So lately my daughter (who has never had sleep issues and has always slept on her own) has started to have serious anxiety about sleeping by herself. She will not go to sleep at night if I don’t lay day with her and she has to be touching me. Even then she still ends up in our bed in the middle of the night. She also needs me to lay with her to go down for a nap as well, none of this is normal for her. She has ALWAYS just wanted to be laid down and left alone. She likes her space at night 😂

I don’t mind that she needs me, and I will absolutely lay with her and hold her hand as much as she needs. But none of it started until she turned 3 last month. Is this a normal stage for 3 year olds to go through?