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2 year old sleep problems?
Anyone go/going through this?
DD has always been a pretty good sleeper - we did ferber when she was younger and she did great with it. She has always gone to bed very easily and slept all night - she has always been a super early riser, but we have gotten used to that.
In the last few months, she has been waking once or twice in the middle of the night and it just has gotten worse and worse. For the last week, she fights going to bed and wakes up to 5 times a night. When she does sleep, she is so restless and flails constantly and whimpering too. (I know this b/c I finally gave in and slept in her room).
The pedi said it's normal - but DD is so tired (she's only getting about 8 or 9 hours at night and it's not straight through).
Any tips? Anyone wanna commiserate?
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Re: 2 year old sleep problems?
She does still nap (anywhere from 1-2 hours). I can't imagine her not napping
She has always woken up crying, and that's what she does at night too. She just goes to her door (we have a gate there) and cries/yells for us. She doesn't want water (she will always take milk, but it's a comfort thing, not b/c she's thirsty and we try to not do that at night). She will ask to rock - I"m so torn on this. I don't want to create a new habit, but I really want her to sleep!
We do have a night light, but it's kind of dim - maybe we need something brighter for her. I'll try it. I feel like maybe she is scared, but I haven't asked her b/c I don't want to put the idea in her head, you know? I think she would tell me if she was - she knows the word and knows what it means...
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I know what you mean, sometimes I feel my questions put ideas in her head too... This is the one we have, they make a rechargable one too
https://www.amazon.com/MOBI-70162-Mobi-TykeLight-Blue/dp/B001ETWU4U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=baby-products&qid=1269446566&sr=8-2
Hmmm...have you looked back at Ferber to see what he says about toddlers? I have really only paid attn to the stuff applicable to infants so I can't remember if there might be anything helpful in there about a little bit older kids. Just a thought.
Can I blame my lack of sleep for not thinking of this sooner??
I forgot he talks about toddler stuff too - thanks for the reminder
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It seems like so long ago. It was sometime around 18 months- 2 years when Abby started having trouble sleeping. She had always been a rock star sleeper until then, started STTN at 7 weeks, and gave us no trouble at all as an infant.
She started waking at night crying, she has always been a happy waker so it was weird. I have always gone with if they wake during the night crying (not fussing a bit, but full on crying) I go to them. We could usually calm her and get her back to sleep without bringing her to our bed, but we also ended up bringing her to bed with us quite a bit too. It was really bad for several months, can't remember how long though. It did get better though.
Soon after that we figured out she has night terrors, not saying that was what it was originally though or that your DD has them. The night terros were really bad, "waking up" (she is not really awake) screaming her head off. The night terros were scary but they did not happen as often, only once a week or so vs the almost every night that we had gone through earlier.
I really do not have any suggestions. We did whatever it took to calm her down and get her back to sleep. It was rough for all of us but it did not last forever. Good luck!