Toddler advice please! We have a few things going on at the moment.
16 mo dd is going through a phase of biting me, dh and other children. When she does this I put my cross voice on, tell her it is not ok to bit, show her th marks and stop what we are doing and do something else. Or if another child is involved I take her out of the situation and tell her off. She does seem to understand it is wrong but continues to do it. But when I tell her off on she does often laugh at me! What can I do to stop this behaviour? She bit me on Saturday and drew blood! A lot of time time she is mouthing and I don't think she realises the strength and hurt it causes.
That leads me on to sleep, due to the teething we have had a few bad weeks of sleep. She wakes between 1-4 times a night and has never been a great sleeper. But she is asking for milk now and wants to be with us. The last few nights we have given in and had her in our bed from 3am or so just to get some more sleep before having to go to work. Any tips around this? She has a good betime routine and goes to bed at 7pm after a bath with her bedtime milk, a cuddle and goes to sleep ok. I make sure she has calpol/ibuprofern etc for the teething. But she is still waking asking for milk which we have been giving to her. It has not affected her eating in the daytime. How would you tackle this?
Following a 2 week holiday 2 weeks ago she has become ultra clingy, I cannot be in another room, dh won't do, drop off at nursery is horrendous as we have to peel her off us while she is crying (fine after a while though and I am told plays ok etc). She is clingy at home or at other places, and at night she is waking to be with me.
Sleep deprivation is taking its toll on both dh and me at work, she is overtired too. When she isn't biting, being ultra clingy or sleeping badly she is funny, smart and lovely to be around. Any tips?