Support/advice/tips needed! sleep deprived, coping at work.

[JenAT]

I am totally knackered. This thread is probably been done in the past but I'm too tired to read through all the other threads!
Is there someone out there in my position and how to you cope?
My dd is 18/12, and we have had a few weeks of very disrupted sleep. Initially she had bad gastroenteritis for 1wk which I got too, so off work for 3 days then. This week she has not slept properly for the past 4 nights, combination of teething and a nasty cough. She's not playing up as the coughing wakes her. Last night she finally dropped off to sleep at 4am. I have had 2 hours sleep and have to work a full day doing a demanding job. I feel like a zombie and liable to burst into tears at any point. I can't take time off work just because I'm tired.Dh is suffering from work stress worried about his job etc, so he isn't sleeping well either. What a mess!, at the end of my tether.

Jen - that sounds really tough. I can empathise, as I have a baby who really doesn't sleep much at all (although amazingly got a bit of a reprise last night). What I've been doing since starting back at work, is going to bed at the same time as him when I'm really knackered. So at 8pm, I'll often go to bed and then at least I'm making the most of when he is actually asleep, albeit that he wakes many times after that.

No, I don't get much housework done - the house is the mess and I get behind on washing, but I figure the sleep is more important for my sanity

Hope things get better for you

Just want you to know you are not alone. I have a 3yrs old who on occasions wake up at night and a 14 month who for the past few weeks has been sleeping very badly - particularly the last week were she has been up every hr and I still have to come in a do a stressful job, which requires immense concentration as an Analyst. Most days I feel like bursting into tears and I am struggling to cope. I've joint the thread which goes along the lines of 'if you were under the illusions that your baby will sleep through by 6 months' and some of the ladies have put some useful information on how to cope.
All I want to do right now is go to the first aid room and sleep but unfortunately as it is coming towards the end of the financial year I have to do some awful financial forecasting
sorry for any grammatical/spelling errors just to tired to be bothered to correct.

Thanks for responses. just nice to know I'm not on my own, although I wouldn't want to wish being knackered like this on anyone. Amani, will have a look on the thread you suggested, thanks