I need some advice.. even if it’s just telling me to hang in there and my DD will start sleeping again soon..
In the last couple of weeks, DD has started refusing bedtime.. she is 23 months old. My DP works 4 evenings a week so bedtime is down to me so he does bedtime 3 nights a week (I have a gym class one night and I’m home the other two, just go for a shower for a wind down). Every time he does bedtime, he just lets DD fall asleep on the sofa then takes her up to bed once she’s in a deeper sleep. I always use to put DD awake and she’d go off to sleep just fine until lately. She screams and cries as soon as I lay her down, which means I have to go and get her as she won’t just self soothe and then sleep.. so now I also have to wait until she falls asleep on the sofa whilst cuddling me.. it’s getting worse though as she doesn’t even seem tired. Her ‘bedtime’ is now roughly 9pm and she just won’t relax. I’m trying to stay calm so she does too but she wants to jump around, kick me, sing and talk. Once she does go to sleep, she ends up waking anytime from midnight to 5am where I just bring her into my bed because honestly, I am just so unbelievably tired that I don’t have the energy to try and settle her back into her own bed. She sleeps for about 1 hour and 20 mins in the day at nursery and sleeps no later than 2pm. Whilst I love my DD with all my heart, I am feeling extremely burnt out. I just want to cry. I just need some good sleep, I fall asleep at my desk at work (eyes keep closing and I wake up to my head flopping where have nodded off) please tell me this is just a regression and DD will soon go back to sleeping well? She’s had a couple of regressions before that have been hell but she’s always snapped out of them and gone back to sleeping so well.. just need to chat with those who have been through / going through something similar!