Since being ill dd has turned into horrible screaming grizzle monster

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Help. Am sick of hearing that horrible high pitched roar, like a demented soup dragon.

DD (10 months) had nasty virus, and was quite ill. When she was very poorly, I took her in our bed, and now of course can't get her out.

As soon as he goes in cot, immediately starts screaming, wakes up screaming and will not settle. Have had 10 days of wall to wall grizzling and screaming and am ready to commit murder.

Prior to this she was quite a placid baby. Must go as she is yelling her head of now......again.

Please someone help...

Well I wonder if her age has something to do with it as well as the virus; I remember this being the age that our ds really kicked up a HUGE fuss at bedtime and our ability to put him in the cot and leave him just went!

I think we ended up rocking him alot at this age which is probably not advised, and killing on the back....however our hard and fast rule was that he stayed in his room. I never wanted to co-sleep or have him in our bed as our bed was just too small for us, let alone ds as well, so it made me determined.

This phase didn't last very long though, so do take heart. I think it's about setting yourself some rules and sticking to them and just don't worry if you have to rock her to sleep for a bit, I don't think this will necessarily create problems on an on-going basis - hasn't for us, anyway.

Perhaps you could rock her for now, but aim to keep trying to settle her by not picking her up first; eventually she might surprise you.

She hates being rocked, and wriggles and screams.

Have decided to follow controlled crying route (again)as she is a determined little madam.

I don't particularly want to do co-sleeping, however when I took ds into bed with us when he was ill, he just went back to his cot with no problem, but she is so stubborn.

So will try and spend 1/2 term holiday counting off the minutes in the middle of the night again