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tiredmums · 18/09/2018 10:38

So my 14 month has NEVER been a good sleeper from day 1, she dropped her over night feeds at 6 weeks, but then we found she was very reliant on her dummy, from then on it was a case of getting up 5/6 times in the night to put it back in for her and that was on a good night!! Over the last 5 months or so she's started resisting her naps, screaming as soon as I take her into her room because she knows where she's going and crying for a good 45 minutes before falling asleep, it got worse when she was able to stand up in her cot and now as soon as I put her down she's back up banging on the sides, this is only during the day at bedtime she goes down no problem at all and it's only since she turned 1 that she's stopped waking as much in the night I would say 5 out of 7 nights a week we get a full night sleep 7:30-6:30 without hearing a peep from her and the other two it's usually just 1 dummy run around 2am, anyway during the day when it's nap time she's started launching her dummy's across the room and then screaming until I pick them up and then when I give her them back and lay her down and leave the room she just does the same thing again, this normally goes on for at least an hour before she gives up. Has anyone experienced this and have any tips on what to do? I have tried lots of dummy's at one point she had thrown 9 out of her cot, we also tried leaving her to scream but it literally goes on for hours! And we tried controlled crying, I started it when she first started resisting her naps like 5 months ago and it's still no better now! I'm losing the will to live now, help

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FlibbertyGiblets · 18/09/2018 16:39

Naps downstairs on the sofa with a bedguard? Or in the buggy laid flat?

tiredmums · 19/09/2018 17:31

She won't nap anywhere other than in her cot😕

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MumUnderTheMoon · 19/09/2018 20:09

Stop giving it back to her she has to learn that she can't control you. She will learn very quickly that if she throws it away she won't get it back. I would give her her own back up dummies. Maybe 2 or three in the cot I also attached little teddy key rings to my daughters dummies. If nap time is 1 or 2 hours then still go in at the end as if she has slept I would think she'd learn pretty quickly that you won't give in.

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FlibbertyGiblets · 19/09/2018 20:25

Oh sorry my mistake. I took it that daytime naps in the cot were a disaster. Apologies.

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