I have just put Kurt to bed, and I am really hoping he sleeps through tonight.
Kurt has developed a very serious fear of spiders after watching Charlotte's Web at Film Club at school. Since then he has had nightmares and sleepless nights and we are going through a run of them again. It's been 4 or 5 nights in a row now that he has woken up and refused to go back to sleep. Last night he was up from 1am - 4.30am! I ended up curled at the bottom of the bed waiting for him to go to sleep. He was so tired I couldn't send him to school this morning and let him sleep a bit longer.
So tonight I have been rummaging through the search engine mine-field looking for child psychologists in our area.
I have already asked for help from his Psychologist and I know they have sent a letter out, but I don't know how long it will take, and in the meantime, we have a 9yr old who is terrified and refusing to sleep :(
I'm now just waiting for a call back to see if anyone can help - and to find out how much it's going to cost!
So tonight if he wakes up again, I'm just going to let him into our bed, at least we will both get some kind of sleep - him more than me! and he can go to school properly tomorrow.
Wish us luck
xx
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