Non-sleeping charge (baby) - no idea what to do!

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Hiya, I have a newish charge who is 11 months old who I have had for about 2 months now. She has 2 naps at home, an hour and a half morning and aternoon. However, with me (3 days a week) she just fights it completely and Im lucky if I can get her to sleep an hour in total. Often it is less than that and she is just shattered all day. The room is dark, its quiet, cot seems fine, she has her dummy as at home. I can't work out why not.

But also, she does not EVER fall asleep in the car or in the buggy(confirmed by mum) so that isn't an option either. Im finding a tired non-sleeping baby hard going! I never know when she actually will sleep so we can end up at home all day just in case.

Any advice would be really helpful. Is it just still early days for her perhaps?

But with 3 year olds..?!

No idea! 3 seems not too young to put in front of the telly briefly. What does the mum do? You have to leave them alone to put the baby down for a nap anyway - what do you do then?

Why can't you rock at the same time as being in same room as other children. I often do that with baby I care for, she likes to be rocked in my arms for a couple of minutes, then laid down - then she will sleep,

Good idea nick. I honestly can't imagine what it would be like to have more than one child so my advice is probably useless. I can only say what I'd feel as the parent of the baby or the other children.

Long number starting with 5 poster - you do sound a bit unkind on this thread. Not the attitude I'd want from my cm