Sleep.. or lack of

Ella just turned 17 months and I really hope I'm not alone in saying that she doesn't sleep very well during the night.. it seems like every week/couple of weeks, there are a few days that she will sleep pretty well, but mostly she wakes up once or twice (or more). Most of the time I think it's teething, but I give her pamol and cuddles and whatever else it takes to settle her back to sleep if I think she's in pain.. so she will settle and then about 10 mins later wake up again.. and so on - goes on for an hour and a half sometimes, at around 3am..

I know there probably isn't an answer but just wanted some support as I feel like on the days she is waking like this. I really shouldn't complain, she is a gorgeous, intelligent little thing - it's just the sleep deprevation that gets to me!

Thanks for letting me vent :)

Kat

I'm having problems getting Jake to sleep at the moment.   It's really hard listening to him cry, knowing that his world has turned upside down the past month....no more daddy ( who was his primary caregiver), lots of new faces, a strange bed, four hours difference, and daylight lasting until 9pm. I feel like "mean mum". It's horrible huh!

I can sooo relate! And the most frustrating thing is knowing that they are CAPABLE of sleeping thru, and CAN sleep thru, but DON'T!

I don't really have any advice, just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone!

Arghhhh Hannah has woken at 11pm the last 3 nights and has refused to go back to sleep the last 2 so has ended up sleeping with me. I say no more! (But I feel so sorry for her because she is sick. I know I feel like crap so she must feel pretty awful as well)

Tonight I will give her a good dose of Dimetapp and hopefully that'll knock her out

i wrote a reply ot this last night but got logged out and could be bothered signing back in.

Paris cries out in her sleep alot but isn't always awake - just loud enough to wake me! still she ends up in our bed sometimes. i think at about 17/18 months they go like that anyway... cos paris did it too - while i was preg and couldn't be bothered going to resettle like i usually did. so she spent a fair amount of time in our bed instead, especially during the last few months when i could get out of bed cos of the pain - i would just get mike to go get her if she started crying out otherwise it would be every 10 mins, and i couldn't get up to see to her, and there's only so many times i could wake mike before he got a bit pissed with me... so he'd get her the first time and that was that.

hope things get better for you - hopefully it will pass. it did for us for the most part. maybe it's something with their age.

yeah same, paris stopped once ayja arrived.