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Im at my wits end and Daniel is too over Wyatt's sleeping patterns.
He's 21 months next week and STILL does NOT sleep through the night and is waking up 4-5 times a night :banghead:
We give him a drink, make sure he's not wet, give the dummy, make sure he's not teething etc, make sure he's warm enough and it's STILL not good enough. He is in his toddler bed now, but that didn't change his sleeping patterns at all, he's still the same as if he were in the cot. He whinges, moans and groans or just cries.
My question is, what the hell do we do? Daniel and I are zombies and cant do this forever :( Is there light at the end of the sleep deprivation tunnel? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated! We are moving in a week so we will have to hold off on doing anything, but advice and information would be great so we can start we\hen we settle into our new house.
Signed,
Sleep Deprived and Cranky Bep
Sorry to hear that you are having a hard time. Believe it or not there will be light at the end of the no sleep tunnel. My 17month old was waking every 2 hours overnight for about three months . Finally we worked out that he was waking for the 'whole package' - coming in , cuddle , drink of water and tucking back in. We put in a night light to try and eliminate if he was scared and over a few weeks we slowly reduced each thing we did. After about 2 weeks all we had to do was open the door and he would lay straight back down and go to sleep. We are now down to one night event that lasts about 30 seconds. Hopefully it will be back to sleeping through without us having to have endured him screaming his head off or having him in our bed.
Goodluck
Pickles
you might like to have a look at the book "The No-Cry Sleep Solution" by Elizabeth Pantley. It doesn't give overnight success but it works. Good luck. :)
Thanks Cosmic. I was contemplating on buying a book like that. I may very well have to. Daniel and I are at the end of our tethers LOL!
Poor guy, I gave him toothpicks for his eyelids this morning. :gloomy:
:hugs: hugs for you all! It WILL get better, hang in there :hugs:
leebeeag
16-08-2006, 21:28
we too are havin to get up out of bed 4-5 times a night to comfort DS2.We got a night light in his room but he now gets out of his toddler bad and comes into bed with us.after about 10mins of kicking DH in the back DH goes and sleeps in the spare room.I miss my husband and if you can offer any support pls do as we're too at our wits end.
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vanillabean
16-08-2006, 21:41
Hang in there. DD is now 18 months old and most nights still wakes up. She has been doing this since 12 months old. Last week we had a breakthrough and had 2 nights where she slept through! So in total that is about 3 nights in 6 months she had slept through. The problem now is she is sick with a nasty cold and has been having trouble sleeping. There is light at the end of the tunnel and for us it happened all of a sudden. We too were so sleep deprived and getting desperate.
kadownie
16-08-2006, 22:37
No advice as I'm in the same boat- except my son is 2 next week- I am still breastfeeding him- which I think doesn't help as it's the quickest way for me to get him back to sleep and me back to sleep- I've taken to sometimes sleeping with him when I'm really tired- saves me getting up in the night. I don't really worry about it- as I'm used to it- and after all the reading I've done on sleeping and young children- I've realised that it's just a normal thing that he'll grow out of. I'm just pleased that it's only one of the twins that does it!!
I know this isn't for everybody and feel free to totally ignore me (I'm not sure if I could do this) but when my sis was 18 months she was waking 5-6 times for water. My mum always got up to her. My mum was pg with me and my dad said one night that she was not allowed to get up. After that one night my sis slept through. I'm guessing my sister didn't protest too much cause my mum would've got up to her.
melfunction
17-08-2006, 05:56
I'm soooooo over it too. This weekend, I'm going to do my best to NOT get up to a certain little boy. He has had the wood over us long enough!
Argh, he knows think that sleeping from 7pm-1pm is sufficent enough sleep and wants to play the rest of the night :banghead:
Anyone? Please help!
Fitmumma
18-08-2006, 07:42
Im at my wits end and Daniel is too over Wyatt's sleeping patterns.
He's 21 months next week and STILL does NOT sleep through the night and is waking up 4-5 times a night :banghead:
We give him a drink, make sure he's not wet, give the dummy, make sure he's not teething etc, make sure he's warm enough and it's STILL not good enough. He is in his toddler bed now, but that didn't change his sleeping patterns at all, he's still the same as if he were in the cot. He whinges, moans and groans or just cries.
My question is, what the hell do we do? Daniel and I are zombies and cant do this forever :( Is there light at the end of the sleep deprivation tunnel? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated! We are moving in a week so we will have to hold off on doing anything, but advice and information would be great so we can start we\hen we settle into our new house.
Signed,
Sleep Deprived and Cranky Bep
Our 2.5 DS is exactly the same, he sometimes wakes us like 12 times a night!!! He winges, moans, groans & cries too, he is in his own big bed in our room plus we have our 3mnth old DD in our room too so we are getting no sleep:( My DD isnt a problem & is a great little sleeper (compared to my DS at this age).
My DH is getting so grumpy (to say the least) as he is usually the one getting up to our DS & then he has to be up so early for work.
I would love to move him into his own room but I think that will make him worse beause he will probably freak out even more, I feel like there is no light at the end of our tunnel either, so I know exactly what you are going through.
I certainly can't offer any quick solutions, as I have a 3YO who still wakes 3 out of 7 nights at least once and who has always been an early riser.
After a lot of sleepless nights I have worked out she has two different waking up nights:
- the first she wakes and after a drink etc, she snuggles back in and goes back to sleep
- the second she wakes and decides she wants to come into our bed - something I am determined won't happen, and as a result I end up in her bed for a couple of hours until she is asleep again.
Can't work out why the second happens, can only hope she grows out of it.
Some things I have noticed/learnt with the first situation,
- happens when shes constipated or has worms.
- is truely unwell/thirsty
- has an ear ache (something a doc once told me), which can also be the result of teething.
Don't know if this helps, but I always think that some people are blessed with kids who sleep and some of us aren't.:sleeping:
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