Emily has never been a good sleeper, and woke regulary
throught the night for a bottle to go back to sleep
with. So I decided to take the bottle away, except for
frst thing in the morning. This worked well, she has a
beaker of milk before bed, then settles really well on
her own with out the aid of her bottle, which is
great. The first four nights having gotten over the
fact that bot bot wasn't coming at night, she slept
through! But these last five or so nights she is
waking once or twice crying her eyes out. Last night
each cry/awake time was lasting about an hour. Im not
going into her becasue I don't want to to be rewarded
as such by my presence, so my self or my husband call
to her and say lay down and go to sleep, we say it
nicely not angrily, so as she doesn't feel completely
abandoned, but im worried because each night she is
getting worse, lasting longer awake and crying louder.
This always happens, we do well with the sleeping and
its like she finds another way to get our attention at
night. I just don't know what to do next? Im coping to
be honest as I don't work, but my husbands finding it
more and more frustrating as he needs his sleep as he
is a roofer, and he needs his wits about him in this
wind whilst high up on a roof, that and he's one of
these sorts that finds sleep very precious! Shes nearly
two now and somethings gotta give! Should I just
ignore her completely so she gets no reward when
crying out, or is that harsh? what to do! please help.
x