Ok so first Miss M was waking during the night around midnight and took about 2 hours to go to sleep. Not too bad if we went to bed around 10ish, then got woken up, and then we would still sleep from 2 -6. Not a problem.

Now - she wakes up at any time from 11pm or midnight - and doesn't go back to sleep until at least 4am. During this time she screams, cries, whinges, switches to being happy and wanting to play - and its driving us nuts!!!

I need more than 2 hours sleep a night. Even 4 would be better. This morning I am so tired that I feel like vomiting.

My mum told me to give her some panadol when she is like that. But every time I do give her panadol or nurofen (thinking it could be her teeth), it seems to perk her up and she's awake for more hours.

Last night (well early this morning) was our worst night in a while. I mean, every night is bad, but we used to get at least 2 hours sleep in a row (4am to 6am). Last night, I don't think we got any sleep before she woke up - and then I went out of the bedroom at 1.30 to go to the toilet and she just screamed muuuuummmmy muuuuummmy, even though DH was holding her at the time. We then put her into bed with us (and moved DS over to the other side of the bed) and she lay there for about half an hour, and I thought she was going to go to sleep, but nope, then she started jumping around on our heads, giggling - things like that. So DH moved her into the cot again - and she started screaming again.

Eventually he went out to the loungeroom at 3am and she fell asleep on his chest. Of course then I was so overtired that I couldn't actually get any sleep, so I had just fallen asleep when he came back in at 4.45am. He tried to put her in the cot to keep sleeping, and she woke up and started screaming again. He couldn't settle her down, so took her back out to the loungeroom - and she fell asleep on his chest again. Then finally I fell back asleep and DS woke up at 6am.

What is wrong with her? And what can I do??!?!? We have her in the cot next to our bed with the side down, so its like she is sleeping with us, but its not good enough. Pain relief makes her even more awake.

Last night DH suggested Phernegan (sp?) and I know he's not serious, but oh man, the thoughts that run through your head at the time!! I wanted to shove her in the cot and push it to her bedroom and was tempted to let her cry it out (which I never wanted to let her do as I feel I destroyed DS as a baby for doing that because I didn't know any better way of parenting).

We try everything, and nothing is working. I need sleep. DH needs sleep.

Please help me