I'm not sure I'd consider my daughter a 'bad sleeper' as I hate the term and I think it's normal for babies and toddlers to wake up lots. We've bed-shared either full or part-time since she was born and she's mostly always woken up several times a night, like every 1-3 hours. We did have a few months when she started to STTN maybe from around 13 months (it was weird!!). But otherwise, she's always woken multiple times. When it's a rough phase, she's back in bed with us - well, me, my husband sleeps on the floor because we don't all fit in the bed, need to get a new one! That at least helps me not wake up so completely when I do have to get up, because I have insomnia, so if I wake up fully during the night, it takes an hour or two to fall back to sleep. That means I get more sleep than I would if I had to get out of bed. You're already bedsharing, so you know that. I also make a real effort to go to bed early if it's been a particularly rough few days. I cook dinner early while my daughter is having her dinner (usually we eat after she goes to bed), so that we eat right after bedtime and go to bed ourselves. Otherwise, during the day, lots of coffee! Also, though it's easier said than done (trust me, it's a pain in the ass some days), I've found that eating as healthy as I can and squeezing in some exercise during the day helps a lot with my energy levels, even on the worst days. I squeeze in a run or a walk during my lunch break, but that's not as easy if you don't work and you're home all day because you don't have the luxury of childcare for those 30 minutes. But it does really help. Makes me not feel like I'm going to lose my mind quite so much. Oh, yeah, and coffee. Did I say that already?
