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1 year olds sleep is horrendous. I need help

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Elisabeth3468 · 30/01/2026 05:45

I am desperate . I feel like I'm being tortured. My daughter has always slept ok with bad phases but the last 3 weeks we've entered some new fresh hell.
its destroying my life, i can't work because i can just not function. I can't even walk into a room and remember why I went in.
she wakes around midnight- 1am and that's it, she's awake, till maybe 4 or 5. Then back to sleep till 6am. Then up for the day. Today she woke at 3.30am for the day and has been awake since.
she takes 1 nap a day and has since 9 months old. It's about 2-2.5 hours. She goes to bed around 7-8. I can't keep her up any longer because she's exhausted.
she used to sleep 7-6ish with one or two wakes for a feed which was fine.
she is cutting molars and already one is fully through. I've tried Calpol, ibuprofen, nothing makes a difference. Sometimes she's upset, sometimes she's just awake.
i am physically unwell because I'm getting no sleep. I keep getting infections.
I feel a shell of myself.
any advice ?

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Elisabeth3468 · 27/02/2026 00:25

Daughter's sleep has gone horrendous again. Deffo seems to be related to teething. It's absolutely destroying me. I've had 2 hours sleep in the past 48 hours and worked a 10 hour shift yesterday . How are we meant to do this????

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canuckup · 27/02/2026 03:07

Stop breastfeeding

And take your mil up on her offer

Elisabeth3468 · 27/02/2026 12:19

canuckup · 27/02/2026 03:07

Stop breastfeeding

And take your mil up on her offer

It's not the breast feeding. She doesn't even want feeding. She feeds once before bed that's it. Sometimes 1 feed in the night. She's not feeding all night and sleeps in her cot. It would be easier if I could soothe her with feeding tbh! But she doesn't want it.

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Redhorses · 27/02/2026 19:16

@Elisabeth3468 my little one was up every 2 hours crying when the molars were coming through. After that she was fine and she's back to sleeping now. She had separation anxiety for a bit but turns out she got croup which apparently really throws off their sleep for a while 🤷‍♀️. There's light at the end of the tunnel... When they are teenagers though 😂

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