For the past 4 months my 16mo DD has been waking at 5-5:30am screaming her head off. We leave her for 15 mins to see if she resettles but she never does and we take her down for milk etc. she sleeps through until 5am usually since 12 months old
she’s clearly still tired but I don’t know what to fix this. She’s rubbing her eyes and yawning from 7am but we usually have to get ready for work/childcare.
I have a almost 4yo DS who had the exact same problem and we never got to the bottom of it and he has only just started until 6:30/7 but with DD crying her head off he now wakes around the same time so we have two tired grumpy children every weekend.
any tips??
her routine:
5/5:30 wake up
12pm nap (either 1.5-2hrs)
7pm bed
her room is dark, around 18/19 degrees and she has white noise on.
I try to go to bed at 10pm to compensate but DS has also recently started waking at 12am/1am wanting me to sleep in his bed so I do just to avoid whinging in the middle of the night but of course I end up finding it hard to get back to sleep. The broken sleep and lack of sleep is killing me. I often work until 9pm so rarely get any me time anymore and I’m becoming a shit grumpy mum. For example this morning I took them both downstairs and told them they could play together and I would sit on the sofa and not play with them because it’s too early. DH and I alternate mornings with them but I can’t get any sleep because they both make so much noise. DS is also perpetually defiant so it’s all feeling soul destroying at the moment. Sorry for the rant. I just hate how awful the lack of sleep is and can’t for the life of me figure out how to make it better.
the rare occasions she does sleep later, DS also sleeps later and it’s great. I just don’t know how to make it happen every day.