Bloody sodding tantrums at 4.30am AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH

[frazzledgirl]

Sorry to sound so angry, but I am so exhausted I feel sick.

DS is 21 months. After sleep training, has slept through 8pm-6am-ish for a year.

Last few weeks, has frequently either refused to go to sleep or woken up in the night and made a huge fuss about settling again.

Three times in last two weeks (inc today) I've been awake since 3.30am/4.30am. Saturday night we had a night out with friends planned, but DH stuck at home till screeching DS went to sleep at 9.30pm.

PUPD doesn't work. Picking him up and patting him works eventually (know we shouldn't but we're desperate) but he wakes up as soon as put down.

Leaving him to scream shreds the nerves, also v antisocial as we're in a flat.

Had to wake DS at 7.30am to get to nursery and he's whining because he's tired (ha!). Have day of work ahead of me and want to cry. Any advice appreciated.

Teeth? Have you tried a bit of calpol?

Sympathies - 4:30 is a horrid time to be woken by screams

DH did try Calpol at 5-ish, but DS didn't sleep till nearly 6am.

When I went in at 4.45am he waved me away and called for Daddy. That, and the fact that he woke up at 12.30am and went straight back down, and still sleeps through perfectly well on other nights, makes me suspect he just wakes up and fancies a cuddle/pat.

Feel horrible about how utterly p*ssed off I am with him. I know so many people on this board have it so much worse, but it's a shock to the system after the sheer relief of getting past the first few months and getting used to a bit of sleep again...

Hunger. You and him. Give him a biscuit/ricecake/milk/something dull. And eat a biscuit yourself.

That being woken-from-the-middle-of-a-deep-sleep is the worst. Dd seems to do one at 11ish where I quite honestly don't know what;s going on half the time... (hallucinating all sorts - thought my parents were there the other night )