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DD is 22 months & still wakes 2-3 times a night, it's killing me, HELP

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SpookyDooooo · 27/10/2007 13:03

I am at my wits end i have tried so many things but dd just keeps waking up through the night so far i have done these -

Kept her awake all day, no nap to see if this would work, she woke 3 times that night.

Put her to bed later than her usual 6.30pm bed time, she still wakes.

Ignored her, she then becomes destructive, takes of her pj's & throws her nappy onto the floor, sits the naked.

No bottle given when woken up, a bottle with water no milk.

Sleeping bag thing in case she is cold, worked for 2 nights has not worked since.

Always leave hall light on as she is scared of the dark, once we worked this out she actually started sleeping through the night for about a week, after that back to old ways even know light still on.

Kept her in a very strict routine, still wakes.

When she has woken at about 11pm taken her out of bed to sit with us for 30 mins to an hr, she still got up.

Tried Medised, horlicks all sorts.

It is killing me i find her the most demanding child ever, i get up 3 times every night mostly sometimes twice, then she is up again at 6am shouting & bellowing from her cot, she is loud, screams, shouts & seems frustrated.

What the hell can i do i am exhausted & would love a whole nights sleep with no getting up, dp did it last night but there is just no point, he does not hear her so i wake & nudge him but then i am awake anyway, she got up twice for him last night.

I really am at the end of my tether, i feel like giving up & running away

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CarGirl · 30/10/2007 20:03

has she always gone to sleep so quickly or is this a new thing? Wondering if she is just confused and shattered from the clock change?

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SpookyDooooo · 30/10/2007 20:05

Always bee good at going to sleep, never had a problem there she is always asleep wihtin 15 min max but mostly 10 mins after being put in her cot.

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SpookyDooooo · 30/10/2007 20:06

She was shattered tonight though but she lasted well

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GColdtimer · 31/10/2007 09:32

How was your night spooky? DD did really well last night, 7.15 until 5.45, a bottle of milk and back until 7! I am sending you good sleep vibes from the twofalls household.

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SpookyDooooo · 31/10/2007 11:12

twofalls - Glad you had a good night isn't it nice when you get a good nights sleep?

Well it was not dd last night it was me i was up in the night with D&V felt so so ill, was over heating & felt terrible.

DD did wake but i wqs already up being sick & sitting on the toilet i think i might have woken her, i did however go on reassure her & then decided to sleep in her oom on a matress as i was feeling so ill & did not want to get into bed with dp & give him what i have, i was also feeling terribly hot & needed space.

So all was ok apart from me being ill.

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GColdtimer · 31/10/2007 11:29

Oh you poor thing! You get to the end of your tether and something else hits you. I had that when dd was 5 weeks old, it was absolutely awful having to look after her when I felt so ill.

I hope you feel better soon. Sounds like you need to embrace cbeebies as part of your life today and get under a duvet.

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SpookyDooooo · 31/10/2007 12:17

Thanks twofalls, am sitting on the sofa with a duvet, have done some wahsing & hoovering but stomach feels delicate, dd is a bit miserable today, keeps screaming, just gone down for nap cried a bit but silence at the moment we will see

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omeN666 · 31/10/2007 20:08

spooky really feel for you..have had horrendous couple of nights..dd1 has been waking loads and I have been trying to soothe her to sleep without milk..not so good....she has been refusing to sleep and waking 4 or 5 times a night.

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SpookyDooooo · 31/10/2007 20:26

Oh blimey Nemo isn't it awful 4-5 times that must be hard, it's ok trying to get through the night, but it's the next day when you have to get up ready, sort kids, do school run, shopping, cleaning,washing,dinner all bloody sorts, if we could go back to sleep it would be fine but there is no time for that so no catching up, just plain suffering

Dd has been a bit grumpy today but not to bad, ds has now been playing up at bedtime & his behaviourer has been bad after school, he is mega over tired but wont go to bloody sleep at, he is fighting it. AHHHHHHH

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omeN666 · 31/10/2007 20:31

have similair probs with ds, he is only in nursery of a morning but in the afternoon he is unbearable, hyper with being over tired etc. The surprising thing with dd1 is that she is lovely and placid and you wouldnt think she had hardly slept it is just the night time.

