My DD slept for almost 12 hours.

[pavlovthecat]

For the first time, in so long I cannot remember

Her sleep has been particular awful since christmas jet lag threw her then she settled, but not 12 hours, then she was ill so for at last the last week she has been all over the place with her sleeping, snatching bits here and there.

I have been ill, so has DH, and I have had to run CBT groups with like 3 hours broken sleep this week. I have been so exhausted it has felt like some-one has taken my eyeballs out and stamped on them before putting them back on really short string. So goodness knows how DD has been feeling.

She went to sleep at 7:31pm and woke up for 7:15am, not a peep all night. I got my ass out of of bed to her at 7:20pm and gave her the biggest, happiest smile in the world (even though I could happily have slept for another 2 hours!) and cuddled her and told her how proud of her I was. And then I put her toadstall tent up in the front room as a treat.

Lets hope it continues.

Be warned, before it works, you will be awake between 3am and 6am for a week, watching bloody Mary Poppins, get prepared for Dick Van Dyke overdose...

Riven - how do you cope? What is her sleep pattern? DD often wakes once or twice, but will go back to sleep again with a quick pat, thats hard enough. This week she has just been awake between 2/3am and 5/6am every day not to mention not going to sleep until at least 8am, more often 10am.

Pavlov - interesting what you say, DD has only just started sleepiong again through the night after a longhaul flight in December.

Riven - oh you poor thing. This is pretty much what DD has been like for a couple of weeks...I put her to bed earlier a couple of nights and it was even worse, as like your DD she woke at 2 or 3, and then that threw her! Oh dear, I hope last night was not a one off, and that she is now changing her sleep pattern for good You must be exhausted .

Five - When we first got back from USA, it was so awful I said I would not take her on a longhaul again (in reality that is not true as our family are there so no choice about it!). It was so so tough I started to feel it was tainting our wonderful christmas as the sacrifice was so bad. She would at one point only go to sleep in our suitcase, and only then at 3:30am.

I have watched Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so many times over the last month that if I never see those DVDs again, it will be too soon. Thank God she was not bothered by Sound of Music [phew]