16mo won't settle in her big bed....HELP?!!

[mamasos]

Since Friday (3 nights now) we moved our 16mo out of her cot as she is a big wriggler and now it's too hot for a sleeping bag she keeps getting her legs stuck in the bars (seriously thought I was going to have to call firemen to get her out at one point?!!)

We have put her on a junior mattress on the floor to keep it safe as possible, she's fine once she asleep but just won't settle! Is taking 2 exhausting hours repeatedly returning her to bed, sometimes it's like a game and sometimes we get proper tears! Complete trauma if we try to leave the room?!!

I just don't know if we need to persevere with her, or if she's too young, or if we need a different type of bed or what?!!!! I just don't understand as she's fine all night it's just going down?!!

Any thoughts?

Hi, I'm afraid I haven't any help here. But I am having similar issues. Up until a week ago my DS loved his cot and had no problems settling. All of a sudden he is refusing to go into his cot and screaming if we put him in there. I am at a loss what to do. Just bought a nightlight to try tonight in case he is scared of the dark. Hes had a few colds recently and is teething, but usually that doesn't stop him going to sleep.

Been doing some research on the net and a lot of people say they start to not like the feeling of having the bars around them. SO I was wondering about taking them off. SO am interested to hear how you get on.

My DS is amazing at staying awake if he wants to. He could go for literally all night I think. The other night he slept only from 1am-3am. And he doesn't even seem that tired the next day. So any ideas about being persistent and keeping returning him to his cot I think is unlikely to work very well with us.

At the moment he is falling asleep once he gets exhausted (last night at 10am) I pick him up and he puts his head on my shoulder and falls asleep. but its hard work. I have to jig around a bit to lull him to sleep. So obviously not a good long term solution.

How do you get your LO to sleep in the end? Does she eventually get the message ad go to bed on her own? If so, then sounds like you are doing quite well. Perhaps the length of time will shorten as she gets used to it?

hi bozemum

got some advice from health visitor who said DD is too emotionally attached to her cot for it to work! a bed with sides might help her feel more secure, but as we want to move we went back to the cot for now. really didnt guess there was so much emotion there?!
how are you getting on? it's hard having a non-sleeper, get so jealous of other mums sometimes!!!

Can you put her back in her cot and buy some airwrap for the bars?

16mo is just a bit little for a bed, imo.