Hello everyone I am new to this site, hoping & preying someone out there can listen to me whine on and give me some advice on my 19 months old daughter.
She has been in her own room & cot since being one week old & was generally a good sleeper, but for a while now she's waking in the night and Im talking over 5 times every single night, weather its because she's dropped her dummy & cant find it, or deliberately thrown it out of the cot..(As I hear it drop and go in to give it to her as i know full well she wont sleep without it) but when I do give it her, she sort of turns her head away to say she doesnt want it, and when she does take it from me, she wont let me leave her room without crying, but I did find if i left her door open with the landing light on she'd nod back off, but sometimes that isnt the case at 4am, I have bought her down stairs and she wasnt hungry, thristy but absolutely shattered, I am absolutely shattered myself at the moment with the broken sleeps at night, then having her all day as my husband works 12 hour shifts and ive been to the doctors who also said i was exhausted & I dont know what to do, as I think its either Teething or Attention but she always has calpol. Also, problem number 2 is the eating habbits she has, for breckfast I'll do her some toast and cut it all up for her 2 eat it herself, most of that gets chucked on the floor, she chucks her beakers on the floor, the same at lunch and tea time, I dont know if she's had enough or not, as it doesnt seem like shes eaten alot at all, which does worry me as i fret she'll go hungry, and I DEFINATELY dont want her hungry at tea time if shes not had alot, as then she'll be up in the night, alot of people say that if she was hungry she'll eat, but i just wanted someone else's opinion, meal times she'll have a couple of spoon fulls then her arms are all over the place knocking it out of my hand when im helping, then she leans over the high chair so i cant reach her mouth! Sorry for all the moaning, but Im tired and fed up and dontknow what to do, any ideas/opinions are gratefully apprecated.