need sympathy

[StealthPolarBear]

This is the second night of 3yo DS going to bed at normal time but then lying wide awake until past 9 (i assume) intespersed with calling out and tantrumming.
8mo DD seems to have reached a point where she can only sleep for half an hour at a time before needing re-settling - she had 90 mins nap today broken up like that and then fell asleep tonight at about 7.30, waking up at 8 for another feed.
why do they both have to do this together???

Am with you on the 8mo, Stealth. ds is still shocking; back to waking every hour through the night lately. dd is thankfully ok, though she is still awake atm, saying things like "thermometer berlometer" as far as I can tell...

sorry for the winge but just been to resettle DD again, DH still in with DS, am sick of this. Apart from cleaning the kitchen etc I'd like half an hour just to switch off before bed, is that too much to ask?? I'll be up at 5 o sodding clock again

Habb, DD hasn't actually been too bad (no worse) during the night - awake onceor twice before 5. Weird. sorry youre suffering

I'll give you some. I have a pretty similar situation so I know how you're feeling. DS1 (3)is a little sod at bedtime, and wakes DS2 with his tantrums. DS2 (6mo) wakes two hourly (hourly last night - oh joy) and wakes DS1 with his yelling.

lynnie, that sounds worse, you hvae my sympathy
I console myself by the fact that by the time I'm 35 I'll more or less be getting consistently good nights sleep. I've just turned 30!
I came down before and had left the gas hob on for about an hour . Also squirted washing up liquid into the sink without putting the plug in and loaded the washing into the tumble drier, when I'll get it dried free tomorrow. I am not thinking straight!

LOL. You are doing better than me but I'm going to be more optimistic - I want this one sleeping through by 2 and no nonsense from the big'un by 5. That means I'll be 38

I know what you mean about brain not working - I tried to put the dummy into my 3yo twice yesterday. He just looked at me and said 'mummy - I'm not a baby - give it to the baby!'

Stealth, I wonder if the 8 month old thing is something to do with the 8 month sleep regression? I only ask as my DS did something similar during the 4 month sleep regression) - he'd go to sleep okay at bedtime but would wake and need resettling after about 45 mins.

I posted on here and various people said their DC suddenly started doing it at the same age but then stopped again. DS doesn't do it any more (now 5 months). Perhaps it could be the way some babies respond to developmental spurts?

Actually, looking up links to sleep regressions (here) I see that not going to sleep at bedtime can be a problem with the sleep regression around the age of 3: here.

Maybe I'm trying to attribute too much to this regression malarky, though.