hand holding through this non-crying period please...

[PavlovtheCat]

jeeeeeeeeeeeesus.

Every fucking night at the same time for the last 4 nights.

'I DONT WANT TO GO MY BED, I DONT WANT TO GO MY BED, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE I DONT WANT MY BED I DONT WANT MY BED'. Crying, screaming, defiant, pleading, all the diferent ways to get my attention. Bouncing up and down up and down up and down. For fucking hours.

So far it has been 30 mins. I have been in twice. Yesterday it was two hours. The night before 3 hours in the night time too.

what the fuck is going on? It is torture.

see, it is getting to me so much I cant even title the subject heading properly.

I dont know what to do. I have just been in to see to him and he is now actually screeching so loudly it sounds like it is hurting his throat.

ok, he has thrown himself out of his cot, woken his sister wo felt it useful to colour parenting advice to me from her bedroom.

he is now with me huddled in a blanket kissing my neck over and over like a suckling baby.

yeah, cheers. thanks. thatll be the last thread/posting from me for a while. good to know i am not alone in my despair.

Sorry he is being a nightmare. If it helps, both of my DCs are being obnoxious for the last few weeks and my 5yo appears to have PMT, judging by how arsey she is.

I spent months patting smallest ones head until he nodded off at bedtime and in the night. While silently thinking evil thoughts about how much I resented him 'stealing my fucking sleep'. This too will pass and all that

Sorry Pavlov :(

How old? I found it quicker to stay with ds when he went through his difficult patches 18month onwards. Leaving him would only result in a prolonged bedtime.

Hey Pavlov - you're not alone!!! My 22 month old started the exact same nonsense at 19 months and she's still effing doing it! We tried E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!!! Even looked out the old Healthy Sleep Happy Child book but nothing worked. This week, after months of nightly battles I have thrown in the towel and put a mattress into her room for me to sleep on. If I hold her hand at bedtime she will fall asleep within 10 mins, as opposed to the 3 hour freak out sessions we've been experiencing. I leave after about 30 mins then head back in there at my own bedtime so that I'm there for all of her through the night wake ups. For the first time in months we're all getting a bit of sleep and I feel so much better for it. My theory is that if I can get her to feel less anxious about being separated from me during the night, she'll get a few good sleeps under her belt and thus won't be overtired which just leads to worse sleep/wake-ups. Then we'll work on weaning her from co-sleeping...well that's the plan!!

I'm not recommending this for you as I feel like a BIG FAT FAILURE to be co-sleeping with a 22 month old, especially as I have completely avoided co-sleeping until now but honestly it's the only thing that seems to be working at the moment. I hope I'm able to wean her off of co-sleeping soon but for now it's my only solution!

Good luck & lots of hugs,
from the mother of a very spirited 22 month little lady/crap sleeper xx