What do you do when your lo one refuses to sleep at all?

By StbHisMrs Nov 19, 2014

My youngest is having a hard time. I put her to bed at 8:30-9 (earliest I can because she shares a room with her sister and the older one will purposely wake her up if I change the order).
So then I can't go to sleep until 11:30 because she wakes up screaming once every hour until 11:30, I have rock her back to sleep each time. Then she wakes at 2, I am half asleep and bring her into my bed, then the rest of the night she rolls around, kicks me in the face etc... We have a king and I end up on the very edge every night with a foot in my face.

Tonight she woke at 11:30 (after I fell asleep on the floor) and has been up ever since. I am so tired, I want to scream!!! It's 2:45am and I have to be up at 5am.

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Orchid
clementine / 927 posts

Nov 19, 2014

So sorry! I can't offer advice, only commiseration. How long has that been happening?
lamariniere
pineapple / 12566 posts

Nov 19, 2014

Ugh, I'm sorry to hear this! Worst case scenario, I bring the travel crib into our bedroom, dump in a bunch of toys and stick her in there. It doesn't always work, but at least I know she's not going to fall off of the bed while we are trying to sleep.
StbHisMrs
pomegranate / 3329 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Leah: She's 14 months and has never slept well.

@lamariniere: That's a good idea, maybe I'll pull thout of storage for tomorrow night.

I'd like to just let her cry in her crib but that would open another can of worms because she'd wake her sister up!
StbHisMrs
pomegranate / 3329 posts

Nov 19, 2014

This happen at nearly 4am
Cherrybee
papaya / 10570 posts

Nov 19, 2014

I'm so sorry. Lack of sleep is the worst.

In answer to your question, I huff & puff, pick fights with my husband, punch the mattress a few times then sit crying while she tear-arses around the living room. Oh, I missed moan about it on Facebook.
Foodnerd81
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@StbHisMrs: I'm sorry. That's just brutal. No advice though I like the travel crib in your room idea. I usually do the same as @Cherrybee: and complain, huff and puff, say overly dramatic things like "no, it's fine! I'll just never sleep again!"

Then I drink tons of coffee in the morning, again in the afternoon, then can't fall asleep at night even after the baby has gone back to sleep.
tinyperson
pomegranate / 3858 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Cherrybee: @Foodnerd81: So glad I'm not the only one! I don't do well with MOTN wakeups...
tinyperson
pomegranate / 3858 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@StbHisMrs: What a sweetie Sorry you didn't get much (any?) sleep. Hope your day involves lots of coffee!
artsyfartsy
cantaloupe / 6692 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Cherrybee: @Foodnerd81: I do the same things. If it really gets bad, I'll put him in his bouncer or pack n play in the living room, turn on cartoons, give him some toys, and rest on the couch.
StbHisMrs
pomegranate / 3329 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Cherrybee: @Foodnerd81: @tinyperson: @Danizaur: Thank goodness I'm not the only one, I did all those things, except my Husband is overseas so he got some irrational texts from me
.twist.
pineapple / 12802 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@StbHisMrs: Is there any way you could move your older daughter into your room for a couple nights while you do a bit of sleep training?
babynumber1
persimmon / 1396 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@StbHisMrs: can you move your older child out of the room and do some sleep training. We have had a few challenging sleep times and teaching her to fall back asleep has been invaluable. Maybe build a fort in the living room or your room and make it fun and special for the older one?
spartysammy
coffee bean / 29 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Cherrybee: that sounds about right, just for me add get mad at the dogs for no reason or every reason!
@Foodnerd81: I too am a big fan of the overly dramatic statement my current favorite is "no it's ok that my daughter is trying to kill me by means of sleep deprivation! "
Pirouette
pomegranate / 3331 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Foodnerd81: hahaha...i ALWAYS say that. "it's totally fine, i'm just never gonna sleep again!"

@StbHisMrs: SO cute we haven't found the right solution to these issues (usually for us it's the early wakeup), but generally we take shifts (i realize that's not an option for you), and usually if we give her one of our cell phones to play with, she'll play quietly in our bed. also, i put toys in her crib and she'll play quietly for a little while. other than that, lots of playing the martyr and being cranky
Baby Boy Mom
pomegranate / 3983 posts

Nov 19, 2014

We've gone through pretty much the same thing. It definitely sounds like she's overtired. Could you put her to sleep in your bed for a bit? That's what we were doing, then put his older brother to sleep and then move the baby back into his own bed…
ETA: also remembered that you have a wonder week coming up…so maybe things will sort themselves out soon? hopefully
Foodnerd81
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@StbHisMrs: Oh yeah, blaming the husband via texts. He dropped her sound machine once and it broke, and he didn't tell me so I discovered it at nap time when I was trying to transfer a sleeping baby to the crib.... oh the texts I sent that afternoon. You would think he dropped and broke the baby, not the sound machine...

btw that picture of her sleeping- so precious. How could that little face cause so much trouble?
Cherrybee
papaya / 10570 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Foodnerd81: @StbHisMrs: Do you ever reflexively BLAME your husband for your LO not sleeping? I'm awful for this- "she was dropping off until you sneezed really loudly" or something equally unreasonable! I just need someone to be annoyed with because its just so damn unfair!
Foodnerd81
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Cherrybee: yes. It's not my finest quality.

But the sound machine was his fault.
artsyfartsy
cantaloupe / 6692 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@StbHisMrs: I irrationally texted my husband when he was gone on a trip. I texted at 3am that I couldn't do this anymore. I'm a terrible mom. I just want to sleep. He would wake up worried about me and I would be over it by then. Haha. It just happens
StbHisMrs
pomegranate / 3329 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@.twist.: She would love that! Except then she'd not want to go back into her bed!! lol
@babynumber1: I would so love to teach her how to fall back to sleep on her own, I'm just afraid of doing it on my own and taking another downward sleep spiral with my toddler!
@spartysammy: Yes! She's secretly conspiring against me!
@Pirouette: I'm going to pull the pack n play out of storage and give her my phone, and some toys next time this happens.
@Baby Boy Mom: I forgot about wonder weeks, that could totally be it!!
StbHisMrs
pomegranate / 3329 posts

Nov 19, 2014

@Foodnerd81: I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of those texts because I know what I'd be saying!!!
@Cherrybee: Yes, it's always his fault because he got me pregnant
@Danizaur: I got a few "Babe, are you ok?" "Why aren't you answering me, you were just awake!!?" texts this morning. I pretty much told him if ever deploys again I'm divorcing his @ss because he made me a single Mom to 3!!! Irrational now, totally made sense at 3am