Demon Child

Right. Presently my child is standing up in her cot screaming her little lungs out.

It seems that little miss doesn't want to go to sleep.

Last night she went to sleep fine but then woke at 10pm and screamed and screamed and screamed. Tried to settle her in her own bed. Wouldn't sleep. Tried to snuggle down in my bed. Wouldn't sleep. Left her screaming in her cot and I have no idea how long she slept, if at all, but I woke at about 5am to her screaming again. Snuggled her in my bed and she finally went to sleep though managed to push me off the bed with her squirming.

I don't understand. She isn't teething and has never done this before. My only other idea is that she is scared of the wind but even that doesn't seem to be the case when I gauge her reaction to big gusts.

She is driving me nuts!!!

Hiya..dnt no if Im any good with giving advice but have you had her ears checked???sounds like she uncomfortable and quite often they wont want to lie down...it hurts more then.I suffered ear infections all my life from 5wks till 17yrs old and I no how agonizing it can be!!!laying down the worst and no sleep....may not be that thou...very upsetting when seems theres nothing you can do to make them happy eh

Hmmmmmm... it's a possibility but she hasn't got a fever or anything. If she does it again tomorrow I might get them checked.

I'm lacking sympathy because I think she is just being naughty.

I find with the boys that if they have an arvo sleep then i am stuffed for the night as they like to nap for up 2 1/2-3 hrs and then will be up all night. So now they go for a nap about 10am (after waking between 5-5.30am) and wake about 12.30-1ish. So i tire them out for the arvo and they go to bed great. This was proved when we had a coffee group yest and they didnt get to nap until 12.45 and woke just after 3. we spent the night playing yoyo toddlers!!!

It does make it much easier when they det older and can tell you what the prob is....although then they can play holleywoods too...Caleb has just started that....think its when he feels he not getting enuf attention.gd luck for tonight though.Im off to bed..have no idea how many times Ill be getting up tonight...think I sometimes sleepwalk to brookes bedroom and see to her cause somtimes I cant remember how many times or what times I got up to her...scary!!!!!

Maybe it IS just a phase Nikki, cause jake is being a bedtime bandit too. I put him down at 7. He goes to sleep as usual, then wakes up about an hour later and won't go back to sleep. So i go in and check on him, and he decides he's getting up and runs off. And I'm slower than him at the moment, so he thinks it's a great joke. Then we go back to bed, and he screams and screams and screams. I've taken to having a shower at that time and singing loudly cause it drowns out the noise. by the time I'm finished, he's either quieter, or asleep.
Are you sure she's not teething? Jake was really upset last week which i thought was hjim being naughty, then found an eye tooth poking up in his gums ( which i thought you were supposed to get after molars - not befoer).
I think by going in i started a trend. he knows now that if he cries enough someone will go in. But it is hard to let him cry, especially when he's sobbing. And in the past UI was "tough mum" only to find he was crying cause he had jammed his leg in the cot side.

ha Roxy i am going through the same right now - i swear i have amnesia most nights as to how many times i have woken up to ayja, since she is just in our room i can get her up when she first strats to cry, give her a feed ans tick her back into bed and that's it, but it's been at lest 3 times a night lately between 11pm and 6am, so that's a fair amount. I hope she's going through a growth spurt, cos once i go back on placement i am not going to want to be waking up so often!

weird, Joey is waking up twice a night at the moment too but luckily he only needs resettling and then he is back off to sleep.... Maybe it is a summer thing???

Whatever it is I hope it gets better soon Nikki I have no advice to give because I am a complete novice at this whole mama thing!!

my step-mum reckons the same thing about the win! I just found another tooth of jake's poking up, so maybe thats why he's been grumpy. Its funny though, when your baby is crying its like veryone you talk to is saying their child sleeps through the night every night since 3 days old, then you talk to Ohbaby and find out, no it's not just you and your child! Makes me feel better that others are suffering like me!

Hannah has been a bit weird with her sleep too. She been waking in the night but doesnt need a feed just needs to be resettled. Maybe it is the wind??