Dd has always been terrible to get to sleep. She will fight and fight and fight it and has done ever since she was tiny. Her day time naps can be great and go on for ages or she might last for 12 hours on 35 mins like she did today. But its night time that worried me.
We have to get her to go to sleep in our arms. If we put her down in the cot in any other state she pings herself awake and stands up, cries, doesnt want to be in the bed. If I put her down asleep she will sleep through. It's fine and it works for now. But I'm conscious that I can't do this forever- shes getting bigger and harder to hold like that (like a babe in arms- shes really tall so there are limbs everywhere). I haven't got it in me to do controlled crying or anything like that...so my question is: if you had a baby like that, how did you get them to learn how to sleep by themselves?? I imagine waiting a bit til shes older and I can talk her through whats happening but I just wanted your experiences really....