Can mummies get overtired too?

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You know what they say about babies being too tired to sleep? I've got it too. Ds is up at 2am and 5am and I have lost the ability to fall asleep in between. It is getting worse and I am exhausted.

Please help.

Definitely. She's not too hot or hungry either. She just wants to be with me. Which would be fine (to an extent) if she'd just go to sleep, but she doesn't. She wriggles and fidgets and whinges, and sometimes decides that she wants to go downstairs.

I've run out of ideas. Sorry.

Ha ha. Me too.

Oh god, insomnia. Evil.

Another really good tip is the yoga style "relax". Concentrate in turn on each body part, repeat the name in your head, and make that bit relax. So "left hand fingers, left wrist, left forearm, left elbow, left arm, left shoulder, neck, etc.

Or, if you are lying there thinking "I SHOULD BE ASLEEP IM SO TIRED" try to remember in minute detail a happy day, or happy event. It needs to be quite distant, so is hard, not something you did last week. So if you went for a lovely walk on holiday last year, try and remember and paint a picture in your mind, so not just we went past the reservoir, but try and remember how deep the water was, was colour the wall was, were there ducks, or geese, what wildflowers were out, when exactly the dalmation went past etc etc. Very good distraction.

pinkjenny- I am no expert on these matters as I am up to the 13 month mark of sleep-time challenges (!) but I did wonder whether you sleeping in DD's room with her for a while would help? Maybe on an air bed? Might be a good way of getting her used to her room again?

Hi
I fully sympathise.
DD 7 months is the same.
She'll go to bed about 7 and then wake up about 11 and then the dance begins.
She just want to cozy up with us.

I'm 1 month into a mix of cc (wich we find quite hard) and gradual withdrawal.
The latter works well but is haaaaaaaaaaard.
We started giving her a dummy to sleep (she never had one) but then figured she wakes up when she looses it. So do't go there!
We try and do the routine over and over again.
Cuddle - hug the teddy -pat pat pat -shush shush shush - go an come back to did it all over again without lifting her out of the bed.

It all works well until about 4 am when we just bring her into the bed and miracle she falls asleep in 10 seconds and through to the morning.

What can I say? not very helpful. But you are not on your own!

My work pattern (which suggests some sort of order!) is such that I tend to have 24 hours without sleep about once a week. And I find that easier now than 10 years ago, which I suppose is practice. DD1 is now 4, and knows what I mean when I say I'm tired and grumpy.

When I can't sleep, or have gone to bed exhausted and woken up again after 4 hours, I go and do something useful. It's probably taking years off my life, but at least I'm getting some jobs done.

Try a bed? Our waking dd went into a bed at 15mths. Not gonna say she slept through instantly ever but much, much happier - and easier to settle.