I'm on my knees with dd who turned 3 in the summer. She was an awful sleeper as a baby, woke pretty much every two hours until she was 13 months then we had a blissful year or so of her sleeping through and going to bed easily (albeit waking at 5.30) but the past few months she's been taking forever to get to sleep, waking on average 3 times a night and then waking really early - today she woke at 4.50am!
Atm we're at the point where someone has to stay in her room until she is asleep. I HATE this. Admittedly I'm completely resentful I have to do this when I had over a year of her falling asleep by herself.
Then she wakes. Averagely it's around 11 am, 3am and 5 am. She just won't stop crying and asking for me or DP to come into her room. Again, she won't go back to sleep unless we stay in her room. Then she wakes early.
I can't cope anymore. I'm 29 weeks pregnant, still suffering with morning sickness and pelvic girdle pain which is progressively getting worse (I could barely walk last night) so I can no longer lie down with her in her bed as I can't get up without waking her and I'm now having the same trouble sitting/lying on the floor. DP does what he can but he has to get up at 5.30am and drive 1.5 hours to work so it's not safe for him to be getting up all the time.
She's at nursery Mon-weds and instead of doing the things I was hoping to do during that time, I'm just sitting at home shattered.
I have no idea why she is waking. In the past eczema has been a problem, and whilst she has broken out again, she's not waking and scratching. She occasionally says she is scared but won't/can't say of what.
Any advice? I'm on the verge of making her sleep in the shed obviously not really but I'm getting desperate now