My two year old won't sleep
Whilst in a cot, my daughter always slept through the night. Although she did used to wake very briefly every night. I can only descibe them as minnie night terrors, as she used to scream for approx 1 min then take herself back to sleep.
When she reached 2 1/2 we moved her into a bed and she slept well, but sometimes done the same, but I was not concerned, I never had to go into her.
Then we went to the usa for a holiday. She had a huge night terror that lasted about an hour on the plane, which was terrible. On the 3 week vacation she had little night terrors every night. I had to share a king bed with her, but this still did not help with her sleep. I know she was proberly out of sink with the time differnce and all of the excitement. One night in particular she had a night terror every 20 minutes !
I put it down to being in a strange bed, but we have been home for 6 weeks and it has contuined in her own bed. I have had to put a stair gate up at her door as although sometimes she was having night terrors and I heard her, sometimes she was just coming into my room in silence and I was worried she would walk round the house and I would not hear her. She has had a bad case of tonsilitous with a temperature and that made the situation worse. She was having bad night terrors about every hour all through the night. I put it down to her being so poorly. She has recovered now, but just seems to be in a terrible sleeping pattern, of sleeping for about 2 hours, then waking and crying at the gate about every hour through the night. Making different excuses, tummy ache, drink, needs a wee etc but normaly letting me put her straight back to bed without much fuss, until the next time. I am excusted and do not know what to do, please help.