sleep

[claw3]

Just settled ds back to sleep, but now im wide awake.

How do you other mums with difficult sleepers, manage your sleep?

Right im off to count sheep, if dp is snoring i will scream [shattered face]

I admit, last night i KNEW DD wouldn't sleep well (she had no nap and fell asleep at 5.45 without dinner), I knew I couldn't keep getting up all night and then get up v early with her so DH got up with her a few times and now I am up at 6am with her while he catches a few hours sleep..we have to juggle and take turns.

i dont, i end up being awake for a few hours, tried reading a book etc but inevitably dont get back to sleep till about 10 mins before ds decides to wake up again!
i even wake regularly on the one night he stays with gran, now thats really annoying!!!!

for those of you in Scotland, do you know about sleep scotland?
www.sleepscotland.org

sleep \I forgot what that is when ds does settle I cant as am waiting for him to wake again think i average 3 -4 hrs a night if im lucky

Have an appointment with Sleep Scotland on 26th. From what i have heard they will go down the "crying it out" route though, which I don't want to do...

We had a bad week last week, dd2 woke earlier each night (started at 2am and by the end of the week was waking at 10.30pm). I sleep on the sofa with dd2 next to me (in a toddler bed), when she wakes up she will only settle on the sofa so i eventually go upstairs with dh (if i can), DH is also a snorer so i find it hard to get back to sleep. Following the bad week she did manage to sleep through on thursday (first time ever) but i think this was due to her being so tired after waking so early the night before.

She will sleep better next week as we are on holiday and she will have her own bed (with a big be guard on so she cant get out ).

I dont know anything about them Fanjo so not sure what they will advise. Any news yet?

No- GP said on Wednesday that she would chase it up, and I believe her, but still nothing.

DD is really ill today too, so am worrying even more..been up at out of hours Dr with her, they were concerned too.

oh no whats up?

Isn't it strange that DLA for being up in the night every night is about £20 per week?

I used to earn that in one hour tutoring and it didn't almost destroy my mental and physical health and / or relationship

good point

Claw to be honest, I think that you get to a point where you are so chronically sleep deprived that you don't realise that you are, IYSWIM

DD1 has melatonin, so that gives us vital battery re-charging time in the evening. Then she tends to wake any time between 00.00 and 03.00. It depends on whether we can get through to her and settle her while she is still sleepy, as to how the rest of the night will go.

She wakes around 05.30 every morning anyway. It is seriously demoralising when you know that she will be waking for the day and you've barely been asleep.

I was mildly concerned when i first realised that if i cure DDs sleep problems we would get less DLA..then I realised I'd pay a lot more than that for some decent sleep.

cant put a price on a good nights sleep

Those with sleepless dc do you ever wonder how much more progress they might make if they cracked it and slept? Happier and less likely to be tantrumy and generally more able to take things in or not?

I know I could do so much more but I am an old gimmer and I need some rest in order to cope with the demands of having a child with SN.

yeah i'd happily lose the £20 to get a guaranteed sleep every night, actually i'd probably pay more than that!

it's muscle spasms that wake up ds so Sleep Scotland would be no use im afraid, medication is the only thing that helps but we are working our way through them all!

on the more positive side, ds eats better when he doesnt sleep...every cloud eh!

Oh yes, I would give....quite a lot to have a week of decent sleeps. Haven't had more than a handful of decent sleeps in 4.6 years.

It is isn't it, that the £20 is at least 20 minutes at night? No bonus for those of us who are dealing with dc every two hours throughout on a very good night or awake for three or four hour stretches in the early hours and then have to rise at five or six with the energetic beloved dc

Agree with pp I'd give all the DLA back if I could sleep.

one week of sedation medication from the doctor every 3 months so at least one out of 7 nights I sleep...as you can see this is not one of them...hence name !
I will only give sleep medication to ds if really distressed as ds with stay awake in dark for hours with hands over ears saying what's the noise.

A weighted blanket arrived for ds and this night is his first night trying it....ds is asleep now fingers crossed

Same as glittery it's pain for ds that wakes him then takes while to settle him and he's always woke by5.30 but then only now at 7 dd has started lid on past 6am she's just morning person

parents on a shift system really helped us

having a mattress or heap of cushions in the totally childproofed room where wakeful child wanted to be, so parent on duty could at least doze

not actually adding up how many nights a week one was awake for four hours of until the child had gone beyond that phase, and one could look back in astonishment...

co-sleeping until child was regularly sleeping through the night (mattress for child next to mattress for parent(s) can work well) so that the time between child stirring and parents trying to settle them back down is minimised

Have been co-sleeping for 6 years. Ds has just gone into his own bed in another room. He just cant keep still long enough to fall asleep.

Want2sleep, please let me know how you got on with blanket?

My DLA claim for night time was rejected because they thought i was exaggerating how little he sleeps!