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Toddler is all of a sudden afraid of everything. HELP!!!

andread40andread40
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I need advice. My daughter is 27 months and all of a sudden she seems scarred of everything when it's time for bed at night. What happened was on Tuesday morning around 3 in the morning she woke up crying and I let her cry for awhile and then I went in to go rock her back to sleep but she didn't want to rock so wanted to leave her room so I told her that we could go downstairs to sleep in the bedroom downstairs. (The only time she has ever slept with us was when we were on vacation) We probably slept for 45 min when she woke up saying "mama" and then she looked around and she got freaked out about something. She started to scream and shake. I'm thinking she saw the blankets that were bunched at the end of the bed. But ever since then I can not get her to go to sleep anywhere not even in my room with me. It seems like once its time for bed all her fears come out. I can't even get her to nap during the day. She will not even let me rock her to sleep anymore. I have to standup and hold her until she falls asleep which right now is hard because I'm 5 months pregnant. My husband says to just let her cry herself to sleep because he thinks that she is playing me right now. It just breaks my heart to see her like this. So has anyone else experienced this and if so what did you do? Thanks in advance. 
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  • Linz-ELinz-E member
    We moved to a new state in September. My daughter was terrified of her new room about a week after we moved in. One night I slept in there with her (In her CRIB mind you). I wanted her to know it was safe and mommy could sleep well in her room too. The next morning I took her on a mommy date and we went to barnes and noble and bought some books about sleeping in your new bed/room and bought one of the cloud b projection night lights. She loved it. She did cry for two nights and it sucked!!! Think this crazy petrified look on her face, sweating, screaming her head off. I just went in often told her she was safe and we loved her.  It worked. Shes been sleeping better than ever in her room. We also increased the time we spent in her room during the day. Good luck, its tough! 
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  • boggs507boggs507 member
    My little guy has recently been telling me about "scary things." He also won't walk into dark places by himself, or into his closet to get a book, etc.  Glad to know I'm not alone.
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  • cafelatte01cafelatte01 member
    My DD is also 27 months old and we have the same thing going on. She all of a sudden needs a night light and has been waking 23 times a night saying she's scared. We have offered to have her sleep with us but she declines and says she wants to stay in her crib.
    She always talking about the dark even during the day she needs me to turn the lights on for her in any room she needs to go in.
    I figure its a phase just like everything else, as soon as you figure it out it'll all change!
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