My youngest dd who turned 2 in May has gone from a confident child who slept really well and was quite well behaved into a child who is anxious and now won't go to sleep by herself at night.
Last week I put her down as usual at bedtime and for some reason she was straight up in her cot screaming the place down , trying to climb out . I put her in a bed the next night and she slept really well for four nights going to sleep by herself etc until last night when the same thing happened , she wouldn't stay in her bed and kept throwing fear filled glances around the room. I tried sitting with her for two hours and she would not go to sleep, kept smirking and kicking me. As soon as I had to leave the room to sort my other 3 out she would scream in fear and come running. In the end after deciding she was scared of her new toddler bed which she loved at first I wrapped her up and rocked her to sleep and placed her on the bottom bunk which is my five year olds bed, she then slept on the top bunk and my ten year old slept in the toddler bed, after almighty tantrum from the fi
ve year old.
Dd3 then slept all night!
She has been very clingy towards me lately, I am her main carer so she only really sees me. She does go to nursery every Wed all day and she hasddone so for eight months and has settled very well. She also goes to homestart creche since she was born so no probs there either.
Lately she can't bear to see me walk out the room and is always climbing on me hanging on to me and wanting me to pick her up. She has tantrums if she can't get her own way and has started throwing things and hitting. But this is only at home though.
Help, she is driving me nuts. She has had potty training which she has done very well, no pushing from me and her speech and understanding has improved too so I can't understand why she is liketthis. I need to get the sleep sorted. Please , any advice.