sleepp to cc or not?

[rusmum]

dd2 is 18 months and a nightmare- we cuddle rock her to sleep anything from 8-10. Then precariously put her in bed. This lasts 5 minutes to 2 hours and then she screams and comes in with us. We sleep very badly then as she is VERY restless all night. Problem is she sleeps in room with dd1 (5) so dont want to leave her screaming in night, and she head bangs a lot. But we are shattered. Should i bite the bullet and CC? (at half term when dd1 can stay up- lol)

Oh no! That sounds terrible and with another child to look after and I suspect you are back at work too, that must be exhausting!

If you have a nice routine for bedtime already, and a good routine in the day so she's not overtired at bedtime. Short of lying down with her every night or something similar. It maybe better in the long term, to have the short term pain and guilt of sleep training but then a happier child at settling herself. Depends on what you feel comfortable doing though.

As long as you are sure that there is nothing wrong medically and she's well fed, clean nappy, not in pain etc I think personally you need to consider some form of sleep training. As you clearly cannot carry on like this.

I have a fav book that is my bible on sleep advice that I use but you probably have your own. So I won't give you my tricks, that have taught my two to sleep well.

Good luck, it'll be hard but worth it in the long run x

Good advice there from tea. I also think 18 months is old enough to teach a child how to go to sleep on her own; you must be absolutely knackered with all that! Not to mention the toll it must be taking on your sanity.

Like tea says, as long as you've ruled out every other possible cause for the upset - she's not ill, hungry, thirsty etc.

Good luck.

I read the baby whisperer when I had my DS and it had some invaluable advice for sleep, he goes off really well. There is a toddler version, why don't you have a look; its on amazon its called secrets of the baby whisperer for toddlers by tracy hogg.
Hope it helps