I'm so exhausted I can hardly think straight to type this out.
I went back to work when DD was 9mo so maybe that change and the famous 9mo sleep regression started to disrupt her sleep, badly!
Nearly overnight she went from sleeping most of the night in her own cot, to waking for 2 -3 hours at a time and its still going now she's 14mths and my DH and I are near breaking point.
DD and DS (3.5) share a room. He was a poor sleeper until he was about 2 but then was fine until DD began her antics. Now she has wakened him up so many times he's back in a routine of getting up in the night, so his sleep is getting disrupted too.
When DD wakes she can either be chatting away wide awake and happy as larry, or crying and upset, there's no telling which.
Either myself or DH go in and try to settle her but she usually settles more easily for me. She's rocked and walked to sleep, which is really just an effort to keep her quiet so she doesnt wake DS, but we're getting nowhere.
At this stage I would be willing to at least try CC but she's having none of it and wakes the whole house if I leave the room at all when she's in the cot.
I dont even know what replies I'm expecting, its probably going to be one of those hateful things that we are just going to ride out but its so hard.
Last night was awful, DS woke first at 10.30 to use loo, then again at 2am.
Then DD woke as DH was putting DS back into bed. She screamed her head off so DH took her into our room. Got her into bed beside us and although her eyes were closed she wouldn't settle to go over to sleep.
After 1 hour, I took her out of our bed and back to cot, tried shush pat for about another half hour.
DH then took over for about an hour. In the meantime DS had fallen back to sleep but then was woken again as DH tried to keep DD quiet.
I gave up at this point, took her downstairs to sitting room, got her settled, gave her a drink and she eventually slept at about 5am.
Sometimes milk will help her go back over to sleep but other times, not.
Sorry this is long and boring but I genuinely feel like a zombie today and a bit low about it all.
I work full time and thankfully not in the health service or anything like that because just had to be 'spoken to' about a number of mistakes I've made recently. Doesn't help that I've been covering someone else's desk as well as my own, on top of the exhaustion, but didn't even have then energy to give these excuses. Just apologised and that was it.
When are we going to see light at the end of the tunnel??!