to cling to the hope that this will pass, or should I do something about it?

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DD is nearly 2. She's had no teeth appear for months and in the last fortnight it looks like her canines and molars are all coming at once. She's waking at least three times a night, is often awake for a two hour spell at some point, and is starting the day at 4am. If I get her back to sleep then she will only nap for half an hour.

She's a stroppy horror during the day. She had already bitten DS, wrecked his picture and had a huge tantrum this morning. I'm putting her back to bed right now in fact.

I'm surviving, just, on tiny fragments of sleep, and the house is a wreck. We can't continue like this indefinitely. But I'm sure it must pass by itself. I don't need to do sleep training or anything, do I? Would you?

It possibly is just her teeth being sore. I'd make sure she has some pain relief before a sleep to allow her to get a better quality of sleep.

Ds didn't sleep for 3 and a half years despite many techniques. Then he went from about an hour a night to 13 hours. I woke up and panicked.

Well I would do something, but I think blaming it all on 'teeth' is wrong.

Sounds like teeth to me.

My DD is fast approaching 2 too, and my word someone appears to have swapped my happy go lucky sweet child for a monster.

Tantrums, biting, hitting, screaming have all arrived at great speed. Thankfully she got her canines and molars (which all came at the same time) a few months back, and that was a nightmare too.

Just so you know you are not alone!

I think sleep training would be pointless while she is still teething as its not really her fault shes waking if shes in pain.

But once the teething has passed the bad sleep pattern may continue and thats when I would start sleep training.

Poor her and you. Sounds like a nightmare.

We had the same - ds teethed all at once and it was awful. It does pass. Keep her dosed up with Calpol when necessary and teething sachets help loads ime.

Having a 'moving' wisdom tooth I sympathise greatly with teething kids - it bloody hurts!

My sympathy. Same here for my DS. He is 2 soon and was sleeping pretty well then for last week or so he is narky, clingy and wakes up writhing around at night. He is awake for up to 2 hours. I can only think it's his teeth. Took him to docs and he found nothingnwrong, no temp or ear infection or anything really.

I am just dosing him on Calpol and hoping it will passs soon. Am sure it will.

valium have you thought about getting your wisdom removed? I had mine done all at one sitting - not the pleasantest 45 minutes of my life!!! - and it's all been fine since.

I have a funny shaped jaw rev and removing the bottom ones would mean the top ones would 'fall.'

They only shift every couple of years but when they do they hurt! They only ever came half way through anyway - very odd!

I was advised to put up with it as long as possible.

Thanks.

I'm thinking I'd rather suffer it than get tough when she's actually in pain. She'd been improving on the sleep front, occasionally sleeping through, so there must be something causing it (other than wickedness!).

Just hang in there, it will pass. You can't do anything when they are in pain can you, it's not like she's being naughty... hopefully it will pass quickly - for both of your sakes!!

If her teeth are hurting than calpol is your friend.