Sleep (or lack of)

I could have written this. I’ve had this since the bank holiday in August. The health advisor came and suggested that I shorten the bedtime routine and that I do the gradual retreat method. Google it - and she said when he wakes up in the night return to the pillow. They are just figuring out they are afraid of the dark/monsters/being alone so they need reassurance. I’m still in the thick of it - late bedtimes, nightly wake ups and early mornings. Let’s hope it’s a phase - it’s not sustainable

Yes! The wake ups in the night have been going on for over a month now. We've tried everything with naps too, I wonder if it's separation anxiety as she's very emotional at the moment. It's so tiring though as it takes me ages to go back to sleep!

We've been going through this with my little boy apart from it's been going on the best part of 8 months. He won't settle unless I sit in the room until he falls asleep. He wakes soo much in the night and is having bad night terrors about things like animals, numbers, puzzles that I'm having too sleep in his room every night to just try and get as much sleep as possible as I'm up soo much with him. He doesn't nap and on a very odd occasion he's had a 15 minute one in the car he's a nightmare for bedtime. Without a nap he takes 20 minutes to go to sleep for the night but is up soo much. He woke up last night screaming and crying the place down because his bed had popped. It's a normal mattress on a bed and point blank was terrified to go back to bed. It's beyond exhausting.

Oh god I’m sorry to hear that. Have you tried speaking to a health advisor or sleep Consultant?

Yes!!! This is us at the moment minus the screaming in the night. He wakes up sooo early no matter what we do 😥 This week it's been 3am so I went into the spare room with him and for the past three days he's actually been going back to sleep until 5:30-5:45am which is fine as we need to get up for work then

@Michelle yes spoken to both. My little boy is undergoing a lot of testing and is under consultants and dieticians etc and under London Children's hospital so they say it's down to that and to 'go with the flow'.

We are really struggling too. At least an hour to settle at night (usually longer) and up for 5:30-6 most mornings. We've started taking him up at 7pm instead of 7:30 because it's taking so long to settle. Usually asleep for 8:30. It's so tiring. Been happening for a few weeks now. Starting to dread bedtime

Just to add - a few months ago he'd go to bed no problem. Stayed in bed until he fell asleep.

Here we past good 10 months our son wakes up at night 2-4 times. And he will wake up at 6 AM every day on clock. We tried everything..the most it works to give cuddle, tell eveything is fine and tell that in one minut mammies is going ti her bed so good night.

Thank you everyone for replying, have seen some more similar posts, another phase which will hopefully come and go. We will hopefully sleep again soon! X

@Emma Jay this sounds so hard going, sending love to you xx