Help! My daughter has never slept through the night apart from a couple of weeks here and there, now she recently turned 2 and we just can't continue much longer!
We kind of know what needs doing but advice or ideas for achieving this would be great.
She still has bottles (yes we know) and I know that's why she wakes in the night. Usually it's once or twice. This past week we've been away and she's woken every couple of hours. It's like having a newborn!
She fights us at bedtime, every single day. She has recently moved to a mattress on the floor as she was climbing out if her cot. We didn't want to do that but couldn't think of an alternative. She goes up to bed around 7, and is always up at 6, though it has been 5 with the clocks changing. She naps for around 1-2 hour in the day, though less at nursery 3 days a week - usually an hour. Makes no difference to her night sleep on those days. I guess the problem is the bottles? Need to cut them out and then she will learn to get herself to sleep if she wakes in the night?
Easier said than done though. She will just scream until she gets a bottle. And I mean scream! Worried she will keep our son up who has just started school and needs his sleep.
Any other ideas how to get to where we need to be?