We've always had the same routine for our daughter. Two weeks ago, she started having a very hard time falling asleep without me there. After we read a book, I tuck her in and snuggle her for a few minutes, only now when I get up to leave she grabs on and says, "Mom I need you," or "Don't leave me," or "Snuggle me." She literally clings on and won't let me leave. If I stay until she is alseep things are fine, but if I just get up and go, she has a meltdown. Crying for an hour or so before falling alseep. If my husband put her to bed, she now screams and crys for me as well. Very frustraiting.
I thought it was a phase since she never did this before, but it's going on for about 2 weeks now and I can't take it anymore. I want her to be independent and fall asleep on her own but I can't handle her crying for an hour because it cuts into her sleep time and she wakes up tired and crabby.
Has anyone had this happen to them? What did you do?
Re: 2.5 yr old suddenly can't fall asleep alone.
We had a breakthrough this weekend when DD spent the night with her grandparents. She knew I wasn't there and MIL just put her to bed, told her she would see her mom in the morning and that was pretty much that. DD cried for less than five minutes.
So back at home we are on night three of re-training her. After 1 hour of crying and getting out of her bed the first night, I finally put a baby gate across her door. She was wearing me down and I was nearly in tears myself so it was either give in and crawl in to her bed to try something more drastic. She cried five more minutes then walked herself back to bed. Slept through the night.
Night two she started down the same path. So I explained to her hat if she got out of her bed once more I was going to have to put the baby gate up. I repeated that about five times before leaving. She did get up and laid down on her hallway and fell asleep. But I walked her back to her bed and she fell asleep.
Honestly I do feel like DD needed me for a time. So I am now more in the camp of be there for them when they cry out for you. We got lucky with that window of opportunity though is can't say for sure how it will turn out in the long run other than to hope that she won't need me to sleep by the time she is in college.
Progress... she used to wander in 3 times/night. Hope phase is over soon!
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