oh Sarah *hugs* When I was pregnant with Jovie and Matilda had just turned 2, she started waking overnight & being awake for hours & we would get 2 lots of sleep from around 3 hours each. Matilda would take 2 hours to get to sleep and then be awake for most of the night. I was exhausted. We were getting help through Triple P and there were a few suggestions for us:

1. She was asking for a dummy. She hadn't had one in over a year, and she was associating dummy with baby.

2. She struggled with the idea of me leaving her alone. So at night I would move slowly out of her room and then at night do the same. So start by sitting in a chair in the room facing another way and every few nights I moved the chair towards the door until I was standing in the hallway.

3. Try going cold turkey & going somewhere else to sleep. So they suggested I leave the house at night and let DH do everything. (we never tried it)

4. Put a mattress in her room and go in there to sleep, or put a mattress in our room for her to sleep on.

We tried putting a mattress in our room on the ground next to our bed. Matilda did well for a week & then starting trying to negotiate in the middle of the night (she wanted DH to sleep on the ground & she wanted to sleep on the bed with me, but only without him). So it turned into tantrums in the middle of the night, which was crazy. Then we put a mattress in her room and she kept trying to get in that mattress & kick etc and negotiate again... Finally our last straw before me going to sleep somewhere else was the dummy. We gave her a dummy and she started sleeping, instantly. She may have woken up for a few minutes but only once.... it was crazy. Now we can't get rid of it, but at the same time she's sleeping through.

She got worse when Jovie was sleeping in our room she wanted to sleep in our bed as well. We has a regression for a month or so but now that Jovie's in the same room as her, sleep is much better. I think I'm only up once at night now... imagine that!