Can anyone offer me any tips on how to settle my 20-month-old DD? She has always been quite a good sleeper (lucky us), but recently she has been waking in the small hours, and just wants to talk, to point to everything in her room, to look at books... I think her head's buzzing as she's learning quite a lot of new words lately. She's had phases a bit like this before, but it's been a few weeks now and I'm worried a pattern is forming (though it's not every night).
If we put her back in her cot she screams blue murder, and if we bring her into our bed she just wants to play. So far we've found that we have to resort to letting her cry it out sooner or later - but she's ramping up the wailing to new levels every night, and whenever she screams 'MUMMY!' I'm finding it gut-wrenching! (As I'm sure are our neighbours.) Plus I'm pregnant, and being up at night is starting to take it out of me...
Does anyone have any tips - or do we just have to slog this one out? Should we be doing some kind of controlled crying? We'd be hugely grateful for any advice!
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TheDormouse · 23/08/2011 14:08
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