17 Month Old - Now a terrible sleeper

[Dezperate]

My 17 month old has become an absolute nightmare during the night....she is exhausting both me and my husband and nothing seems to work!

She has never been eh best sleeper in terms of going through the night without waking at all - not a fan of sleeping unless exhausted. She generally has one or two naps a day and is ready for bed between 18:30 and 19:30. Her bedtime routine is:

Bath
Milk
Sleep

Usually she is still a little awake when she goes to bed and drops off quickly. sometimes she wil cry after 10 minutes but giving her a dummy or cuddly baby toy solves it and she drops off.

Previously she would sleep through until around 6am although would occasionally wake around 3am - quickly putting a dummy back in for her would get her back t sleep without an fuss!

About 6 weeks ago she started not wanting to sleep at bedtime - properly screaming/wailing, standing up in her cot etc. It could take her until 21:00 to get off with us taking turns to cuddle/rock her or just let her scream it out... She had started nursery (which she loves) two mornings a week and had picked up flu/colds, which had really disturbed her at night.

This was followed by lots of waking at night - sometimes as early as 10pm, but usually around midnight then 2am 4m 6am. About 3 times a week she would be completely up at 2am and it wuld take until 4am to get her back to sleep - rocking her, giving her milk. Very occasionally, as a last resort we have put her in our bed but she won't sleep there either - just clowns around throwing herself about.

We are getting completely exhausted by this, nothing seems to work and she is getting more and more tired. We live in a semi detatched house and it must be really disturbingour neighours too.

Its a real shame as she is generally an absolute angel during the day - if she could just sleep a bit better or even more consistently

Does anyone else have a similar problem and can anyone suggest a way to solve this?

Thanks

Dez

My Dd age 16 months has just gone through a stage like this. It got to the point where I was exhausted as dh worked nights it was down to me. Eventually one night I got cross and everytime she stood up and cried I lay her down and said no shouting it is bedtime.
Amazingly she seemed to understand - I think she cleverly worked out how to get my attention and was playing up to it.
Previously she had been a good sleeper, anyway after I twigged that there was nothing 'wrong' with her and kept ignoring her protests she now sleeps beautifully again. It was hard at the time coz she woke the older dc's one night.

She started waking when getting her back molars at about 15 months.

Hi same here.

Dd2 is 15m and has gone back to night waking again. I think it is the back molars the last one is nearly through.

Just adding my sympathy really (in a tired way!)

Crikey - I've been going through this for the past 2 months (DD is now 15 months) and has got 4 of her back molars but aren't there another 4 to arrive? Teeth have a lot to answer for!

BTW - DD has never been a great sleeper either but I could put up with 1 or 2 waking sessions per night. It's the every 2 hours or so which is the killer.

we too like this- dd doesnt sleep till she drops! then wakes after an hour and comes in with us- nightmare- should i cc? prob is she shares room with dd1??