21 m old Waking in the night

[Christy111]

Hi ! I am hoping someone can give some help! I’m posting on behalf of my daughter whose 21 month old little girl is a demon during the night! She needs help to go to sleep but usually goes within 20 mins but then wakes in the early hours and won’t settle back to sleep. This is often repeated several times in the night and sometimes will be awake for a couple of hours. My daughter is desperate for sleep herself!!! How can she break this cycle? Thanks all!!!

Hi! Could it be teeth? My DD is 20 months and has recently been through a stage like this where she will wake for a few hours overnight, needing to be held and bopped and shhhhhd but just can't drift back off. The only thing I found helped was keeping on of pain relief and offering support when needed. It will pass!

Thank you! I think it’s been going on too long for it to be her teeth but I’ll pass this on!!! She just doesn’t seem to need much sleep! She’s also given up her afternoon nap too!!

You say she needs help to go to sleep - what does this involve?

She won’t sleep unless her mum is with her and soothing her until she drops off. Then wakes in the night and won’t go back to sleep. I think she needs to learn how to self settle but not sure what she should do

What do you mean by soothing her? What actually happens to get baby from fully awake to fully asleep?

(I dont know if you actually know this from your daughter, or not)