2 year old screaming all night .. help

[ladythatlunches]

Hi, my dc is 2yr 4 months

.Always been a good sleeper, she has a good routine bath milk put down to bed and she falls straight to sleep. Never ever had a problem .....Until 2 weeks ago.

She went to bed as normal. Woke up at 2am crying and screaming. She wouldn't lie back down I gave her a cuddle the she wouldn't get back in bed.I thought maybe a nightmare so I brang her in bed.
She stopped crying but didn't go back to sleep just played with my eye lids and banging my head till 6am when I just got up.

Since then we have had one night where she refussed to go to bed screaming sobbing.I've tried everything from letting her cry it out. Giving her cuddles. Sleeping in her bed with her. Sleeping in floor next to her, even giving her a drink and calpol.

She is 1 of 5 and having about 2 hours sleep at night is draining me im exhausted. If anyone can help or offer advice I would be so grateful

Hi. I'm sorry, I don't know the answer, but I could pretty much have written your post and I totally sympathise.
My DD is just under 2, and has never slept through in her life, but things are getting worse.
We have very similar pattern at night, she will go to sleep as normal then wake approx 2am screaming for up to 2 hours, then shouts periodically for the rest of the night. I have also tried cuddling, sleeping next to her bed, lying her down, letting her sit up, etc etc.
The only thing that works is getting her to sleep in bed with us but then she wants to BF which I am now really ready to stop. She is totally disruptive, hitting and kicking us and rolling about in the bed so we don't get any sleep.
I have been trying without letting her in bed for 2 nights and I am already utterly knackered and struggling to cope at work. My DS is suffering too as she wakes him up (and the neighbours I think; she is LOUD).
I would love to know if anybody has any suggestions too.

I feel for you too. It's awful.

My dc wakes everyone up I also have 1 year old twins who she wakes up and 2 older children. So I have tried to leave her to cry but wakes everyone up and she really doesn't give in.

Lets hope suoer nanny comes on and gives us some advixe before we both end up luke zombies

No answers here, but my almost-2yo DC2 has been the same recently. He was sick (nothing serious) about five weeks ago and the very disrupted sleep started just before that.

He also hasn't slept through a night in his life...[sleep-deprived zombie emoticon]

(And I thought my DC1 was bad!)

Have you tried tweaking daytime naps? We have all-but cut them out now.

Dc hasn't had a day time nap in aggggges. Because she went to bed nice and early and slept for about 14 hours there was no need. Little tinker wouldn't go for a nap now even if her life depended on it!

Is it teething? My DS is the same age, never been a great sleeper (although now much improved) but he has had definite episodes of difficulty in settling or night waking which sort themselves out with time, and I have usually been able to relate them to teething or known developmental stages. He had an episode similar to what you describe recently and as I now have a 6m DD I resorted bringing him into bed with me. I had a lot of difficulty settling him at first - he was just wide awake - but after a while he would come in and fall straight asleep. Now that things have much improved and he is sleeping through in his own bed and he has cut 3 of his last set of molars.

Maybe try putting her to bed later then. If she's zonked she might not wake up in the night.

Or bed earlier, if you think it might be overtiredness.

I've tried later. Actually made her worse. I have out her down 10 minutes early with some calpol incase it's teeth. Fingers crossed the floor is not appealing tonight. Im in bed now going to get some sleep before she starts.

Maybe check with gp in case it's an ear infection. Apparently it feels much sorer lying down. Dd had a few days of sleeping through while on antibiotics though she reverted to type after.

hard not to just make calpol another part of the routine when you've no clue what's wrong.

We moved her nap to before lunch which has helped with getting her to bed at a reasonable time. But, the least little sniffle and she's waking a couple of times a night again.

It'll pass. Or so they say.

Last night was a nightmare. At first she didn't want to go to bed but after some more milk and saying goodnight to everything in the house she went down!

Then my 7 yr old started! Dh said he would sort the older 2 while I went to bed super early to catch up on some sleep. She came in kicking the side if the bed and jumping on me. Then dh shouting at her made sleeping impossible!

Little one started at 1:30am the usual wouldn't lie dow crying to get up. I slept on her floor again.. well didn't sleep waited till she was snoring then went into my bed then she woke up at 5:30 to start the day.

Exhausted and very emotional.

Seriously, take her to the doc. Myy dd had no other symptoms of infection. No ear rubbing, weeping etc. V low level fever but she runs quite warm anyway so hadn't really noticed

Sorry x

Im going to take her tomorrow just for peace of mind.