HELP! 21 month old sleep issues!!

What is going on?! DD has always been a pretty good sleeper unless she's sick or teething but the past few weeks or so she's turned into a monster at night! Lately I've been up with her at least a couple of times a night and often it's taking me 2 hours to resettle her :o We've had to bring her into our bed several times just to get some sleep and as much as I love waking up with my little girl, DH and I quite like having our bed to ourselves. We've only co-slept a handful of times since DD was born and it's just not for us. DD has never needed it before so I really don't want that to be our 'solution' to her current sleep issues.

I'm really struggling with the lack of sleep and it doesn't help that she won't have a bar of her dad at all when she wakes at night. The one time I forced DH to deal with her (a few week ago) she spewed all over DH, herself and our bed :rolleyes: That incident has made things difficult to be a bit 'tough' on her now as she is getting herself so worked up that she gags and I don't want to be cleaning up vomit at 2am if I can avoid it.

DD has never been a clingy child but she's screaming out for me when she wakes and just clings to me until she falls asleep but then screams out as soon as I put her in her cot. When I bring her into bed with us, she has to lay on me which is proving uncomfy already for me at 13 weeks pregnant.

I just don't know what to do. I'm at my whitsend. Her routine hasn't changed, she's happy enough during the day and her day sleeps are fine (middle of the day sleep for 2-3 hours). I just don't get it :shakehead:

Any ideas? Sleep regression? Molars? Just a phase? HELP!

DS was doing something similar a few week back. I ended up taking him to a chiro and he's been good as gold ever since. *touchwood*

I think it's a common thing at this age. Could also be molars or a combination of the two.
My honest advice is just go with whatever works best so you can get some sleep - try the chiro or whatever too, by all means, but just bring her to bed with you if that makes it easier. Once this passes (and it will pass) she'll go back to her own room again. Maybe you can convince her to snuggle up next to you, rather than on top of you. I just kept shoving DS off till he got the message.

Hugs hun! I agree with MadB, do whatever you have to do to keep your DD from working herself into a state. It will pass (DS goes through stages like that too, without gagging/vomiting but stiil works him self up). I take DS to bed with us even though I end up with a sore back/head/neck most of the time, and he's usually OK after a few days. He's doing it again ATM, so I'm expecting a night visitor tonight :rolleyes:

:hug: we've got similar things going on here at the moment (actually I probably could've written your post word for word, except for the being 13 weeks pregnant bit LOL).

We're just going with the flow, I thinks thats all we can do, oh and keep repeating the mantra 'this too will pass'

Yeah, I was going to say 2 year old molars. I think it's just a phase that will pass shortly, as pp's say just do what you can to get through it.

:hug: You girls are awesome. I feel a bit better just reading your replies.

We've decided to take your advice and roll with the punches tonight. So if she plays up, she'll come into our bed and DH will go to the spare room so we can all catch up on some sleep.

If the issues continue, I'll take her to the chiro for a checkup - thanks for the idea Helle

I'm off to bed and chanting 'This too shall pass' as I go. Night all and wish me luck!

Probably not what you want to hear but our little guy (22 months) cracked it about sleeping alone after never co-sleeping before. He would wake up constantly and take hours of fighting to get him back to sleep. Having a newborn as well it was too much for me so we just go with the flow. He is put to sleep in his cot but when he wakes be just comes in and sleeps with us. Means I get more sleep. Dh and I don't really like sharing our bed but we know it won't be forever. Right now its what we need to do to get some sleep.

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