My dd, had been a wondeful sleeper since she was 3 months old, now all of a sudden, she throws a screaming fit if I try to put her down for a nap or at bedtime in her crib...it started 2 weeks ago when i went to put her in her crib for her morning nap..she started hysterically crying so I pulled her out, because it was so unusual fro her...before this her routine was to wake around 7 am, go down for her first nap about 10 for about 1.5 hr, then get up and take another nap around 2:30 for another 1.5 hr. and go to bed around 7:30 pm and be down for the night...there would be the normal 10-15 min. of settling in type of crying, but nothing like what she has been doing now...
She never fell out of her crib, I don't think its teeth, cause she's fine when I pull her out..I feel like we've tried everything, we've tried letting her cry, we've tried going in every half hr to reassure her without picking her up, we've pulled her into our bed a few times when it got to be that she had been crying for 4 hrs without letting up,..for about a week now either my dh or I have been lying on a mattress in her room until she falls asleep, but she's been waking in the middle of the night and one of us has to go back in there with her..at this point I think she is still too little for her toddler bed, so I've been thinking about letting her sleep on her mattress until she is ready for the toddler bed, if anyone has any advice, I'd love to hear from you...thank you..
Kristin