Five days ago I wouldn’t have believed this possible. After a year of crippling sleep deprivation, he finally got the hang of sleep and has been a big fan ever since.
Until now, suddenly, completely out of the blue, he’s pleading we stay in the room with him, hold his hand or sing, or ‘mummy bed’. Then he wakes about 3 times in the night and is up at 5am.
Funnily enough I’m 35 weeks pregnant, and I just wondered if it is linked. I really think he can sense change ahead. I’ve been distracted and stressed recently too – trying to squeeze in extra freelance into hours that don’t exist and panicking about all the ‘jobs’ I need to do before our newborn arrives. He must sense it. Maybe he’s as terrified as I am!!
I don’t have to heart to leave him to cry it out – why would he go from being a happy, relaxed sleeper to suddenly wanting to manipulate us? I just can’t believe he has it in him. In my mind, he’s feeling anxious and therefore he needs me. But hey ho – we’ll see how we go and how long I can cope with the lack of sleep! In the meantime, I shall tap away in the semi-darkness, humming Postman Pat.
Fingers crossed this is just a phase. I wish you luck and hope sleep comes soon x
]]>Sadly, it hasn’t lasted, daughter has perfected the knack of sleeping through baby cries so we usually share our bed with 2 children now although woke this morning to find that husband had relocated to the spare room.
It does seem to relate to being alone – she has always been fine sharing a bedroom with Granny on holiday.
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