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Really need advice with dd's sleep problem!

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twick · 29/08/2004 12:56

Sorry to be a bore, I've posted a couple of threads about this already but am getting to desperation point now.

Up until about 3 weeks ago dd, 22 months, has been a pretty good sleeper. We have a nice cosy routine day and night and she's gone to sleep on her own in her cot for naps and bedtime without any problems and she's slept well there. Around 3 weeks ago she started making a fuss about her daytime sleep. She's not been ill, no change in routine, and she's definitely tired when we put her down (yawning and tells us she's sleepy and tired). She doesn't scream and cry as such but she stands saying 'hello mummy' over and over. I've tried leaving her but she doesn't stop, if I go in to 'comfort' her she just gets very upset when I leave and then resumes the 'hello mummy' mantra. So we found that if we lay down with her on the fold-out bed in her room she'd go to sleep and we could slip out or have a nap with her. But now the problem's extended to night time too. Last night it took till 9pm to get her off and she was awake this morning 3-5am. I'm totally exhuasted. So is she.

I just don't know what to do. I think the lying with her on the bed in her room has made things worse re. nighttimes. But if I don't do that she skips a nap which leaves her incredibly tired by mid-afternoon.

She doesn't like sleeping in the pram so that's not an option.

Am I going to have to be tough and do cc with her in the cot? I've done it once before when she was 15 months but dread doing it again.

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Spanna2 · 29/08/2004 13:13

She might be waking beacause of nightmares or because she is expecting to see you as you were there when she went to sleep. Maybe it's time for her to go into a bed. Our DD never liked going to bed in her cot and screamed for hours before going to sleep. Awful! She wouldn't go to sleep on her own, so we put DD in a bed (at 23 months) and then got a chair and sat by her bed. I don't lie down by her as I go to sleep! We are gradually moving away from her bed, still sitting in the chair. We are by the door now. It has taken a long time (we started in June) If she refuses to lie down then I sit in the chair and ignore her for a while and then in a firm voice tell her to lie down. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes for her to drop off, but most times it's 5-10 mins!

twick · 29/08/2004 13:46

Thanks Spanna2. What do you do if your dd wakes in the night? Does she need you to sit with her to go back to sleep?

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