Sleep Regression? HELP

It’s currently 4am and I’m back sitting on the floor and I am just so fed up!

This was me for 3 weeks, i ended up slowly compromising with him by saying mummy needs to havr shower be back in 5 mins an leaving the bedroom door open. Usually he is asleep by the time im done but if not i just go in there an explain im just outside the door.. this didnt work straight away, i had 3 weeks of sleeping on his floor but it waa just getting too much i had to try soemthing!

Even me just saying i’m leaving causes an absolute meltdown, let alone me actually leaving! He has genuinely never been like this before so I am at an absolute loss xx

This is normal! I have a 2.5 year old and we are now on week 10 😭 we have tried everything too. We did the whole don’t talk to him and put him back in his bed and he would get sooo upset, it was stressing me out and all of us out. I had to get in contact with the health visitor and she said to make a bed on his floor and lay with him all night 🙄 which isn’t ideal but apparently it will help and he will eventually learn to sleep through again I hope 🤞 xx

Thank you for this! I honestly feel like knowing i’m not on my own in this makes me feel better!
I’m sorry you’re experiencing this aswell, I feel you xx

We’re experiencing similar over here too atm, waking up 1-2 times in the night and crying and then painfully early (5am ish) and SCREAMING because we aren’t there. I’m 38 weeks pregnant and absolutely exhausted and also terrified about how I’m going to cope once this baby arrives any day now 🥲

no problem. Reading all these posts makes me feel at ease that I’m not the only one going through it. Not that I wish this on any of you, it makes it a little easier. It’s even more harder when my little boy from day one use to go to bed at 7.30 without me being in there, it would take like 15 mins and he would self soothe himself to sleep, he then Would sleep all the way through til like 7.30/8.00. I just knew it was too good to be true and now it’s like 8.10 before he even gets to sleep with me in his room and he will wake at like 1.30 and then it takes about 30 mins for hi. To settle down again whilst I’m sleeping all night on the floor bed 🙄😭 honestly give me the newborn stage any day. Xx

oh my god I could have written that myself! My son was and is now exactly the same! Xx

Exactly the same here 😭 twice a night she’s up at least crying, and she’s inconsolable when we leave her room when she was really good at self soothing before. Hoping it doesn’t last too long 🤞🏼

it’s so hard isn’t it. I’m on week 10 😭 I really need this to end soon. I feel like staying in his room is a complete backwards step but the health visitor seems to think it will work 🙄 but when xx

I feel the same! I can’t see how it will be better if I stay xx

@Sophia @Zoe have you tried getting your partner to do the bedtime? I pretended to go out one night sat in my car on the drive an my little boy went down fine for my partner. SO STRANGE cause he had meltdowns with me for 3 weeks.. So we done that a couple of times then i just slowly started leaving him for 5 mins then coming back an leaving nightlight an door open so he could hear me moving around in my room 🤣 but my little one is still in a cot?!

yes I have! Same, if not worse, result!

it’s the opposite with us, my son won’t listen to my husband and gets all excited and full of energy when he’s around, we have to pretend he goes to work so I have to do all of the bedtime routine 🙄 which isn’t ideal but it’s much easier. We do take it in turn tho at night if sleeping in his room. I have done the whole standing by the door and it seemed to work for a little while but now he wants us with him. I might try it again and see how it goes. Yeah I wish we kept our son in a cot for at least another 6 mnths 🙈🙄. He was climbing out tho and he hit his head a couple of times so it was dangerous. I think I’m going to try the going back on after 5 mins xx

I bought a nightlight aswell that done the all singing an dancing dinosaurs an planets different colours.. so now when we go to bed i say what colour do you want on an it distracts him from his crying it seemed to of worked! I hope something works for you guys!!!

my son has had a night projector and music since he was teeny and still like to have it xx

Guys our little one is waking up every hour 🙈
We’ve paid for a sleep expert but it hasn’t helped the nights.
We had screaming which has calmed down but no idea what the regular wake ups are!
We are dying to have just 1-2 wake ups lol so be grateful you aren’t in our boat I’d say 😆🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️really hope things get better once baby is here!!
Boobs prepares us for this ! 🙈

I really don’t think it’s a competition of who’s having a worse time. We’re all in the trenches just supporting each other.

thanks for your reply but I wasn’t suggesting it’s a competition.
I’m hoping things get better for everyone and I did suggest this to the lady I was talking to who’s expecting..
Just giving my opinion as everyone else does on here , and what I’ve had in reply to when I’ve posted on these chats.

didn’t mean to offend, was just offering up my experience of similar behaviour at night time to the poster. It isn’t a competition and I’m sorry you’re struggling. Can’t say it’s exactly easy either being up twice a night with my toddler and then starting the day at 5am at 38 weeks pregnant, alongside all the other usual heavily pregnant symptoms and still working 20 hours per week.😵‍💫 You are not the only one having a little bit of a difficult time!

I’m not offended by the conversation at all, just don’t appreciate being told I should “be grateful” that we aren’t experiencing what someone else is experiencing.

I just don’t think we should reduce it down to who is having a better or worse time, simply because everyone’s tolerances are different.

Wow you guys are obviously letting sleep deprivation get the better of you by coming across like that to me … easy to be a bully behind a screen obviously and gang up towards someone who maybe hasn’t said the correct terminology. I was being light hearted in my post and explaining my experience, just like others very much do!
Maybe we should all keep our opinions to ourselves in the future in that case!
Forums are supposed to be somewhere we can all escape to..

I don’t think someone disagreeing with you or explaining why something you said upset them makes them a bully.

That’s a little unfair to call me a bully. You singled me out in the comments and whilst I understood the tone of your comment, it still wasn’t nice to be told to be grateful, insinuating that you’re having a worse time. Even still, I replied explaining my intention was not to offend anyone and also apologised that you were having a hard time too. I agree, forums are supposed to be where we can all escape and share our experiences, so please don’t belittle other peoples experiences☹️ I would never wish to make another mum feel like they can’t share their experience, it’s hard enough being a mum as it is. X

Anyone still going through this lol?! Im still a walking zombie 🤣

It did stop! I promise it gets better! I think it took 2 months xx