Hi all, not one to post on here but I need some reassurance/help…Our daughter has always been fiercely independent, has never or will not co sleep, always slept in her cot brilliantly and self settled. Of course when poorly or teeth cutting we get some wakes and upset but that’s to be expected.
We’ve had the week from hell (day 7 now of hysteria) and it sounds extreme but our Christmas was awful. Bedtime takes about 3 hours of me and her dad taking it in turns, she’s crying so hysterically until she’s wretching herself sick even though we are cuddling her. Then she’s waking every hour hysterical again until I let her sleep on me sat in a chair. (She doesn’t want dad for this she wants me, so as much as my husbands helping to give me a break she screams until I come) so I’ve slept 2 hours if I’m lucky the last week; Xmas day she was so exhausted she sat on me all day and screamed if I so much as went to the toilet without her, it was SO hard. I can’t cope with her being so hysterical so I give in.
I thought maybe she was going to be poorly, no temp, no symptoms, so signs of her being irritated. My husband can’t soothe her like usual, he usually does bedtime a lot but it’s all on me at the moment and he can see how stressed and exhausted I am but it’s sheer hysteria if he so much as walks in the room. We’re really really struggling.
Is the sleep regression everyone speaks of at 18 months and we just need to griz through? She has her molars btw. Husband wants to reintroduce a dummy as she used to have one thinking this will give us some sleep but I think that’s more issues giving it back after taking it away a while ago?
No changes in home environment or her bedroom/routine to note.