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Clingy Toddler at night

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I plan to post this in Special Needs also as my daughter has Autism and Developmental delays, but I am hoping that you all may have some advice too. My 2.5 year old has slept in her own room in her crib or big girl bed just fine until the past few weeks. Just this week it has gotten worse. Some nights when I put her in her bed, she goes to the door crying and screaming after I leave, and sometimes she just plays. I usually just put her back to bed and eventually she settles and goes to bed fine.

About midnight lately, she wakes up so upset and crying and won't go back to sleep in her own room. I tried everything. I try letting her cry it out some, but she gets even more upset and then won't go back to sleep for hours. I rock her until she is pretty much out, but she wakes up two minutes after I leave screaming again. I tried laying down in her bed with her and she clings on to me for dear life, but keeps sitting up and crying every 5 minutes or so. The only place she is happy sleeping is in my bed now. We have a 4 month old who isn't STTN, so I am dying of exhaustion and have gotten lazy and let her sleep with us a few times, but now it has gotten to the point that I can't get her back to her own room once she wakes up.

Any advice?  I can't let her cry it out too much because we live in an apartment right now and she really screams.Is this a typical phase that kids go through? (we estimate that she is around 1 developmentally).  

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Re: Clingy Toddler at night

  • VespahVespah member
    edited September 2013
    My DD is going through the same thing right now. She has slept in her room as an amazing sleeper since 2 months old and all of a sudden last week a switch flipped and sleeping in general is a disaster. I feel your pain, I'm exhausted. The only thing we can get out of her is that her bed was yucky. We have tried a new bed, sheets, bed location, me sleeping in her room but nothing seems to break the 'yucky' bed. She actually won't even sleep in her room and goes ape-sh!t when we first had the problem and sent her back to bed. She has been sleeping on the couch all week, and if she wakes up in the middle of the night she will crawl in bed with us (of course I then need to leave as I can't sleep with her since she rolls around so much. Maybe this is a 2.5 year old phase? Our DD's are about the same age. Sorry I don't have any advice, but I'm right there with you hoping others perhaps have any advice who have gone through this already.
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