Hi there,
I’m after some advice. I have posted before and always received some great nuggets!
My nearly 15 month old has suddenly developed an extreme aversion to her room/going to sleep. She has always gone down pretty happily and needed minimal intervention from us, but now as soon as she’s put down, she will scream and scream. It’s not like she wants to be picked up or for someone to stay with her - I’d be happy to do these things - it’s just she wants to be out of her room. We did try that early on, but as soon as she’s out and doing something else, she still cries. We feel like we are going a bit mad!
The only thing we can do is leave her and keep checking her - some strange form of controlled crying which we never planned on doing. She does eventually sleep this way, but is up again in 1-3 hours and then we have the same, very distressed crying and the cycle of checking and leaving over and over begins again.
We honestly just sit outside her door not knowing what to do. It’s such an extreme change to what she was like a few weeks ago. Yes, she did wake a couple of times but went back down with a little breastfeed and that was that. Now breastfeeding, or anything else we have tried, is not what she wants.
Has anyone experienced anything similar? I should say that I have taken her to the doctors to be checked over - she’s in perfect health. The doctor said she may be feeling under the weather and to give her calpol in this case, but surely I can’t do that all night every night, not that it makes much difference anyway.
Any thoughts would be be really appreciated. Many thanks!!