My dd, 22 months, has been a good sleeper (though an early waker, ) since about 3 months old. At 15 months she was ill and developed a sleep problem which went on for 6 weeks before we resorted to cc which sorted it out in about 3 weeks. Every now and then, like at the moment, she seems to backslide a bit and gets upset when put to sleep, usually at nap times. Dp looks after her when I'm at work 2 days a week and when she's having one of these nap times has resorted to cuddling her to sleep which I think is making the problem escalate and I'm worried we'll end up back where we were at 15 months and I really can't face going through all that again. In other mums experiences, how easily do these occasional sleep refusals turn into a 'problem'? I don't want to be too hard on dd as she's a lovely tempered little girl and generally gives us no bother (except for early mornings!). When I'm looking after her and she's refusing to go to sleep I stick to what we did at the cc time, i.e. go to her, reassure her, don't pick her up and she usually settles within 10-15 minutes, whereas with dp it can take up to 45 minutes. She's definitely tired at nap time, especially when she's up very early, and when she does go off she sleeps for around 2 hours which she clearly needs.