Why is my 2yo waking up screaming SO early in the morning?

[Beauchamp]

DD will be 2 in June. She sleeps on a twin mattress on the floor in our room for nights. Lately she's been waking up SO much earlier (she normally sleeps until 8-8:30) like 5:30-6am. When she wakes up, she is automatically screaming and then starts yelling at me and DH to go out the door, get up, etc. She's hysterical. She won't let us touch her.

She/we reluctantly stopped nursing around 20-22 weeks PG, so that's not a factor anymore.

I'm due in early June with baby #2, and I am really feeling the effects of losing this sleep. Help! How can I get her to sleep in longer? WHY is she doing this? This morning she screamed us all awake at 5:30, and I ended up finally able to rock her in the chair. After an HOUR of rocking, she fell asleep against me. I laid her in her bed and she slept....for 12 minutes.

Help..thoughts...advice?...I am exhausted and starting to get terrified of the new baby coming.

[goldenwillow]

Sorry to hear your LO is having a rough time, that is no fun. 

Could it be terrors? 

I will find a thread that helped us through.  Turned out that DS just didn't like wearing socks while sleeping. 

http://www.mothering.com/community/forum/thread/1262328/night-terrors

Lady Lilya has some great advice. 

Does your child watch TV/DVDs?  Maybe saw something not so positive? 

[ChristyMarie]

I was also thinking night terrors.  Or, if she is super hungry her blood sugar could be really low.

I wanted to let you know that my son went through this too.  I never did figure out what it was and not much made it better but he did grow out of it.  There's hope, just hang in there.