Hi all. As the subject suggests, my 15 month old won’t sleep through. It’s absolute hell and I’m at my wits end.
I’m blaming myself. He stayed in our bedroom longer than his brother and sister because he was having to go into either his brother or sisters room. I couldn’t trust then 3 year old DS to be in a room with him and 6 year old DD is a really light sleeper so it seemed obvious to keep him in our room.
When he did move into DS room, when he woke in the night I would rush in and settle him back to sleep so as to not wake DS. As no one wants a 3 year old up at 2am.
We then moved house where he has his own room and I through we’d crack the night wake ups but it’s taken a turn for the worse. Literally the day we moved in it escalated. He doesn’t want to be put down awake so have to get him really sleepy.. which is progress because a few weeks ago he had to be literally fast asleep for me to put him down. But then he wakes up after 3 hours initial sleep crying and can usually pop his dummy in. But then come 1-2am he’s screaming the house down every 45 mins to an hour. Not just protesting, he’s really going for it, trying to get out of the cot. Very distressed. I’ve been putting him in our bed just to get some sleep but even that’s not working now as he’s not properly asleep and fidgeting or pulling my hair. If I try and put him back thinking he’s asleep he kicks off as soon as I’ve walked into his room.
I put him in his pushchair and slept on the sofa from 3-6 this morning because I just needed to sleep.
We tried leaving him to self settle and cry it out but I think it made him worse to be honest.
Can anyone help? I’m beyond tired and totally at my wits end. Have to get up at 6am every day and function like a human 😭