does seperation anxiety cause sleep problems

[shellybelly]

ok dd is 8mths, has been sleeping in cot since she was about 4mths, she has 1hr nap in the morning, 2hr nap in the afternoon and she is normally in bed between 6.30pm-7pm, however recently she has been a nightmare to get off to sleep, she will wake up screaming and as soon as we pick her up she is fine, over the past 3 nights dh and I have been unable to settle her(she is like this when we change nappies) put her down and she screams pick her up and she is fine, I checked with the staff at nursery this morning and they have had no problems so this is why i'm thinking seperation anxiety, anyone else experienced this, I'm thinking about doing the pu/pd to see if that works

we are experiencing exactly that with dd 9 months. Started pu/pd but wasn't really working for us (didn't give it long though but we knew we wouldn't see it through, same with cc). For now I'm just back to cosleeping, which doesn't bother me, but the early evening/ naps are a prob. She also hates to be put in the buggy now and wants to be carried. I have no advice but my neighbour just went through this with her ds, who was a clinging vine that screamed when she left the room and she says he is better now, around 3 months later. That made me feel better thinking I can ride it out if it is just a relatively short phase, but tbh it has got me down alot this week!

thanks for the reply bobblehead, dd normally comes in with us but thats about 5.30am and if the pu/pd doesn't work then I think she will have to come in with us through the night, I'm so tired and thankfully I only have one more day of work and then I'm a SAHM

Shelly, do you find that your DD is OK during the day? Because DS has just started to be a nightmare to settle (he was never a great sleeper but things had started to look up). Now he's only up twice in the night but for an hour and a half each time - clinging and objecting to the cot. I was wondering about separation anxiety, but he seems fine during the day, so I was wondering if it could be teeth because I can see his little gum bulging.

Oh yes.There is a thread on here about babies turning into screaming banshees at 9 months.DD1 did it & we sucessfully used CC.She stopped within 3 nights.

DD2 started the same thing last Tuesday.We did CC again & by Thursday she was down to about 1 minute of crying at bedtime.

Although I used the BW books for other things & had great sucess,PU/PD never worked on my two.They just got more & more upset.

I hope it works for you-anyway it is just a phase & it will pass

actually she has started to get 2 of her top teeth so it could be that tho last night was slightly better