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Why won't DD sleep!?!

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MrsStinkey · 06/12/2016 02:10

So DD (14 months) has decided after a good few months of sleeping normally (decent 2 hour nap in the day and 11/12 hours each night) that for the past few months she just doesn't need to sleep at night and neither does anyone else! In a desperate bid for some sleep we decided a week ago to cut out her nap in the day and she slept through for 11/12 hours again at night. Tonight through it's all started again. She's been up and down starting at about 10pm this evening after going to bed at 7pm. She's not teething or unwell and my biggest problem is that when she's up she isn't upset she just sings/shouts happily at the top of her voice. She unfortunately shares a room with DD1 (5) and it wakes her up as well. She usually gets up in drips and drabs for 5 minutes then at some point between 12/4am will be awake for 2 whole hours just generally making a noise. I've tried going into her and laying her back down telling her it's sleepy time etc but she just gets back up the second I leave the room and resumes her singing/shouting. I'm at my wits end with her and all the advice I can find applies to babies waking up upset/crying which she isn't so doesn't really apply to her. If she wasn't in the same room as DD1 I'd just leave her to it but it's not possible and it has to stop for all our sakes. What ends up happening at the moment is DD1 had to come into bed with me whilst poor DH moves to the couch. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Starting to get really depressed about it all as we are unable to move house at the moment and I feel wretched about the affect it's having in DD1. She's constantly tired and moody from being woken up all night. She's not used to it as she's always been an amazing sleeper. We desperately need some help.

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MrsStinkey · 06/12/2016 08:06

I've had roughly 4 hours of broken sleep last night and I feel like crying. DD1 didn't wake up which is a godsend. DH was nightshift last night and has just came in. I'm so jealous he'll get to go to bed and have 5/6 hours of uninterrupted sleep!

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FATEdestiny · 06/12/2016 09:40

I would bring DD2's cot into my room, next to my bed, until shes sleeping better.

Easier for you to settle her from there

Also stops dd1 from her sleep being affected.

MrsStinkey · 06/12/2016 10:29

I've thought about that FATE bit it feels like a step back and I don't know how much good it would do. I don't know if it would make her worse in the long run. She doesn't need settled really as she's never upset. Just chatting away to herself, singing and banging her feet on her cot. When I go into her she smiles at me, let's me lie her back down the Judy gets up as soon as I leave the room and starts up where she left off.

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FATEdestiny · 06/12/2016 11:53

It's not fair on your eldest though. Especially if shes at school.

How about a floor bed for your eldest in your room until youngest is sleeping better?

MrsStinkey · 06/12/2016 16:03

I know it's not fair on her and she is at school which is why on the really bad nights she gets brought into our bed. I'd rather find a way of tackling DD2 waking though than just moving one of them out the room as goodness knows when it'll stop if we don't. DD2 had a particularly bad nappy today she has food intolerances so I'm wondering if that's what was wrong last night and hoping if so we'll be back to sleeping through tonight. If anybody has been through similar and has any tips though I'd be so happy to hear them!

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