Hi All, up until a couple of months ago we've been incredibly lucky and our DD (2yrs 7 months) has been a fab sleeper. She stopped napping at around 24 months, but since then our well established bedtime routine worked as it always has and she was settled in bed, asleep by 7.15-7.30 at the latest most nights and sleeping through for 12-13 hours.
We relocated three months ago (new house, bedroom, bed and nursery) and I am currently 32 weeks pregnant. The move went well and all things considered DD coped with it fantastically.
BUT, over the last two months she has gone from happily self settling and sleeping through to refusing to go to sleep unless one of us stays with her until she is asleep, and waking up in the night at least once, but often multiple times, which results in hysterics as the parents who was there when she fell asleep is no longer there. Which ever parent goes to her to settle her, she wants the other one (we never swap on her demand, only if the resettle has been going on for an hour or more unsuccessfully, and that's just to save the sanity of the parent!)
Last night for example, one of us stayed with her to go to sleep, which took nearly an hour, then at 2am she was awake for 90mins, after which she basically exhausted herself sobbing while my DP took her into the spare room and CoSlept with her there (prior to this we never bedshared when she was a newborn/baby, and only ever coslept when she was ill).
Her having a nap in the day seems to make very little difference. Every night is the same, and we are shattered, and at our wits end. I am also terrified how I am going to manage this with a newborn in a couple of months time as I will be having an Elective CS.
We've tried being firm, or stsying with her until she is sleepy but awake and explaining we are going and she needs to sleep, but the result is always the same.. Massive, screaming hysterics and two tired, stressed parents!
Please help!!!