We have a lovely 20 month old. She has been pretty good sleeping through, going to bed with a set routine, settling herself with fairly minimal reassurance from us when she wakes up etc up until last week or so.
Now, for whatever reason, she has suddenly become very difficult. We have noticed she becomes stubborn and more difficult generally every time her language takes a jump, and certainly this week there is a new sentence every day. Plus she is full of snot bless her.
So now when she wakes up she screams her head off and is inconsolable. Repeatedly.
To add insult to injury, I am now on night duty at work (the rota is fixed) and will be for the rest of the week, and my wonderful partner is really struggling. He is exhausted and obviously quite stressed by it, but although I got his mum to come down for a few days (at my insistence) he is, in that man way, very reluctant to ask for help.
He has tried bringing her into our bed, but we both recognise that is not a pattern we want to create, but she does seem to settle when he does this.
Last night she settled when he sat with her in the dark for a few minutes, but tonight he has txt me again that she is screaming and screaming! By the time got message his phone was off which i hope means she is sleeping but who knows...
I would welcome any tips, both how to persuade our daughter to get back to her sleep routine and also how to manage the difficult balance between trying to help and not undermining him as a parent!
thanks
