I have just put baby gate on bedroom door.

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And I am not sure if it is appropriate or not. DD2 is 21mths, and will not stay in bed, at night we have to return her to bed for about an hour before she will settle. I nthe day she has never had a sleep in her bed ( she went into bed about 6 months ago, we can only get her to sleep in the pram or car.

Today she is following me round whinging in a really tired way but will not settle on my lap so I decided to try putting the babygate on her bedroom door. Se is now rattling it and screaming which is horrible and I think I will probably take it off again in a minute I just wondered if this is something anybody else has tried and if it worked, or is it completly evil and bad mummy parenting.

We also have a very short window to get her to have a nap as big sis is in nursery for 2.5hrs in the afternoon.

I did that with DD and it took her two days to get used to it. She now asks for us to close it!

I gave up trying to get ds to daytime nap in his bed (once he'd moved out of his cot).
I just drove round the block a few times and he slept in the car.
I didn't have the patience to try and get him to sleep in his bed. Much easier for me to let him sleep in the car - and 100% guaranteed.

I second that Tracy but I don't normally have a car, borrowed my nan's while I recover from a n operation and I can't get my pram out of the house at the moment as have to go up a flight of satirs so am feeling a bit housebound and would like dd to sleep in house (never going to happen).

is this for the afternoon nap? maybe shes just getting too old for naps, im afraid to say.

when my dds got to this stage, i just plonked them in front of finding nemo or wahtever with a blanket and let them rest - its as good as a nap and she wont be so grumpy

she won't rest at all in the day, hasn't actually had a nap in the day since about 1yo but some days she just really needs one. She gets so grumpy, I would just like to get her to have a bit of down time IYSWIM, I don't mind if she wants to play in her room but I think she needs quite time without all the outside stimulus.

She has gone a bit quieter now but certainly has not gone to bed. She will not sit and watch tv, she will not actually sit period. My DD1 will sit and watch a film and fall asleep if she needs it but dd2 seems to get a little overstimulted.

Not really a problem, I just wasn't sure if it is no different to the lock on the outside of the door which makes me cringe in horror, I hate to think that I am caging my Dds.

Difficult if she won't settle in front of tv. I could sometimes get ds to snuggle under my duvet in my bed and close the curtains and put BabyTv on and he'd fall asleep.

I'd stick with the gate and perhaps change your approach to nap times, perhaps try seeing it as quiet time during which she can sleep if she wants to. Thats the approach we took with DS1 anyway, he got undressed and settled into bed with a couple of book, curtains drawn and nightlight on if needed. More often than not he'd sleep but if he didn't that was OK too as it seemed to recharge his batteries and gave us time out too. He's 3 now and doesn't nap in the day anymore but the gates still closed at bedtime (his request )but gets opened after he's asleep so he can always come into us if he needs us in the night.