As I write this, my dd has been screaming / sobbing for 30 mins. She won't let me near her to calm her down and when I ignore her she just carries on and on. I am 36 weeks pregnant and her behaviour has been getting more and more erratic as time goes on. She is a very bright child and she knows that there is a new baby coming and I think she is just very unsettled.
She is very mummy-centric - she always has been but now it's getting worse. Dh tries really hard and is a brilliant dad but she won't always let him near her - sometimes he only pokes his head around the door to her room and she starts screaming. We're really working on this as we know that when the baby arrives, she'll have to let others help her more.
At the moment, she seems to be behaving really well at nursery (she loves it - goes in the mornings) and for the childminder (one afternoon a week) but for us, she's either an angel or a total monster. The flashpoints at the moment seem to be getting dressed in the morning or ready for bed, and brushing her teeth. Her bedtime has been getting later and later - not because we don't start early - started at 6.15 tonight with the aim of her being in be for 7ish (ha ha - am writing this because I have given up for the moment and it's 7.15 already) - but because she gets herself into such a state that she can't seem to get out of it and short of using physical force, I'm not sure what to do. Last night I managed to get her out of her clothes but she wouldn't let me put her pjs on and ran around screaming, naked for 15 mins - when I tried to put them on she just ripped them off again. She ended up in bed at just gone 8 in the end, having exhausted herself.
Any ideas? Please help. She is a lovely little girl but I just don't know how to help her.