Insomnia will be the death of me. X has never been one to stay alseep or sleep the recommended 8 hours he should be. Since he was born he has always stayed up passed 11pm and still manages to get up around 8am, if not earlier. He woke up throughout the night until two. It wasn’t that big of an issue when it was just X, Alex(SO), and I and we didn’t have a set schedule.
Fast forward to now and we have speech therapy 2x a week, half day pre-k, another child, and more adult responsibilities. Not only do we have an insomia issue X also refuses to sleep in his own bed. He used to be great at sleeping in his own room until 6 months ago. X had a fever so i brought him into our bed to keep an eye on him and that’s all it took. All those years of progess just flushed down the toilet. On the nights we do manage to get him to sleep in his bed, we wake up to him crawling into ours a few hours later.
We’ve tried laying with him till he falls alseep, tv, tablet, cuddles, mattress on our floor, we even went so far as to buy him a new big boy bed with a tempur-pedic mattress. As a sort of last resort we’ve given him melatonin a few times but still the same result. Awake, and in our bed.
I try and cherish the cuddles I do get because I know one day it’ll just be a memory but sometimes it feels like he will be sleeping with us forever. In the meantime I’ll be here balancing on the edge of our bed with feet in my face trying to remember it’s going to be okay. Sleep tight yall š“
Stuck in the middle 