Sleep help!
I feel like I am going to lose it! Every night my LO wakes up screaming. and I dont mean like a fussiness but full on screaming. As soon as I pick him up hes completely fine adn falls asleep on me. lay him down? Screaming. walk out the room? scream intensifies. but its like 2-5 will just be resettling him and trying to leave ad just causing him to hear me leave and starting all over again. I cant keep doing this! I dont trust him in our bed as I know he’ll fall out. I had a bad night the other night and moved his cot into my room and he slept the next night wothout a peep. back in his room tonight and its just screaming again!
I’m so tired. I’m getting no sleep and I dont know what to do. I dont have the space to keep his bed in my room all the time. He shares the room with his brother so he’s not alone in there. He goes to bed and nap at the same times every day so no changes there. Its just happened all a sudden and theres not settling him other than just holding him and I cant keep doing that on no hours sleep as It makes me so angry and I do t want to be angry.
Any advice is very welcome
It sounds like separation anxiety. Is there a way you could put your mattress on the floor and co-sleep that way? Or put a mattress in the children’s room to co-sleep there. Travel cots are smaller than regular cots - would a travel cot fit in your room any better? Babies aren’t biologically programmed to sleep separately from their parents it’s a very first world concept and so naturally a lot of babies really struggle with it. If baby sleeps well when next to you for me I’d do whatever I needed to make it work so that I could sleep next to baby - maximise your rest and make life easier! It won’t be forever x