Anyone else have a bad sleeper? 💤

My 4.5 year old is just a terrible sleeper. She started sleeping through the night for about 2 months and is now back to waking up constantly. 12am almost and I’ve been out of bed 3 times.. going to be a long night 🫣😭

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Any advice or tips welcome!
But she has a good routine we’ve always had but girl just won’t sleep 🫣 🤣

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Is it possible that she has sleep apnea? How is she when she wakes up in the middle of the night?

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I’m sorry! I hope you get it sorted. I put mine to bed fairly late actually. If I put her to bed early, she’s getting up at the asscrack of dawn. She goes to bed anytime between 10pm-12am. Sometimes later! She’ll wake up around 10am.

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If you’re a SAHM you can try that maybe? She might be trying to just nap, and not actually do a long nights sleep

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Ever since my 2.5yo daughter started climbing out of her crib and we removed the rail she won't sleep through the night. It had been 3 months and we hoped it would be fixed before our newborn got here but she's 2 weeks old and hubby isn't sleeping through the night either because of it

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Any medical red flags like reflux, open mouth breathing or snoring, allergies, extreme restlessness while sleeping?

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Mine was the same!! She just turned 5! It eventually got better and is more steady now. But we went through exactly that and it was a pattern that repeated for like a year! We were so freaking tired!! I got her calm Mary Ruth chewable for the evenings to try and help her to stay asleep and work on it and it got better.

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Thanks ladies!
No, no medical issues we’ve been to the doctor before about her sleep and there’s no issues.

I can’t put her to sleep too late as she is at school so she needs to be up early!

She woke up 3 more times after that for various reasons!! 😂 lots of coffee today!!

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My 9 week old sleeps better than my 4.5yo! He’s always been like it 😅

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What time does she wake and what time do you put her bed? What about a magnesium supplement ? Xx

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I feel iffy about any kind of supplements!

She goes to bed at 6pm (doesn’t go to sleep until 630-45pm as we do stories, teeth etc) and she’s up between 530-6. Which works as school starts early here at 715!

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fair enough have a look at mighty kids though they have got really good reviews x

Also if waking up at 5.30/6 and no nap I’d be inclined to put to bed 6pm x could be getting overtired x

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yeah it’s a tricky one! Bedtime usually ranges from 6pm-645pm depending how tired she is and how quickly she goes to sleep!

So like tonight she was tired she was in bed and sleeping by 620pm! When she’s back at school she’s in bed at 6pm on the dot usually!

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Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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