I feel like i'm falling to bits. I'm crying or angry so often because I am so tired. I'm struggling at work because I am so emotionally and physically drained. I'm foul to my husband and a boring whinge to my friends when it's bad....which is often.
DD is 11 months, has been a crappy sleeper from the beginning. Better periods are getting one 3 or 4 hour sleep at night and 1-2 hourly wakeups after that with a rare blissful 5 hours. Mostly she's woken up minimum 2 hourly.
She's bf and still feeds to sleep and through the night. We have co-slept for survival. She would nap anywhere but this week it's been really challenging. She doesn't always need to feed to sleep but does need rocking or to be touching me to fall asleep. We have a solid bedtime routine, eating is hit or miss and she drinks alot of water.
The last two nights I tried to put her in her cot all night. Managed it night 1 but got 3 hrs sleep myself most of which was on the floor in her room or sat in the chair. On night 2 it went well till 2am when she became hysterical so I gave up and took her to bed because I just couldn't cope.
It feels so pathetic but I just don't know what the hell to do. My husband is at home most of the time but is disabled so doing the night stuff has a huge impact on him. He does everything he can to give me breaks on my days off but I can't sleep in the day anymore.
I'm sick of bf all night, i'm fed up of not getting more than 2 hours sleep. I can't do cry it out. She is starting to walk a bit which i'm guessing is making it worse
If you've been through this, when the hell did it get better?