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SpookyDooooo · 31/10/2007 21:29

Ds is now in full-time school so i think it stems from that, how is your dd2 doing, how old is she now?

So you have all 3 children everyday every afternoon altogether? now that would drive me to drink

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GColdtimer · 01/11/2007 09:30

Nemo, that is awful, I really feel for you. We were going through this a while ago. And I only have one to deal with. It has got better though, 6.45 till 6.15 last night, I think that is a first for us actually, she has never done that before. Sympathies to you.

And spooky, hope you feel better.

omeN666 · 01/11/2007 09:39

Spooky dd2 is nearly 10mths now and yes having the 3 does sometimes make me feel like taking up a bottle of wine and passing out on the couch..pmsl Worst is there have been a couple of times when I am that tired my eyes are shutting and the dc are all playing around me..lol Last night had a fab night last night...DD1 went to bed at 7.45pm, only woke at 1pm which I think was due to dd2 crying, then slept through until 6.25am which is amazing..lol

How did everyone else do???

Egg · 01/11/2007 10:05

Hi girls, gosh I am so not looking forward to having three children to get to sleep. Spooky sorry you have been sick, hope you are feeling better. DS managed not to wake at 5:30/5:45 for first time since Sunday, and in fact was quiet all night last night until DH accidentally woke him crashing around in the bathroom at 6:10. I got 8 hours unbroken sleep . He is much happier this morning and so am I.

ScoobyDooooo · 01/11/2007 19:16

Hello all feeling a bit better today, managed to strip beds, clean bathroom, floors etc & get on top of washing, phew.

Dd woke once last night not sure what time as i did not have a clock near me & seem to have lost my watch, i think it was about 3am, she did not settle back like she does most of the time, so i gave in after about 30 mins & slept on the matress in her room, but moved it away from her cot, she settled in the end, think she was feeling restless cause she could not stop moving around her cot.

She is however doing well despite the odd wake, i am getting more sleep than normal, i feel alot better for it, she was waking more like 3 times a night, it was driving me insane i can do once or none would be better hopefully we will get there in the end.

She lasted till 6.50pm tonight but skipped her nap today, i did try but she did not want to sleep so i got her back up, she did sleep on the way back from town for about 15 mins though.

Glad everyone seems to of had a good night, it does help when only getting up once or not at all, i feel i can take on the world

Here's hoping for a good night for us all tonight

ScoobyDooooo · 01/11/2007 19:18

Egg, don't panic about having 3 to get to sleep, it's all about the routine, you always expect to have broken sleep for the first few months anyway as thats what babies do, it's when they are at an age where you expect them to sleep through & they don't it starts to kill you i think

Egg · 01/11/2007 19:41

Very true! I remember it was ok for the first three months or so, but it got worse and worse and reached a peak at about 5/6 months. In fact it was 6 months as I remember staying at the inlaws for the Aug bank hols when DS was just over 6 months and it was the worst weekend EVER as he woke about 400 times a night, took about 2 hours to even go to sleep each night, and i had my bloody lovely MIL watching over my every move, making "useful" comments. Grrrrr.

Good luck for tonight!

GColdtimer · 02/11/2007 12:49

Hope you all had good nights. I had a rude awakening at 4, she asked for milk but I gave her water out of a bottle which seemed to settle her, then up at 6.30.

Scooby, have you stopped the bottles or have you just changed your bedtime routine? DD is so reliant on her cuddle with her bottle in then nursery in the dark, just before bed, I am not sure how I am ever go to change it. I think it might hold the key to her nighttime wakings though.

CarGirl · 04/11/2007 13:23

How's it all going for you sleep deprived mums, I've not been around much for the last few days?

ScoobyDooooo · 07/11/2007 19:07

Hello everyone, sorry for not coming back for a while, i needed a break from the whole sleep thing as it was driving me mad thinking about it.

Well over the weekend dp done friday & saturday night & she woke up once through both nights, he gave her a bottle then sunday night she woke once for me, she did however go back to sleep, monday again she woke once & last night she did not wake at all she slept through till about 5.30am she played in her cot till about 6.45am then i got up.

Her sleep has been alot better & when waking she is not automatically screaming she is just whinging i try to go in before she works herself up which seems to be working.

I am however suffering a bit but there is another thread on that.

How is everyone else doing?

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