Is anyone else going through the same thing? I need to know if it is ''normal''. Our 28 month old has never been a good sleeper. He has been one of them kids that wakes a lot through the night but he seemed to start to settle around 2 years and now all of a sudden he will wake up, realise we are not in the room and literally scream the house down as if he is possessed by the devil until we go in the room. The screaming is so bad I am expecting the neighbours to call the police thinking we are torturing our child.
We have always sat with him to nod off which may be the issue here. He will go on screaming like this from 10pm till 2am. We try doing the ''gentle parenting approach'' by going in saying lie down and leaving again but last night it went on so much that I had to just put white noise on in the end and let him scream which is heart-breaking but me and my husband are at our wits end. My husband slept on the floor the previous night just so I could get rest as I am 8 months pregnant. We cant have him in our bed as we will have a new baby soon and also I have a massive pregnancy pillow to sleep that could suffocate him.
We both have no idea what to do. Do we carry on the hard way and ignore him? Do I call a doctor? Or is that just silly. When we go in it seems to start him off again back to step 1 when we leave.
Other people i.e. my friends have said oh yes I remember them days but I feel like they may not have had it as bad. Some of their children don't behave like this. I'm about to go and see a priest and get some holy water or something. I'm constantly crying because of the exhaustion of being pregnant and he is being pretty hard work in the days as well. I find myself feeling so angry towards him but then feel really guilty that I let myself get so wound up when he is obviously just a 2 year old. Any more advice would be good. He used to nap in the day for 2 hours but we have cut that to around 1 hour and fifteen minutes in case it was too much. He definitely still needs his naps or its even worse. He can be the sweetest boy in the day but turns in to the devil at night and he is good at communicating in the day but in the night he will just scream and not talk.