Steph Claire Smith shares the exhausting reality of getting her son Harvey, three, to sleep after experiencing her ‘worst night’ ever as a parent

Steph Claire Smith has shared her latest parenting struggle after with three-year-old son Harvey.

The fitness influencer, 30, took to Instagram Stories on Saturday night with a heartbreaking update about her son’s sleeping patterns, calling the experience her ‘worst night’ ever as a parent. 

Steph, who shares Harvey with husband Josh Miller, first uploaded a screenshot of a wellness app page that showed she’d only had three hours of sleep.

‘Well that was the worst/most challenging night in the three years of being a parent,’ she captioned the graph. 

The co-founder of fitness program Keep It Cleaner then shared a photo of herself lying in bed next to her son on Saturday night, looking very unimpressed.

Steph, who shares Harvey with husband Josh Miller, uploaded a screenshot of a wellness app page that showed she’d only had three hours of sleep 

‘Got home from the theatre at 11pm, hopped straight into bed. 11:30 Harvey woke from a nightmare, Josh resettled, we thought he was back asleep, ten minutes later he’s awake yelling out,’ she began.

‘Josh tried to resettle but Harvey was set on sleeping with us. So I got into his bed, and 20 minutes later he told me he wanted to go into our sparer room, didn’t want to sleep in his room. So I did. Only to be awake for another half an hour with him until he was patting me hard and wouldn’t stop, honestly like he was stuck and couldn’t hear me.’  

Steph went on to explain that Harvey was then ‘adamant’ that he he went downstairs to sleep in his parents’ room, he would finally fall asleep. 

The co-founder of fitness program Keep It Cleaner then shared a photo of herself lying in bed next to her son, looking very unimpressed. She accompanied this with a lengthy caption explaining what had happened.

However, as soon as Steph relocated to her bed with Harvey, things went from bad to worse. 

‘Then began the no sleep, kicking our backs, climbing onto our heads, anything BUT sleep. Fast forward past a few breakdowns from Josh and I, Harvey finally gave in and realised it was a nightmare, at 3:30am,’ she said. 

Steph said she and Josh woke up at 6:40, so only enjoyed three hours of sleep.

The blonde later returned to Instagram with a smiley photo of herself and Harvey dressed in raincoats while going for a walk outside

‘Why does everyone warn you about the shocking sleep you get with a newborn but fails to mention toddler nights can be so friggen hard too?’ she lamented. 

‘Fingers crossed tonight he goes down okay and I will be in bed right after!’ Steph added. 

The blonde later returned to Instagram with a smiley photo of herself and Harvey dressed in raincoats while going for a walk outside. 

‘Decided we weren’t going to let the lack of sleep or rain keep us on the couch all day,’ she wrote.