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Lockdown change in sleep?

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booklover164 · 13/04/2020 21:45

Now my DS has never been a great sleeper but it had got better the past few months.

Since lockdown/clocks going forward, 20 mo has been an absolute nightmare when going to bed. He bangs his head on the wall, screams and generally refuses to go to sleep. A couple of nights ago, DH and I decided to bring him downstairs ( we've never really done this) as the head banging was just horrible. He won't go to sleep until at least 9.30pm ( it used to be 6.45) and the other day day it was 12.30!! He just doesn't seem tired at all.

He has a nap between 12.30-2 and I don't think he ( or I am) is ready to drop that nap yet as he's only just gone to 1. He's knackered by the time it gets to 12.30. He gets up between 5-6am.

Is this a developmental leap? The clocks? Result of lockdown? I'm so exhausted with it and finding it hard not getting a break from him ( 11 weeks pregnant and knackered!)

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justanotherparent1810 · 14/04/2020 20:50

I’m having a similar experience, dd is 15 months, she is currently screaming and I’m just trying to ignore her in hopes she goes to sleep, she normally falls asleep at 7 but last night I gave up at 10 and took her into my bed, she eventually fell asleep at 12 and took her back to her own but then she was wide awake at 5:30 like usual. She’s also not really napping or if she does it’s not at her usual nap time and either way longer or way shorter than normal. I feel bad leaving her to scream but I can’t give in

Mummysarah12 · 16/04/2020 21:53

I have had exactly the same problem with my 1 year old. Since the clock change she has been fighting both her nap & nighttime sleep it’s driving me insane. She settles eventually but it takes hours & it has become such a mentally draining effort I dread sleep time every day. I don’t know if I’m just not stimulating her enough during the day now we are in lockdown as she just doesn’t seem tired enough...

justanotherparent1810 · 17/04/2020 10:50

Mummysarah12 I worry I’m not stimulating her enough, she’s used to spending 4 days a week with my step-mum is a childminder so she’s constantly surrounded by people and now she’s stuck in a little flat with me

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