My son is 10 months old and THE worse sleeper you will ever meet. He’s awake every 20-30 minutes all day and all night.
I’ve done everything I can think of. Tonight he went down at 9pm (having screamed hysterically out of tiredness since 7.30pm, wouldn’t give in a go to sleep, made himself sick twice from screaming) slept until 9.45pm, awake until 11pm, fell back to sleep in my arms at 11.30pm, put him in bed with us, I woke at 12.20 to him poking me in the eye shouting ‘dada’. Settled him back off at 1.45am where I had the grand total of 18 mins sleep before he’s awake again. He gave me 30 mins and we’ve been up since 3am. Doesn’t matter if he’s in bed with me, in his cot (the other side of my room, we’re a blended family of 6 kids), in the car, pram. The kid doesn’t sleep.
He’s so high maintenance in the day too, that if I could just get 4 hours I’d feel refreshed ready to take on the day, but he’s so full on - he’s walking, climbing, into everything, just being a mischievous toddler, but I’m so exhausted I’m not enjoying it one bit.
I’ve tried sleep training, but it just means me sat by his cot all night. He screams that much for that long, he’ll make himself sick. Twice this week I’ve had my dd (9) & sd (7) sobbing out of tiredness as he’s screaming all night, begging me to make him stop screaming.
He will go to sleep by himself, no issue, but won’t sleep any longer than 40 minutes (at the absolute maximum). It’s affecting my mental health, my relationship with my husband and the other kids as I’m snappy.
If anyone can suggest anything, even to make him sleep an hour in a block, I’d be eternally grateful!