dd is 18mo, I have always aimed for her to start the night off in her cot and didnt mind if she came in with me for tha last bit. everything went wrong last oct when I had to take on an evening cleaning job. Before this She was great at going to sleep in her cot with only a little pat from me and wouldn't wake until about 2/3am when I would bring her in with me. this was going really well and when I started the job I would put her to bed as usual, my dm would come over and I would go. After a few weeks dd started waking up and upon realising I wasn't there, she wouldn't go back to sleep for dm and kept waking earlier until it was just easier do me to drop dd to dms for tea and bathtime and I would pick her up when I finished. she will NOT go to sleep in dms new house. So would always be awake. Being exhausted it was easier for us to just go to sleep together in my bed...now I stopped the cleaning just before Xmas and have been trying to get her routine back without much success. In all fairness she has been a little poorly (not that it's slowed her down at all!) and I've caught it so Ivwww.puckergallery.com/HT167_enl.htmle got a bit of a short fuse at the moment. I'm not sure how much more I can take of dd wanting to be cuddled to sleep then waking up after about an hour/hour and half and wanting to be cuddled again, and this goes on until I go to bed and bring her in with me. I'm a single mum too so no one else to take over.