WHY CAN'T HE GET TO SLEEP!!??!!???

[YourHandInMyHand]

I am tired. I am stubbornly refusing to lay in bed myself until my 10 yr old DS is asleep.

I have tried EVERYTHING over the years. Everything but prescriptions. I think I need to bite the bullet and go back to paediatrician.

I'm exhausted. I want an evening of chill time and for my son not to be so anxious about wanting to get to sleep. Even when he does eventually sleep I seem to just get off and he's stood over me like some spooky ghost staring at me. Then he's in my bed tossing and turning. He settles and I'm wide awake again stressing about our sleep and sanity levels.

Hope it's okay to say this but please please no one reply with "have you tried..." type posts. I have. Just needed a safe space to scream into a pillow and rant.

Oh dear, please, go ahead, rant, I know its hard, and so exhausting.

Has he always been like this, or is it a more recent thing?

I was going through the similar with my ds who is 5. I had a thread on here, and got lots of support.

I still have to sit outside his room till he is asleep, usually about 45 mins to an hour, but that is a great improvement from the problems peak.

Please do rant away I know how you feel with all the 'have you tried?' suggestions. I've had a lot of that in real life, folk on here have just shared their experience with me and told me to do whatever I can to get the most rest.

We've been having a dreadful sleep time too, the other end of the night through. Ds starts waking after midnight then starts the day at 3.30 or 4am.

We are waiting for a slow release melatonin prescription finally and I have a weighted blanket coming to try.

I have just found out ds is probably being woken by seizure activity we can't see, which gets worse when he's tired, so we are stuck in a vicious circle!

I so feel your pain. Rest is so fundamental, when you're not getting it, it affects everything

Just popping up to say I have a bad sleeper too. It's awful. I feel your pain. Scream away x

Nothing worse than sleep deprivation.

Be kind to yourself [tea]

Oh I keep doing that

sorry I didng come back, my tablet went all funny! Thanks for the supportive messages. I just want that evening wind down time amd a decent nights sleep. DS is 10, Im tired.