I feel so bad, DD1 has never been a great sleeper (I wrote a few threads about her sleeping before DD2 was born) and its just getting worse.

For the last 3 nights in a row - she has been awake from about 11pm to 4am. So DH and I are getting about 2 hours sleep.

Last night she came into our room around 11.30pm (after DH went to get us some towels from the linen cupboard, and knocked out two disc things that were sitting in there, they crashed to the floor and of course woke her up cos its right outside her bedroom) and we let her come into our bed, and she spent the next 4 hours whinging, grizzling, crawling around the pillows, headbutting us, complaining cos the sheets were on, complaining when they weren't, saying she was ouchie in her nappy area - it went on for hours.

At about 2am we were pretty sick of it, so I changed her nappy, put more nappy rash cream on (because she has an awful rash at the moment) gave her a bottle and put some nurofen in it (just incase she was in pain).

Come 3.30am and she is still doing the same old stuff, still whinging, still crawling around - arghh and we hadn't been asleep yet.

So I put her in her room - and she cried and cried and cried. I lay there in bed listening to her scream and it broke my heart I think I gave in after about 15 minutes, and went to her, she settled down and seemed to go to sleep. I went back to bed, 5 minutes later she started up again. So I went into her again. She resettled, seemed to go back to sleep.

I went back to bed and passed out because it was like 4am or something. Woke up suddenly at 4.30 with her SCREAMING - don't know how long she was going for because I was absolutely dead to the world. DH was too and he is more tuned into her crying than I am!!

So I tried to resettle, and it worked, then at around 4.45, DH had a turn and she finally FINALLY passed out at 5am. We then got up at 6.30.

Last night was by far the worst night because of the screaming, but I'm running out of ideas - and I need sleep. I've had 6 bloody hours sleep in the last 3 days!!

Help me find a gentle solution because nothing is working here. And I had visions last night of picking her up and chucking her against the wall so she would shut up - and that scares me