Sunday, 19 May 2019

3 year old STILL doesn’t sleep through the night and it’s driving me crazy.


This is a semi rant/asking for advice.My daughter will be three in just a couple weeks. She didn’t sleep at all through the night until just before her second birthday, and even to this day, it’s hit or miss if she gets up in the night. Unfortunately, she still gets up at least 4-5 out of 7 nights a week. IM TIRED. I don’t know what to do. And tomorrow, we’re moving...Currently, she sleeps in my room in her own bed. Always has. We rock and read a book every night, and I’ve gotten to where she will only rock for about five mins before she lays down, but then she asks two or three times to go rock again. And then there’s all the other stalling she does... I try to start getting her ready for bed around 9PM bc she will stall until 10 or 10:30, and tonight, it was 11:15 before she got still and quiet. It’s driving me batty. Just lay down and go to sleep, child! And if I don’t get up and tend to her every whim, she will scream and scream until I have to get up. She will scream until she pukes. I don’t know how to fix this. I work late four days a week and don’t get home until 8PM ish and after I get home, I give her a bath, feed her, and get her ready for bed. Again, by 9PM, we’re heading to bed bc she will stall forever.And tomorrow, the adventure will really get interesting bc I close on my first home. Due to unfortunate circumstance, we’ve lived with my parents her whole life. I’m a single mom, she has no father figure. (Please no criticism.) She has a 5 year old brother with extremely high functioning autism. It’s just us. A lot of times my parents will enable her stalling so I know that they’re part of the problem. But now I’m about to be living on my own and I’m sure she’ll have a hard time adjusting. She’s moving into a brand new home, and she will be getting her own room for the first time. My son goes to his dad’s for 3 nights a week and he won’t be there starting tomorrow night so I know that she won’t be as stressed with him there. But I am really worried neither of us will sleep. I’m worried that she’s gonna keep waking up. I want to sleep. I want to have a decent amount of sleep. Most other three year olds are sleeping like normal people and not like infants. I’m stressed, nervous, tired, and anxious. I don’t understand why my daughter is more high maintenance with her sleep than my autistic son. I feel like I sound totally awful and critical but I’m going insane. Civil advice is welcome, especially on the moving part. But I needed to get it out.Also I want to add that I give her children’s melatonin every night to try and help her but she still wakes up. via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2HrJohs

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