About a month ago both children had a mucusy cold that made them both sick, particularly at night. They are both over it, but now when we put DD2 down to bed she cries and is sick if we leave her. They have a bedtime routine, she has mummy milk then down into bed. If she's asleep from the milk she always wakes up after ten mins and has to be comforted, has a couple of songs, then left for ten mins at a time to go to sleep, this takes one to two ten minses. If she doesn't go to sleep from milk it's the same thing with a couple of songs then ten mins at a time. Now if she's left she just cries for two mins and then throws up. I'm sure she's over the cold. The head of her bed is raised to prevent reflux. I don't think she is having an unreasonable amount of milk.
She just lies there and stares at me, or cries if I stop singing, or sings and plays with the bars. She has us over a barrel. I am so sick of cleaning up sick.
After she's been sick, she's fairly calm soon, after the hairwashing and drying and dressing etc, has a tiny bit more milk and goes to sleep in ten minutes or so.
It is taking up to three hours to have this standoff before she gives in and drops off to sleep. Calpol has no effect.
She is at a stage where she is enjoying power and loves to win. Can she possibly be making herself sick? (remember Violet Elizabeth Bott?)
Any ideas welcome. I have started discussing suitable methods of infanticide with her. She thinks being thrown off a mountain sounds good.