Advise please - 19 month old gone weird!

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I have 19 month old twins...sympathy please! Which have followed GF since 8 weeks old - but suddenly my DD is having sleep problems. It appears to have started a few days after she trapped her finger in a door (not badly) but she still goes on about it 3 weeks later holding up the affending finger saying 'door door'. I always had to wake her at 7am (unlike her 5-6am gibering brother) now she wakes anytime from 5am screaming. The same happens at lunchtime nap she used to chat to herself after sleeping for 2 hours - now she sleeps for 30-60mins wakes instantly and screams and is grumpy all day due to lack of sleep. Then it started when going to bed and in the night,waving that finger again in the air, but I managed to knock that on the head with controlled crying, but can't seem to stop the unhappy wakings. What do you think has turned a happy baby into hysterical when she enters a light sleep..anyone else had their baby turn weird?

You have my sympathy, I've been there, done it, bought the t-shirt. Are you sure that her finger is ok, is it bruised maybe or causing her pain, or if not is she teething or anything.
Its just that from what you have written she seems to be connecting pain with waking up, I don't know it is only a suggestion.

I would have the finger checked out if I were you. It sounds like it might still be hurting. Other than that, I don't know what to suggest. It must be hard with twins.

If it were me (after getting her finger checked) I'd try a homeopath. They have remedies that can be very effective for "traumas" if that's how she's seeing it. Maybe, when it was painful it used to wake her and now she assosciates the two things. HTH

Thanks everyone - the finger is definately ok I think it maybe has made her feel somewhat vunerable, I'm just hoping she will go back to her happy self. The suggestion my mother made was that she was angry she had been asleep. Apparently my brother used to run round the house like a mad thing for a few minutes when he woke up from his nap - and he recalls an early memory of being annoyed because he thought he may have missed something!!!! Droile - yes it is hard with twins but in another way it has its benefits as they are good company for each other. How old is everyone else's little ones?