Life

My family is going through a tough time right now. My son has been having trouble sleeping since the end of December and it’s like a roller coaster each night. When I lay with him at bedtime and we have our conversation, I never know what the night will bring. Some evenings it’s as simple as a couple calls for reassurance or he’ll get up for a glass of water. Some nights it’ll take him over an hour to fall asleep and we can hear him get up in the middle of the night but he’ll go back to bed on his own. And then there are nights that we’re all ready to scream or cry until we fall asleep. I fear the latter every night as we go through our routine and last night it happened once again. After hours of up and down, saying he can’t sleep, and crying in the fetal position he finally exhausted himself enough and drifted off. But that’s where my sleepless nights start. The helplessness, frustration, and confusion that run through me as I hear him cry or watch him toss and turn stays with me for hours. My husband is a godsend and has more patience then I do any day of the week. He’ll stay calm and rub his back while I’m ready to explode. I know my son doesn’t want this to be happening but it seems as if he’s causing himself to not sleep by obsessing over little things he’s never even mentioned before. For me the most frustrating part is that we can’t determine the trigger. How did he go from a perfect sleep to an insomniac overnight???