I'm a broken woman!

[Annamadrigal]

Please help! DD is 20 months and slept really well until about 7 months. Every week she seems to find new ways of not sleeping and breaking my soul!

Currently she screams and screams and screams until she comes in our bed. Once in our bed she wriggles and writhes, asks for drinks, says she's done a poo (she hasn't) and then demands I get up at 5am. I had about 2 hours sleep last night and I can't do it anymore!

DS (4) was a nightmare sleeper until he hit 2 now he is spark out for 12 hours. The timings of this though mean I have had shit sleep for 4 years and I am honestly at end of my tether. I can't face another awful night but just don't know what to do. DD will just keep screaming until she gets her way and I don't know what to do. I can't face Christmas as we will be at my parents, sharing tiny bed in same room as DD and I know it'll be dreadful :(

I spent a horrible week de-programming my DD. I stood in her room, repeatedly putting her back into bed and not speaking. Took hours but after a week she stopped.

If yours is in a cot, I suggest you keep going in to say "It's time to sleep" in a dull monotone and ignoring all her protestations.

She is in a bed now as the cot just made her more angry :/. I just worry as she was getting hysterical last night- spent an hour in her room trying to settle her and she was screaming the whole time.

hopeful evening bump?

The bed doesn't seem to be being all that successful?

I'd go back to a cot and do as CheapSausagesAndSpam suggests. Keep tapping the mattress and telling her to lie down. Over and over and over and over again.