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16 month old wont sleep

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Sleepisnonexistant · 11/01/2024 14:59

I dont know where to turn and hoping someone may have some advice. Since my LO hit 4 months sleep has been awful. At its worst she was waking every 45 mins all night long. This went on for months and months. She was found to have a CMPA and soya allergy and since cutting these out she is marginally more settled. She still generally only sleeps for 3 hours max at a time and I can only get her to sleep by feeding and Co sleeping. Shes 16 months old now, when will it get better?!!! Getting her in to her cot is impossible, night time or naps. I'm so exhausted that I go to bed at 8 ish every night just tp try and get any sleep. And i end up in bed with her, holding her or driving the car while she naps so i never get any kind of break. My mental health is awful and I'm in a really low place at the moment. I turn down invites from friends to do anything as its impossible and the only 'break' I have is going to work in a very stressful job 3 days a week. Think I hit rock bottom this week as somehow I managed to get pregnant (even though on the pill and can count on one hand how many times me and my husband have had sex since our LO was born!!!) and I made the impossible decision to have an abortion. I feel so empty since I've done it. I would love more than one child but couldn't cope at the moment. I see mum friends I have made going out with friends, to the gym and even happily planning a second child, while I struggle to even go to the toilet or take a shower. Where am I going so wrong?! How can get her to sleep a bit more independently so I have a break? My husband is really low too and we just seem to be stuck in this groundhog day, fighting to get through every night and day together. Please tell me it will get easier soon.

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TheShellBeach · 11/01/2024 15:01

Get the book by Richard Ferber and sleep train her.

TheShellBeach · 11/01/2024 15:02

My DD started to sleep through the night by the third night of doing it.

Sleepisnonexistant · 11/01/2024 15:05

I've been so against sleep training but think I'm heading that way now. We tired insisting she slept in her cot last night and she stood and screamed in her cot for over 2 hours

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SunshineAndFizz · 11/01/2024 15:10

I have a 16 month old too and it's hard - sorry you're having such a tough time.

Seriously - sleep training. It'll take a few nights so expect to have some rubbish nights sleep initially but don't give up. Just commit and do it.

Good luck x

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