My DD has just turned 18 months and overnight has turned into a snivelling, screaming, snotting, wailing, hysterical goer-to-bed.
Normally we give her a bottle, give her her dummy, sit with her for a little while (though that can be up to 40 mins), and she'll settle down and sleep through.
However, the last three nights have been hell. She just will not allow herself to go to sleep even though she is clearly exhausted (as are we). I know that the idea is to get a child to settle themself, but when we tried that last night, she just got hysterical - arching her back, thrashing her legs and screaming and retching until she made herself copiously sick. It took 5 hours to get her to go to sleep.
The night before she'd woken up after being asleep for about 2 hours and was sick (she's had a cough and has swallowed catarrh). Tonight we're into the 2 hours of 'trying to get to settle'. One false start already. We left her for 10 minutes and she screamed and thrashed and started getting hysterical again.
We did have this issue with bathtime until a week or so ago.
Can't even get Calpol or Neurofen into her to soothe her (teething again) as she just won't let you.
Other than the patience of a saint, earplugs and getting someone to come in and cook dinner and feed it to us whilst we placate misery guts, does anyone have any ideas? We ended up going for a drive at midnight last night in sheer desperation. Got her out of the car, and she woke and wailed again for another 20 mins. :(