Please can someone help me? My dd is 2.5 yrs old and, for the last few months has become more and more difficult at bedtime and all the rest of the day really She stalls for time so much that bedtime has become such a long drawn out, stressful affair. We are in a vicious cycle of more drink, more breastfeeds, more cuddles, more nappy changes and so on. If we refuse her anything she goes into meltdown. When we eventually put her down in her cot she still screams and screams.
She is clearly overtired as she refuses to nap in the day, yet she only sleeps for ten broken hours at night. When she wakes at night she is inconsolable and takes at least an hour to settle. She will not be cuddled or soothed.
She has had paractemol, Ibiuprofen and homeopathic teething powder. I am at the end of my tether. I recent suffered a miscarriage @ 6 weeks and I feel that this situation may have been one of the factors that caused it. I am so tired from 6 days of heavy blood loss but I cannot get the rest that I need.
Dh works shifts and so cannot always help with bedtime. We have always been against leaving her to cry but I have got to the point that I am so angry with her that I have had to walk away.
Has anyone else experience anything similar, at this age? TIA.