For the last 3 months, my 2.5 year old DD has been waking in the night for 2-4 hours and I’m losing the will to live.
She dropped her nap about 6 months ago so I no longer get that time to catch up on sleep.
She was going to sleep at 7pm but we tried an earlier bedtime of 6pm wondering if the wakings are from over tiredness. On a handful of occasions she’s slept 6pm - 5am but the majority of the time she’s waking up anywhere between 11pm -3am and then is awake for hours. She will then sleep until 7.30am.
She goes to bed fine and settles herself but in the night she gets so upset and cries if we leave her alone. Last night she strolled into my bedroom at 2.45am, I brought her into bed with me otherwise I’m up and down all night and she eventually went back to sleep at 5am until 7.30am. For the 2 hours she was awake she’ll start talking, clapping and just being annoying!
my next step is a sleep consultant but is there anything I’m missing?