really need help 2yr old screaming all night

[ladythatlunches]

Hi, my dc is 2yr 4 months.

Always been a good sleeper, she has a good routine bath milk put down to bed and she falls straight to sleep. Never ever had a problem .....

Until 2 weeks ago. She went to bed as normal. Woke up at 2am crying and screaming. She wouldn't lie back down I gave her a cuddle the she wouldn't get back in bed.

I thought maybe a nightmare so I brang her in bed. She stopped crying but didn't go back to sleep just played with my eye lids and banging my head till 6am when I just got up.

Since then we have had one night where she refussed to go to bed screaming sobbing.
I've tried everything from letting her cry it out. Giving her cuddles. Sleeping in her bed with her. Sleeping in floor next to her, even giving her a drink and calpol.

She is 1 of 5 and having about 2 hours sleep at night is draining me im exhausted.

If anyone can help or offer advice I would be so grateful

My little one2 and half did this a few weeks ago too just waking at 3 and 4 in morning screaming don't know why just gave her milk smoothed her head and left she went right back to sleep.i find spending too much time in her room makes it worse,back to normal now ( touch wood) awful when your tired ,I'm on own as husband works abroad,so even with just one and being pregnant lack of sleep a killer.hope goes well for you.

Oh god is it like a full moon or something my sisters dd is doing same and my friends little boy too. Its horrible. Evenings are all us mummys have.

She went down like a dream again :) so hope she behaves and let's mummy and daddy have a very very rare sociable evening.

Errrr, blaming this thread for ds waking at 10.30 last night and not going back to sleep (in our bed) until 2.30.

I slept in the spare room but poor dh is now catching up on sleep.

Hoping it was our weekly session ad nothing more.

Well my dd went down fine last nught woke at 12:30 as I was just nodding off!

Went in did exactly what I did the night before and she went straight back to sleep so only 15 minutes.

Thought we had cracked it. . Dam it

OP why is it always you? Ask your DH to go to her. I found once I insisted DH goes to DD1 at night she quickly stopped waking as it wasn't worth it for grumpy daddy!

She will not settle with him at all. He is far to soft.. if she cries for cuddle he will pick her up.

The other night I saw him sneaking up stairs with a bottle of milk. . I was not impressed.

Well after a small fuss going to bed he slept until 7.30am today. Bliss!

I. Don't. Understand. Toddlers.

Well mine woke at 12am I shhhhhhhhh her left her door open and she was fine.

She woke up at 6am though zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sounds like its getting better overall though! Keep working at it! Worth a chat with your husband though... If he's doing different things to you it could easily undo all your good work- you really need to be on the same page with this :-S

He knows, he is just so soft and it breaks his heart. I on other hand am better as its me it affects as dh works nights sometimes.

Plus im stuck at home with her and im just so tired that I don't have the energy for it .. im hoping she will snap out of it and the early morning wake up calls.

Just a update. She still getting up but not taking as long to settle. Last night I just gave her dummy to her and said night night and left!
She started again I went back in and shhhhhhh her ans said night left door open then she was fine.

We had yet another two hour awake sesh. DH and I resolved that next time he's being left - enough is enough!

Worse thing that can happen is that it'll take two hours, no different to having him in our bed tossing, kicking and chatting!

I feel your pain I really do.

Im keeping up with this thread si it's like a diary for myself.

Im exhausted so is dh and so is dd.

I just want our normal sleeping child back again

My ds has been wailing like a deranged cat upstairs for 45 mins. I'm eating sweet & salty popcorn which is helping.

Sod

Sod is a good word.

I chose choice words myself ha ha.

Keep up the good work. I found letting her cry it out defenetly made a huge difference from 2/3 hours to now 15 minutes max.

We will both get there soon ..... I hope

Keep going Mummies! You're doing well :-)

Sarah don't suppose you want to come and do it for us? You sound like you know what you are doing. :)

I would love to be able to have a nanny or something. . My goodness what I would do with free time

We had a good night! she slept all thr way through not apeep But she was up at 6am.

Hooray! Boo on the 6 am wake up but could be just her body adjusting to sleeping properly again, may well settle down in time.

Ha! Would love to swing by but unfortunately I'm working full time already at the moment! ( though not night times, admittedly!! ) :-P

Highly recommend the book 'why do French kids not throw food' for some interesting stuff on different parenting styles. I found the bit on babies sleeping really fascinating!

Sarah

I hope so.. im not used to early awakenings.

Ha ha ok well if you change your mind do let me no :)