My 23 month old never slept through the night until 16 months. Since then she’s always been an early riser (530/6) but now is waking at 12 and won’t go back to sleep and is up from 4 if we do manage to get her to sleep.
We had to remove the side of her cot last week because she was climbing out when She woke screaming and we were scared she’d hurt herself.
On Friday she wouldn’t go down and eventually we left her to scream, watching her on the baby monitor and going in and putting her back into bed every 5 mins. She wailed for 2 hours solid and eventually slept at 9pm and was awake at 3 for the day. When I took her into her room on Saturday morning for something she had a complete melt down and clung to me.
She’s also started screaming the minute you run the bath and she loved it before.
She also bit a child yesterday.
Generally (with the exception of Friday) she’s okay going down but keeps waking up and won’t go back over unless you either take her into bed or put her in the pram and even then she doesn’t always!!
What can I do? I feel like a terrible mother. We haven’t changed her routine and there is no other big changes (apart from taking the side off the cot but she had started waking in the night again before that.)
My sisters all have babies that sleep and make me feel awful. She also has CMPA but I don’t think it’s that!
Sorry for the long sleep deprived ramble !!