...and I figured this can be normal because of developmental leaps, but geeze this is HARD. She's almost 3.5 if that matters. Her imagination is exploding, she's asking questions about anything and everything, and she's waking up every night now crying for me because she's scared of something (usually the dark, even though she has 3 night lights in her room). She practically didn't sleep her entire first year of life - just read my past posts and you'll know it was awful. lol But nobody prepared me for this now that she's older.
It's going on 3 weeks now, and I'm starting to lose my mind. Nothing in our life has changed to make her do this. She stopped napping, but now she's back to napping because she's so exhausted from staying up for hours every night and never resettling, even after my husband or I go back to bed. She doesn't have a lot of meltdowns for her age, at least I don't think...maybe 2-3 times a week. But now it's almost every day, and super intense, screaming at the top of her lungs, refusing to do anything. She's done great with potty training - she's been potty trained for almost a year - and now she purposefully holds her pee all day and tries to keep it from coming out with her hand when she finally goes. I'm just like...what the actual hell? My nerves are so shot now from her nightly wakeups and crazy emotions and I don't know what happened to my sweet girl. 😢 She's still super sweet, but extremely volatile now. Gah, I just want this to end.