Hi, hope someone can shed some light on this. My 15mo was a good sleeper (8pm- 8am, 2 x 1.5 hr naps) until a few months ago when teething started in earnest and since then we have had real problems around sleeping. This is a typical day:
6:30-9am- Wakes up, full-on crying immediately, stops as soon as we go into her room and take her out of cot.
Mid-morning- longish nap if out in buggy or car, if at home she needs a bottle to sleep and will resist going into her cot even when she is so tired she is lying down on the kitchen floor with her eyes closed!
Mid-late afternoon- again, has a shorter nap if out and about, same problem if at home.
6:30pm- we start the dinner, bath, milk and story routine. She has her bottle and falls asleep on my husbands lap in the front room (not good I know but he works late and this is their only time together in the week) Then when she is asleep, one of us puts her into her cot and she will invariably be screaming soon after, standing up in her cot and trying to get out. We never have and never will leave her to cry herself to sleep, but when we pick her up she is just pointing to the door and trying to wriggle out of our arms so she can make a run for it and go downstairs again. We do about up to an hour of pick up put down until she finally drops off in the cot, only to wake at least once every night screaming. In the middle of the night though she only needs a cuddle and a sip of water and she is asleep again in 30 seconds.
Any advice on making bedtime and naps harmonious again? Thanks