My step daughter is 8 in march, I have been in her life since she turned 5. (I'll say this now I'm more strict then the mother) So in these years of sleep I can count the amount of times she has slept all night in her bed. The last 3 nights she has kept me up and in 72 hours I've slept 6 hours. It is currently 5:45am and I've been up since 4 looking for help. She wakes up in the middle of the night 3-5 times. My fiance is very tired from work so I get up with her, my fiance will sometimes wake up and then take her back to bed were they both fall asleep. Now I have sleep insomnia so once I'm up I'm usually up. So even if my fiance wakes up with her I am up for the night or day. Me and my fiance sleep fine together because we are so tired.I need a way or technique to keep her asleep at night, my fiance will not give her melatonin. I'm at the point because I'm so tired to give it to her. I get 4-7 hours a night but 6 hours in 3 days I'm at my wits end. I've tried everything I can to not cross my boundaries. She woke up this morning saying she's scared of under her bed. I almost went in there and just pulled her bed frame out and just have mattresses on the floor, but I didn't because that's just being dramatic, so I put her back to bed assured her not to be scared (she says she's scared of under her bed every night that's why I almost pulled the bed frame out). She comes back in the room after I fell asleep which is a miracle because no rarely fall back asleep, and she wakes me up again I'm out of bed getting ready to take her back and my fiance lifts up the blanket for her and let's her crawl into bed. Now I am against co-sleeping I don't like it, number one I am just a step parent and its awkward for me and 2 because I think its a bad horrible habit for kids.So there I am at 4 am standing out of bed finally woken up. (When my daughter sleeps in the bed its a horrible sleep for me not my fiance) so before I wasted my time to fall back asleep I took my blankets and pillows and left. Now if it was an easy solution to just sleep on the couch every night I would god it would be amazing to sleep through one night. But nope. If my daughter wakes up at night my fiance will keep her from school and take her at 10 let her sleep in. NO! I am against that to, no no no no!!!! If she wakes up at night she's getting up at 7:20 for school and going, staying up all day till bed time because maybe then she will be tired and I think I'm going to try that for now on it will be a fight with my fiance and I know it but I can't sleep like this anymore and it is unhealthy for my daughter to.I'm going to start her back on her routine in bed at 8:30 regardless or not of the fight she gives me up at 7:20 for school that is more then enough sleep at night. But now here's another issue she is the kid who gets electronics not from me but her mom bought her an Xbox a TV and a tablet for her room. I have weened out the tablet for her room but she is 11110% Dependant on the TV in her room for a movie to fall asleep to, if it were up to me I'd play her some soft music at night and shut that TV off!! Please please if you have any idea how to help please let me know I can't do this anymore. I want my daughter to sleep and stop missing school! via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2ksMKCv
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