Do they eventually go out of sleep problems?

[BroomForMyChin]

My 10 month old DD still has to be held to sleep, either in my arms or sling. She absolutely refuses to sleep in a pram. She currently starts the night in her cot, ends up in with us from about 1 ish. She has never not once slept through.

At the moment I can cope with this but it's starting to worry me that it might continue like this for next few years. Do they eventually go out of it?

I've tried the NCSS and managed to get her out of my arms and I was stroking her to sleep in her cot but we just couldn't seem to make the transition from that to self settling and as leaning over her cot to stroke her was much more uncomfortable than holding her she ended up back in my arms. Any CC/CIO solutions are just not for me.

So will I eventually have to intervene and do something or will it eventually just work itself out?

Sorry for possible typos, on my phone and it won't let me preview. Also typing one handed whilst holding DD.

Ds is nearly 2 and has never slept through (gah!) but has gradually got better in that he used to wake all evening and night. But now sleeps the first 3 or 4 hours on his own.

His teeth take forever to come through but we are on number 16 so I am hoping we will see more improvement once this is over.

This site has good info on normal sleep.

Please don't worry - it seems relentless now, but i wish I had knonw that DS2 would eventually sleep thru the night, I would have just co-slept with him and saved myself the angst. He was about 1.5 before he did, , but after that was a perfect sleeper, and as a small child would just take himslef up to bed when he was tired, so just because you have a baby that won't sleep does not mean you are condemned forever..... Now mine is 12 an doesn't wnat a cuddle form his mum ( except when he is ill) I wish i had appreciated more the privelige of cuddling him as a baby

My dd was a very poor sleeper. When she was about 18 months old, out of sheer exhaustion, I brought her into bed with us. At least then, if she woke up, she went back to sleep pretty quickly.

She didn't really sleep properly through the night until she'd just turned 4. And that was the exact time that she became dry at night.

I've often wondered if she was waking up every time she had a little wee.

Only problem is, she's now four and a half, and still sleeping with us!!