sit down for some quiet 'you' time during naps if not napping then yourself? That used to help me.

When does baby go to bed/sleep in the evening and when is their longest stretch of sleep? Use that time to go to bed yourself!

Get out every day for some fresh air. For you and the toddler. Won't do much for the exhaustion but will make you feel fresher!

Don't do too much in your days.

It will pass! My little one didn't sleep through until 2.

I’m really guilty of staying up cleaning, doing work emails etc! I need to go to bed earlier his biggest stretch is I’d say 7(bedtime) - 12. He does wake his dummy a few times during this but it’s brief

he does have a nap! He goes to nursery 4 days and my mums one day I work full time :( on weekends I try but their usually jam packed so I always think “there’s no point” :/ I just always feel I need to do something

Fresh air, caffeine, taking any help you can possibly get on the days where sleep isn't an option.

Go to bed when they do at night, nap when they do and nap on your lunchtime work break if you have to!

Everything is a phase but the sleeplessness is killer

fresh air
caffeine
sharing the load with baby's dad
and one lie in a week

can heartily recommend headband earphones