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2 1/2 year old who won't sleep...

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louisewilliams · 26/06/2010 11:57

My daughter is 2 1/2 and she won't go to sleep until 9 or after most nights only to wake at 5.30ish 6 the next morning. I've tried routine of bath and story time, quiet time but she won't sleep and gets up and runs out of her room once you leave her. She then proceeds to scream the house down for the next hour or so. we try leaving her and putting her back in her bedroom but once you leave her she gets up again and cries.
She then often wakes in the night and has a tantrum... crying, screaming, kicking her legs and will refuse to go back to sleep in her own bed. please anyone got some advice?

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moocowme · 26/06/2010 13:16

does she sleep in the day? if so when and how long? does she have seperation anxiety at any other time?

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 26/06/2010 13:23

Yes, does she still nap in the day? (pm sound late for a 2 1/2 year old to go to bed. Our 2 ds's (aged 4 and 2) are bothin bed by 7pm.

Could you stay with her until she's gone to sleep maybe?

Once that's working well, start doing a gradual withdrawal from the room, so one night sit a step away from her bed, the second night 2 steps, gradually increase the distance until you can go straight out.

It took a while but worked well for ds1 at about the same age.

littleredsquirrel · 26/06/2010 13:30

Can you bribe her? I know it may be disapproved of by many but DS2 is three next week and has only started sleeping in the past three months. Before that we had all sorts of problems with him getting out of bed, waking 2 or 3 times a night, tantruming and generally ending up in bed with us.

Tried all the techniques and nothing worked and then finnaly bribed him with a reward chart and a promise of a scooby doo toy if he could get a whole weeks worth of stars on his chart for not shouting out and not getting out of bed.

It did the trick. I was astonished! He now sleeps through most nights since he's in the habit of doing it. If he does wake up a quick shout of "back to sleep DS2 or that next scooby doo toy won't be coming at Christmas" works a treat!

He still wakes up at 5.45 every morning but I can cope with that now.

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