I won’t bore you with the details but needless to say my daughter has never been a good sleeper. I don’t mean early rising or catnapping I mean being up for 3 or 4 hours in the night or waking every half hour or both since birth with no real improvement.
She’s now 2 and 3m and continues to sleep badly and has also dropped naps so she really needs that night sleep.
Since dropping the naps I can see she’s really miserable. She’s too tired to function and it makes her grumpy and sad. I can see it making her life really hard she just cries and rubs her eyes and says ‘I want a nap’ but won’t nap. No matter how tired she gets it’s the same. Wakes up 1 or 2 times but for 2 hours minimum but still up early. Gets about 8-10 hours in 24.
I am obviously exhausted too and mental health been on the floor for 2 years but as an adult I can at least accept that. I hate seeing her like this I just want her to be happy.
I rang the health visitor and was bombarded with pseudoscience about bananas before bed, limited screen time and ‘winding down’ all of which I’ve tried and it did nothing.
Has anyone successfully intervened with toddler sleep? Can a GP or some sort of specialist do something?
I’d really appreciate not getting comments about toddlers always being cranky or it being something else - I know lt own child and I know this is it.