Seriously, I am going to go insane. I get sleep problems, none of my 3 children sleep well, maybe the 4th actually will! None of them STTN but we have them spilt up between DH and I Â )when he isn't traveling anyway) so it isn't all me all the time.Â
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DS actually wasn't a bad sleeper as a baby, he took naps off of me, and would actually sleep. Last late winter/early spring before he was 1, he started this thing of being soo tired and going to bed only to sleep 20 minutes and be up for hours. He would do it for weeks/months and then I'd get a little break and then he'd start doing it again. Bedtime is 7 at our house for the older kids, and DS is often tired by then as well, he has to be up from a nap before 2:30 to do the whole school pick up thing. He is 20 months BTW, I've done earlier bedtimes, later ones, it doesn't matter what I do, he wakes up. Most of the time I don't even get out of the bedroom, I nurse him to sleep and then lay there waiting and he is up. No amount of trying gets him to lay back down. Prior to Oct he was actually in a going to bed and staying asleep phase. At the very beginning of Oct, he got croup and his sleep has been downhill ever since. He/I are usually up until 12am, I get up at 6am to get DD1 off to school, and then me off to work sometimes (I work very part time). I am so behind on my paperwork, I use evening hours to do a lot of it. He doesn't have the option of sleeping in most mornings, so I have to wake up him.
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Now he is doing the same thing for naps, cat napping and then crying all afternoon, literally. He was done by 7 so I went upstairs with him, by 7:25 he was up again. I flat out refused to get up thinking he would eventually go back to sleep, no. He literally just cried in my arms for 2+ hours. He would of cried if I got up as well because these days, that is about he does, cling to someone and cry because he is so tired. He is miserable and beyond exhausted but I can not get him to sleep longer/more, he is sleeping 8ish hours in a 24 hour period. For him to be himself and not cry all day long, he needs to sleep 11+ hours. What am I missing? He isn't teething, we have a routine, he knows when it is bedtime, but he just will not stay asleep. I am used to children waking up, I nurse them and they go back to sleep, he is just up though!
