22-month-old's forgotten how to get to sleep!

[Tori27]

My DD was ill with slapped cheek before Christmas, then we travelled a lot over Christmas, and now she struggles to settle herself. She wants us to stay in the room but as soon as we move (when we think she's asleep) she screams. And I mean really screams, as if being in real pain!

Other than this she is really good. She gets ready for bed fine but as soon as I try to leave I get the screaming or "Mummy Help please..." in pathetic tones to really pull on my heart. I find it so upsetting and have tried sleep training (which worked brilliantly in the past) but this is very different.

She's still in a cot and I was thinking about getting her a bed, but I can't while she's like this. Any ideas?

Bump.

Got the exact same problem here with 23 month old - she alredy in her own bed so just comes to to the safety gatee at top of the stairs and screams (like she is doing now) also if we venture upstairs to use the loo when she (eventually) goes to sleep she wakes up straight away and it starts all over again - the same when we go to bed.

No advice sorry but I know what your going through. Any advoce would be much appreciated [hmn]

I had this for a while with my ds - I used Tracey Hogg's baby whisperer for toddlers techniques (can't remember all the details - sorry!) but check out her website (babywhisperer) and you'll get it all there. Worked quite quickly as I recall. I think our problem was triggered by the last molars coming, and giving him some Teetha before I left the room helped as I remember. Good luck!

Weve had this with our 22 month dd this last week. Shes in her own bed, has been for quite some time now. She has always slept since a baby very very well and weve been so lucky having 2 hour naps in the day and 7pm-7/8am through nights no problems. She used to love getting ready for bed, having milk, brushing teeth and climbing in saying goodnight etc but now as soon as we try and leave the room shes screaming, if we manage to get downstairs she will come to the stairgate throw her dummy over and scream. Annoyingly she has a few times done her poos around 8pm ish when weve tried to put her down at 7pm so think this could have caused some of the problems with her staying up.
Tomorrow night we are going to try and change the routine to the usual bath get ready etc but then brush her teeth, let her have her milk in bed whilst we read th story and hopefully she will settle better.
Looking through alot of the posts under this sleep section it looks like an age thing as well as alot of people have posted about this happening around a similar age..... hope its just a phase that will soon past, its only been a week and it so hard already!!
I wouldnt mind so much but she does the same thing on her lunchtime nap, with the scream and refusing. I dont mind her dropping this as I think she may be trying to but she either gets so tired by the 4th day and needs that nap back where she is missing out on the sleep at night or she naps and her night sleep is messed up again!!!
Do I drop it or not? someone said shed be more tired at night and find it even harder to sleep?