Separation anxiety or regression?

[imaworrier]

My daughter turned 10 months on the 22nd of this month.. for the last three weeks, most nights have been awful for sleep. She wakes in the night screaming and sometimes won't sleep for hours.. one night was so bad she wouldn't sleep until 5am. We were giving her calpol as we thought it was teething but that was not working so we figured she wasn't in pain? She's slept great since two and a half months old barely needing us in the night but this is the worst it has ever been. Tonight, despite being tired from nursery she just would not go down to sleep in her cot and screamed. Now I feel awful as she's fallen asleep (after the 5th time trying) but I had to leave her crying for a few minutes :( is this a sleep regression or separation anxiety? How long will this last because it's even caused me to take days off work due to tiredness..

Is it overtiredness rather then regression or seperation anxiety??

I didn't think about this as she gets to sleep at nursery, she (usually) gets the right amount of hours she should at her age :(

Does she get the same amount of sleep at nursery as she does at home though?? My lo goes nursery and she doesn't sleep as well when she's there and all that stimulation she's knackered when she gets home.

Yes she sleeps exactly the same as she would at home, she has around a two hour nap in the morning and will then will usually sleep around 11-12 hours a night. She's just busier at nursery I guess than she is at home as I do not have any other children. When she wakes in the night she just wants to climb on us, not even sleep in our bed. Before if she woke up we'd calm her down in our bed and then she'd go straight back to sleep no problem but she's wide awake and screams in her own cot until we pick her up.

So lo only has one nap in the morning? No other sleep? What tome is this nap ?

She's been on one nap for a while now as she never wants to go for a second nap. I gave her a second nap on Sunday and that night she didn't want to sleep until 5am. It's around 10:30 until 1:30-2pm ish, her morning nap

1 nap at 10 months is pretty unusual. Have you tried putting her down for a nap around 2-2.5 hours after she wakes in the morning? Just 30 mins, wake her up after, and then next nap 3-3.5 hours or so after she wakes from first nap. second nap can be around 1.5 hours. It might be she doesn't need it, but the constant unsettling does sound like overtiredness.

I haven't tried that no, I've just been following her readiness for naps in the day and it's been totally fine up until now :( when my other half got her from nursery today she had just gone down for a nap though and they had to wake her.. this was around 6pm

I would be doing what pp said. It's not un heard off with 1 nap at that age. But unusual.
30 to 45 mins, even an hour morning nap around 930am. Then 3 to 3.5 hours later another nap. Capping by 4pm around 2 hours nap for this one. 4 hours later bed. We put our lo to bed between 730pm and 8pm. That first nap will be a bit trail and error to see what works with the afternoon nap initially.

Well. I had this argument with nurseries. I said you need to follow what I tell you. Not what you want. Sounds horrid but I tried all the niceness back and forth.

Sounds awful, sorry aOP. Mi e has been a pretty frequent waked always, but when she’s been really frenzied and upset it’s been over tiredness I think. Who knows though? Hope she pulls through it soon. Xx