Have named changed as I am a little ashamed that I don't know how to handle this !
DD is 2.6 and has always been a good sleeper. Would wake occasionaly in the night but a back rub and a small drink and she would settle again.
The last 6 nights she has gone down OK at about 7.30 with a small bottle of milk. By 9pm she is crying for me and demanding more milk, or another story, or some cuddly toy. She screams absolute blue murder, and I mean screams, sobs, crys, more screaming. She finally settles with another small bottle.
She is a really light sleeper, so when we go to bed she always stirs but usually goes straight back off, but for the last 4 nights the stirring has escalated to her calling for me, then crying then screaming & sobbing. The ony thing that calms her is more milk.
Obviously this is very upsetting emotionaly and I really don't know how to handle it as I have never had too.
Over the last few nights we have tried going in and trying to settle her with a drink and a cuddle. But only milk will do which is not ideal and she really doesn't need 3 small bottles of milk a night and it is not a habit of we want to get into.
Last night at 11.30 pm when she kicked off DH insisted we leave her to it but after 45 minutes of her screaming and sobbing I went in, which again we don't want to get into the habit of running to her every time she crys.
She was going mental, screaming at me, throwing her covers off, shaking her head, refusing a cuddle. Milk calmed her
Tonight she has kicked off at 9pm and it was milk again.
Help ! Do I just continue to ply her with milk ?
Do I just let her cry (luckily we are detached as you would have thought she was being murdered last night) ?