I'm loosing my ability to cope with the constant waking in the night and was hoping you lovely people would have advice.
I have a nonverbal 2 year old, with a learning disability. He understands small things e.g. want water.
He wakes around 6-8 times a night, every night. At least 2x a week, he will be up around 2 hours in the night. He will want to get up and play during this time. I do let him whilst I doze in his room.
When he wakes up, he uses this very awful and now triggering scream/moaning noise until I go in. Sometimes he'll then continue with a sharp burst of the noise every ten minutes or so even if I'm in there with him and think I've got him settled again, he's not really.
He also likes to bury his hands and feet under me, or a pillow. He'll fidget constantly until he feels they're in the right place sometimes taking his hand in and out upwards of thirty times.
He's very fidgety normally but at night time it's extreme. I can only describe it as one of those dolls that you knock over and they bounce back up. That's what he's like all over his bed at night.
I'm constantly exhausted. I can't remember the last time I got a night of uninterrupted sleep and really need something to change.
What sleep strategies do you have with your little ones and does anyone recognise this behaviour?