My 16 month old DD is an absolutely hellish sleeper - she has been since about 4 months. In desperation we did CC when she was about 11 months, it worked for a couple of months but she regressed badly so , after going with it for a while in the hope she'd get better on her own, we ended up doing CC again a few weeks back. It seemed to work quickly and we had a week or so of her going straight off at night and sleeping through.
But now we're having problems again. Every evening it takes around 40 minutes or so for her to go to sleep. Bedtime routine is quite babyish still, bottle cuddled up in the dark in her room then straight down in her cot. After a few minutes she then gets up, throws her dummy across the room and cries loudly. We go in and give her back her dummy, she stops crying straight away, lies straight down and we tuck her in. This pattern is then repeated for around 40 minutes until she finally goes to sleep. We don't talk to her at all when we go back in, just plug the dummy in, tuck her in and leave.
I'm wondering whether she needs a proper wind down in her room before bed, a couple of stories and a song or something?? What does everyone else do?
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LingDiLong · 17/10/2011 19:52
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