Just to give me some hope..

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At what age did your ds/dd start sleeping a little longer and were there any tips you found worked to help them sleep day or night?

mine always slept, but i have a strict no pander policy - bed - sleep or be bored and sleep - babies included.

i know i need my time to function properly as a human being. without the corerct amount of sleep i am of no use to my child.

routine. same time, same feed time. same time for bath. same time for pJs same time for story/song same time for bed. its a wind down process

Ditto custardo. Also, if they get up. Just put them straight back with no conversation or eye-contact - unless they're ill of course! Be consistent, that's my golden rule. HTH

Mine have always gone to bed no problem - but they always get up early!!
Any ideas for making thme sleep in (apart from a rubber mallet) would be much appreciated!!
As long as you can get them in bed nice and early with no fuss, I wouldn't worry - you can't have it both ways!

Same as custy. When ds was a few weeks old, I started trying to get him to tell the difference between day and night. I didn't talk to him when I went into him at night, and kept lights low, etc. He slept through with one night time feed from about 8 weeks onwards.

Now he is 20 mths, and goes to bed at 7.30 every night with a bath/milk/story routine. He does often lie there and sing to himself for a while, but once he's in bed that's it, I don't go into him unless he were to be really upset for some reason.

my ds is 6vweeks and i'm trying to start a routine, but with not much sucess, we have a set bath time going to bed ritual but once she's fed and in bed she's wide awake and will scream the place down after 10 mins if left, and even the doctor says shes too young for cc.I try and be calm at night, no talking, no playing, but she's breast fed and will feed for two hours or scream, not an option atmo. In the day she onlys naps on the move, she will sit in her basket for 40 mins playing by herself but she never sleeps, just eventually screams, so i walk her morning and afternoon in her sling so she naps and to try and get her to see daylight, and that's as far as we've got!

Dd has pain and anxiety problems so have been unable to treat this as a matter of discipline. I just let her come into my bed if she needs to and go straight back to sleep. She is growing out of it now, but it has saved endless amount of nasty painkillers over the years. Doctor suggested quite blithely that I should just keep her on a regular regime of Co-Codamol. I don't think so.