Toddler Regression/Seperation Anxiety, Help.

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My daughter is just over two and a half years old and over the past 2 weeks or so has become incredibly difficult to put down for sleeps.

She now fights her naps and has skipped a few but evenings are a killer.

She cries and sometimes scream cries for us to come back after the bedtime routine is done and when she has us in the room always asks for water, cuddles, another song, to use the potty etc. She started asking for the room not to be dark anymore too so we put on a nightlight. She was a really good sleeper until all of a sudden and now its a battle to get her to settle. She also sometimes wakes in the night and for a good few hours calls us in, what feels like, every 20 to 30 minutes...Nothing we seem to do helps. I try to keep the visits to her room "boring" and I try repeating that its sleep time over and over but when I leave she freaks out again and calls me back.

She always repeats herself frantivally over and over too with phrases like "Mummy and dayy be right downstairs", "Ill see you in the morning", "Ill hold my teddy really tight" and many more. I know its to stop me leaving.

I would drop the nap, sounds like she doesn’t need it? Then night time sleep should improve. I had this with my daughter & I sat in her doorway for the first few nights until she fell asleep, then gradually moved further out the door, sitting on the landing etc. now I sit on my bed in the room next door - she calls out and I just say ‘goodnight’ so she knows I’m there.
Every phase is a phase and will pass, someone told me that in the early days & it really helped!

Thank you for your advice. Im not sure about the nap as I wondered if it was her being overtired that might have made the night more unsettled?

It's hard as its frantic crying and often feels like it'll never end.