Help toddler awake for hours in night
So my toddler has been a bad sleeper since he was a baby, but even when he doesn't nap he sleeps at 7pm and wakes up at 3am and is awake till 6-7am. Or if he naps then he sleeps at 10-11pm and then wakes up at 3am.
I have a baby as well and then she's up for hours and wants feeding for hours until he's asleep and she can sleep. In the day time she also doesn't get to sleep cuz he keeps waking her up. I feel so defeated, my health is so bad. I am exhausted and I don't know what to do.
Anyone in the same boat or can share tips? It wasn't always like this but last couple of months especially.
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So we have just been through this with our little boy. He would wake up at about 1am for 3 hours! We would just keep walking him back to bed over and over. He has a gate on his room and he would be stood at it screaming.. Eventually we got to a point where he would go back to bed and stay there but then it switched to him waking every 2 hours or so and standing at his gate screaming until we walked him back.
Bedtime has been an issue too. We do the whole routine and he just gets out of bed and bangs at his gate. This bit we are still working on. Sometimes he will get back into bed and go to sleep on the first try but other times it can be 10 times!!
I think it is a phase which is partly developmental but also amplified by life events. We just had another baby a few weeks before it started, he started nursery, got a new bed and potty trained.
It has been so horrible and soul destroying so I really feel you. Just keep being persistent and you'll get through it. I hope it passes for you soon.
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