My 11 month old is a good sleeper through the night. When she is finally settled to sleep she will mostly stay in bed until the next morning. However, getting her to actually go to sleep is a nightmare. Currently she either needs rocking to sleep or a car journey to get her to sleep and then transfer to the cot.
She's not napping properly throughout the day and only naps in her pushchair (again she needs rocking in the pushchair) or she will fall asleep in the car seat on a car journey.
I'm not sure if by now she should be napping in her cot? I'm reluctant to do it as I don't want her thinking that because she takes short naps in the day that she can take short sleeps at night.
How can I get her to a stage where she gets herself off to sleep in her cot? At the moment if I put her in her cot and leave she becomes hysterical, stands up and just cries and cries and cries. If I lay her down and leave again the whole process repeats.
It's a nightmare because I can't get my 3yo to bed until she's in bed asleep.
Today for example. She woke at 7 (its normally half 5) fell asleep in the car at half 8, woke an hour later and then didn't sleep at all until around 6 when I put her to bed. She then woke up 10 minutes later, I attempted to rock her to sleep but she was having none of it and ended up back downstairs playing. This whole time my 3yo was waiting to go to bed. I eventually got the baby to bed at 945 and she has stayed asleep.
I just feel like it's all a bit of a mess I just don't know how to sort it!
Any words of wisdom or advice?....