She goes down at half seven and now just starts screaming and crying as soon as she's put down. She's been going down easily and awake and self settling for at least a year. It wouldn't be as big a problem but I'm quite often alone with her and her 7mo baby sister and I'm not sure how I'll deal with it once DP goes away on business. The old routine was to put toddler down at half seven and go feed the baby, putting her down. If the toddler starts screaming and wailing as soon as I leave the room the baby will never go to sleep. I'm not sure what to do??
Other info that is relevant - she's recently started toilet training so things have all changed in that regard. When we ask her what's wrong she just says she wants us to stay/read another story/go to the toilet. The last one is the hardest because we genuinely don't know if she needs to go or not so I'm finding it hard to ignore her. She also says she's scared the cat is in her room even though I'll show her him elsewhere in the house right before she goes to sleep.
Any ideas? She's never really done this and learned to self soothe quite easily. Even if the baby does fall asleep as she's wailing (it's a small house, she might not...) it means leaving her screaming and crying for twenty mins while the baby goes down.
Any help or advice would be appreciated at this point!
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weeblueberry · 16/11/2015 20:13
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