to want to soundproof dd's room and just let her get on with it?

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she has for the last 6 months or so woken at least once most nights, screaming like she's being disembowelled with a rusty hook (for absolutely no reason - she always happily turns over to go to sleep once we've been in), then just goes back to sleep, while we nurse our shattered nerves.

she's now taken to waking, tossing her favourite bear out of bed and screaming for his return. repeatedly. not happy. Bear is now tethered to the side of her cot. she is unimpressed.

what the hell do you do to reason with a 21 month old? tempted to use a cat-net over her cot so she can't eject him...

suggestions most welcome!

YANBU. Can you come over and do our DD's while you're at it please?

Love her to distraction, obviously, but she does the wake up, howl loudly for a few seconds and start snoring again and I lie awake for around the next two hours.

o suggestions of a useful variety, I'm afraid!

In the same rocky boat as you at the minute, dd went in her own bed months ago and all was totally fine till last week she now gets out of bed screaming and knocking on the door!

It has to be a phase??

In the same rocky boat as you at the minute, dd went in her own bed months ago and all was totally fine till last week she now gets out of bed screaming and knocking on the door!

It has to be a phase??

my experience with my 3 was that it was a phase. usually when we had returned from a holiday, they had had a late night, an exciting day or any other disruption to their normal pattern of life. it is a real pain but like all those other real pains we get from kids it will pass. you might try a night light or just something different to vary her bedtime routine giving a bottle of milk/no milk, bath/no bath. sometimes this works. good luck and try and see beyond the next couple of weeks. teenagehood is just around the corner - haha!!

Goldrill, that's precisely what ours did - only now she's escalated. Pff. after 5 trips last night I just left her to get on with it - awful screaming, but as I know there's nothing wrong with her other than a desire to see mummy crawling around on all fours looking for toys at 3 in the morning...

she finally gave up after about an hour of intermittent shouting and wailing. at least she didn't wake ds. this time.

We have decided that playing hardball is the only way we're going to get past this, as any sign of weakness and she's got us. earplugs will be bought!

will let you know if we have any success. Good to know we're not alone though!

MPM - I think it has to be a phase - just not used to it as ds always loved to sleep, and only very rarely had problems. also, he simply lacked her bloody minded-ness. which she seems to have in abundance. little sod's been dancing around in a lovely mood this morning. Gah!

Mummymeister - I'm terrified about what she's going to be like as a teenager. she's already got more attitude than a busload of St Trinians girls. heaven help her teachers!