Struggling with sleep 😭

No answers but right here with you. Exhausted! And starting to get angry at night though I completely know it’s not my baby’s fault, just can’t seem to control my emotions as I’m so tired! So having to step out the nursery to catch a breath even though he’s crying 😭 I keep ending up co sleeping after multiple failed resettles

Could the wake window before bed be too long? My little one is a terrible sleeper but if he goes to bed overtired he sleeps worse and wakes up after 45 minutes.

@Jem me too, I'm starting to get angry at night and I feel so guilty as I know he doesn't understand. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

@Megan thank you, will try 2hr45/3hr wake window. He is struggling with fitting his last nap/third nap so his last wake window before bed can be quite long sometimes. It's so hard when they are like this.

It could be he's getting too much day sleep. How much total nap time does he have? Anything more than 3h is likely to impact night sleep negatively. My boys sleep up to 3h during the day split across 3 naps and then sleep 8pm to 6:30/7am. I had help from a sleep consultant because being twins when their sleep was bad I wasn't getting any, and it was horrendous as they tag teamed me taking it in turns to be awake so I literally got 1h a night broken if that!

I'm with you, I think it's really hard to know. Yesterday my little one had the most day sleep she'd had in ages, a short 2hr wake window before falling asleep for bed - and slept the best she'd ever slept 🥲 (which granted was only 2-3 hour sleeps). Not sure whether I should try replicate the same today 😂

@Steph he has 3 hrs day time sleep, recently it's been across two naps as he was refusing his last nap even with 2.5/2.45 ww. Ahh I glad you got the help, it must have been so hard with just 1 hrs sleep x

@Isabelle honestly it's so hard, when we have a "good" night I'm just trying to replicate the same routine but it never works again 😩😅

Hmm sounds like it might be a self settling issue between sleep cycles then, but I'm no expert. Might be worth checking out the lady I used as her insta is full of helpful info. She's @soundasleepguru

I’ve had the skin pulling face slapping etc the last few nights whilst rocking to sleep. I put my baby down in his cot to sort of rearrange my arms as he was getting heavy. He started to roll on to one side and shake his head like he was trying to self soothe which he’s never done before. Ever since I’ve just rocked him for about 30 seconds and put put him down. Could it be he’s trying to self settle and not actually wanting to be rocked? Could be worth trying gentle sleep training x