DD has been screaming for over an hour. Tried everything. It is driving me insane. someone please help!

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DD (15 months) has never been a great sleeper but the last week has been awful. She woke up at 9.30, gave her a cuddle, calpol as she is teething and eventually gave in and gave her some milk. She seemed right as rain but wide awake. Tried to give her a cuddle and put her back but she just pushed me away. I have never left her to cry but she just does not seem to want to be pacified. She is screaming her head off shouting dada and mama and we have been into try and calm her down and it just makes it 10 times worse. I just don't know what to do apart from get her up and take her for a drive. But that won't work because I have had a glass of wine. I am soooooo tired I can't think straight and its awful listening to her scream but I just can't calm her down.

What shall I do?

oh god, poor you. totally sympathise. Will she come into bed with you & settle down?

No, she never settles in bed with us as she thinks it is playtime!

Put in buggy/pushchair and walk? Perhaps a change of scene for her will calm her down (apparently used to work for me...)

ds was like that. Keep chanting 'this is a phase, this is a phase'
helps me no end

good luck

switch on a dvd. it's not perfect parenting but you sound like you need a break and she needs to calm down/zone out. and then tomorrow invest in some medised, which is like a knock-out version of calpol.

Is she too hot? Its probably her teeth driving her crazy. I know its stressful when you wanna go to bed and they won't give up.

well, just trying to find the teletubbies DVD and all has gone quiet (it was either that or the buggy but it is peeing down with rain here). I think she has cried herself to sleep. Which makes me feel awful, but in all honesty, I just couldn't deal with her tonight. She is normally easy to pacify, even when she is upset in pain.

redcherry - I think that might have been the problem in the first place tbh. It is so hard with these nights at the moment to get it right.

Aitch - I had run out of medised. Definetely on my list for tomorrow night, I need some sleep.

Don't feel bad you just have to let them cry sometimes.

I know, that is what DH said. We really had done everything we could and she was fine. I had to come and shut myself away in the end so I couldn't hear her!

never, neeeevvvvvuuuuurrr run out of medised. mmmm, lovely medised.

I would give her some infant tylenol.

ooh I just read the ran out of medicine part.

Medised.

5ml.

She won't like it at first.

So put some icing sugar in it.

Dip the syringe in icing sugar. It will stick b/c teh Medised is sticky. It's also bitter.

Dip your finger in golden syrup. Then in icing sugar.

Give her to suck.

Then dip the syringe in icing sugar.

really? dd loves medised. i quite like it too. baby nurofen, otoh, disgusting.

Both DDs hated it after about 18 months.

Would pull this boak thing.

Icing sugar all the way!

Wee fykes.

we've never used a syringe, dd loves the spoon because being cruel BLWers she never really saw them much. we do it in the bath, less mess.

Better that way, Aitch, in the bath.

DD1 is SN, and she's been known to get herself into such a state with meds she boaks.

She had hair down to the middle of her back, so the bath is the way to go.

But with DD2, who is NT, is a matter of bribe now.

Things to keep to hand: Scarlett's Blossom Honey.