it's nearly 3 am. up yet again with dd. How do I change this before I collapse?

[ErnestTheBavarian]

So dd goes to bed at 7.30/8.

All too often, say 3 or 4 nights a week she wakes up about 12 and just screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams until I finally give up and get her up.

Then about 5 ish she might go to sleep, leaving me with about 2 or 3 hours sleep a night.

I am really depressed about it. The kids are on holidays, so I have 4 to cope with all day with no respite.

The amount of day time sleep she has, the time of her nap, nothing seems to make any impact.

She will be 2 in June btw.

I have tried cc so going in every 5 mins, min. contact etc she just gets angrier and angrier, screaming the house down and waking up dss & dh. I have tried just ignoring (v. hard). Honestly when she starts up it's like a knife in my heart.

Tell me somebody please how to deal with this.

She is my 4th, but I never had anything like this with ds1, 2 or 3.

I cannot live on 2 or 3 hours sleep.

definately drop the nap.

someone i know had the same problem and she started gently waking her wee one approximately an hour before the time they usually woke up... they were still sleepy enough at that time to not want to get up so would settle themselves back to sleep. somehow, this prevented her from waking up at the usual time and she started sleeping through.

might be worth a try.