I'm a bit confused with my DD's current behaviour and wondered if any of you could shed some light please.
My DD is 2.4 now and has never been a great sleeper. We went to see my parents beginning of December and amazingly, she started to sleep through the night whilst we were there. After a week we went back home and her getting up 3-4 times a night started again.
This went on until my parents came to see us over Christmas where she turned into a right pain during the day (really going mad on all the attention she was receiving) but also sleeping through again all night.
Since they have left, it has been a real nightmare. It took us a week to get rid of her tamper tantrums (now only one a day is she is having a good day) but again, not sleeping at night.
She is usually quite good with people leaving, she sees her grand-parents once every 2 months or more often and also 'talks' to them on the phone. She is quite happy looking at their pics etc and there is no indication that she is terribly missing them.
Clingyness is a new one though and I thought they went through this stage when they are 1-ish? I'm a SAHM so we are together all day, playing, reading books etc so I don't think it's a lack of attention. However, I cannot go a metre without her running after me, wanting to see what I am doing. Last night she wouldn't eat with Daddy as she wanted to wait until I came back to the table (poor Daddy, he is so not flavour of the month right now).
So am I right in assuming that having had her grandparents and aunty there for xmas was more, how shall I say, exciting / hard work / challenging etc than I can imagine? Maybe she thinks I will leave her too (although we never had these issues before). She also goes to nursery for 2 days a week, half days, and seems more than happy to go there. She is in with the kids in a shot and hardly even bats an eye lid when we say our good byes.
Night-time is another problem. She spits out her dummy, kicks of her blanket and shouts for me until I come back in again. She is perfectly happy getting out of bed, turning the lights on, looking for the dummy and then returns to bed. She won't however turn off the lights and cover herself again, I have to come in and tuck her in.
This is only slightly exhausting for me, don't know how I will cope with DD2 arriving in 6 weeks time.
Sorry this has been so long but if any of you have any ideas, I would be grateful for some insights.