3.5 year old sleep HELPPPP

My dd has always been a pretty great sleeper. 12 hours overnight. She cut naps at 2 but always slept 12 hours overnight. 730-730.
For over the past month her sleep has been absolutely horrendous.

She got a cold so of course it affected her sleep, but more than any other cold EVER did.
Then when the cold passed she had a lingering cough (nothing, that in my opinion would be keeping her up) but she was fighting bedtime, I mean crying and carrying on she doesn't want to go to bed. And then waking earlier and earlier. 630 1 day, 615 the next, 545 after that.
Shes exhausted, her eyes have these faint red and dark circles where she looks tired all day. Her behavior is atrocious. She is completely out of control if she doesn't get her way.
I tried pushing bed time back, then up and now back again. Because if we do our usual routine at the usual time its an hour-hour and half of rolling around, talking, procrastinating (I have to pee, I have to poop, I need water, my pjs hurt)... BUT wont let me leave the room. Totally goes ballistic if I leave the room.

Shes sleeping from like 8pm to 6am. Sometimes she wont fall asleep until after 8. She just lays in bed fighting sleep for an hour at times. And if shes sooo exhausted she passes out during the day she wont go to bed until 9 and then still wakes between 6-630. So it just makes bedtime even worse.
And the next day is even more horrible than the previous day.

Im at my wits end. Its tantrums from the second she wakes until the second she goes to bed. Its not leaving my side (separation anxiety is severe at this point)... It makes it feel like a VERY LOOOONG day... And its a hard day for me. I just don't get to breath. I don't get time to myself anymore.

The second she wakes up shes screaming for me or coming into my room and wont go back to bed no matter what I do. I can lay with her, I can bring her in my bed she just lays there. She used to wake in the morning and roll around for 20 minutes.
Its like she cant sleep, like shes restless. And I just have no idea what to do.

Message edited 11/10/2015 10:50:33 AM.

3.5 year old sleep HELPPPP

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Re: 3.5 year old sleep HELPPPP

I'm going through something similar. My 3.5 y.o. DS was always a good sleeper. In the last month, he has been waking up several times a night. He keeps trying to get into our bed. Lately, I've been giving up and letting him sleep with us because I am so exhausted. Maybe they're going through a growth spurt??

If you get any good advice, please pass it on.

Good luck!

3.5 year old sleep HELPPPP

Thanks good luck to you too... ive had zero advice and im losing my mind. Today was another bad day. She went to bed last night at 8 and was up at 6am. Throwing huge epic fits for every little thing.

I just ordered the clock that tells.them when they can get out of bed. Im gonna try that to see if it helps any.

Between lack of sleep and her separation anxiety at severe all time high im gonna lose it.