My dd, 22 months has, as I've mentioned in another thread here, recently started getting distressed about going to bed at nap times primarily but also at bed time. I've been trying to work out why and there's nothing obvious like illness, pain, change of routine. She's clearly tired and has previously been a very good sleeper and we have a lovely long wind-down period day and night.
Anyway as she's quite a talkative little girl I've been trying to ask her in a general sort of way why she's been getting upset and she hasn't said anything much until today when she told me that she didn't like the noises she hears when she's alone in her room in the dark. Her words: 'horrible noises, Eva no like it on own in dark, scared of noises.' We live in a towerblock and it's true there are some weird noises which pass down the concrete girders. But there's not much I can do about it. She's come up with her own solution and I wondered what other people think of it. She's asked me to put her fan on in her room which gives a kind of gentle background buzz and probably blocks out the more sporadic noises elsewhere. She even said 'fan pleez mummy, no noises, just fan' before her nap today. I've obliged and she's fallen asleep without a murmur both times. But is this just going to be another of those things that comes to haunt me later down the line?
Anyone heard of fan addiction before? :).
I've rambled. Sorry. It's a tendency. I could have summed this up in a sentence.