My 22 month old has always been a hyper kid that refused to sleep.  She basically nursed or screamed for the first 6months and her doctor said she was perfectly healthy.  I follow attachment parenting, she coslept until she wanted to be in her own bed at about 15 months.  She still wants me to sleep with her when she is teething, at least what I think is teething, however talking to other moms it doesn't seem normal.  She still has 7 teeth to come in yet and Im at my wits end, going on 4 hours of sleep for the last 2 months.  She wakes in the night and just screams and is completely irrational for between 2 and 4 hours until she finally poops herself back out and falls alseep in my arms for a little bit.  She will consciously fight falling asleep to nap, I have to try to drive or push her in her swing on her swingset so that she can't fight it and even then she'll usally scream and fight it right before she drops off.  She also talks a lot and moves a lot in her sleep when she does sleep.  These episodes will seem to happen around teething but will be for months, then she will finally sleep for 10 hours a day for about a week and then go back to the same senario.  I just don't know what I can do to help, I have tried all the typical sleep advice of routines and whatnot.  Is this some type of insomnia, or teething or just something else that  I can't figure out.  Her pediatrition says she's totally healthy.

Hi there.

You were right to check with your pediatrician first about all of this. Your situation goes beyond my expertise as a child care expert ("child care" meaning babysitting and nannying, which is what I focus on), so I'll have to direct you elsewhere.

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