Just wondering whether anyone has any advice / tips going forward for my 11 month old absolutely terrible sleeper.
She has never been amazing, slept through 4 times in her life, and at what I consider our ‘best’ run of sleep, we would be in & out 3-4 times in the night to just replace her dummy, until she’d resist at about 4am, and then come in bed with us until about 6, but the last 2 months have been terrible.
Typically goes to bed between 7-8 each night, never normally an issue getting her to go to sleep. We change nappy, pyjamas on, story, milk, brush teeth then into cot. She goes into her cot, in a sleeping bag, dummy in, white noise on & unless absolutely beside herself exhausted, is asleep in minutes. From then on, she’s up countless times, starting from anywhere between 10 and 12. Will go back to sleep I think purely through tiredness when rocked back to sleep sometimes, but never does a stretch of more than about 40 minutes after that, until we usually give in & she comes in with us about 2. We are all having terrible sleep.
Temperature doesn’t really seem to make a difference. Vest & babygro, babygro alone, pyjamas alone. Room is generally 19-20 degrees, probably dips a bit cooler in the night, but she never feels too hot or too cold when we go to her.
White noise again doesn’t seem to make much difference, if it goes off in the night when the batteries have run out, its no better or worse.
Naps don’t seem to affect anything other than her actually falling to sleep. If she’s had 1 short nap all day, she’ll fuss getting to sleep, but then is the same as above once actually asleep as she is if she’s had 2 decent naps, she just falls asleep easier in that respect.
Getting into the habit of putting her in bed with us was probably not our best idea, but I’ve recently returned to work, and need the sleep. Aware I will probably have to sacrifice some sleep to sort this out. She has also recently started nursery, but sleep had started to go downhill prior to this, and again, teething doesn’t seem to have much of an effect either, she’s the same even when not teething.
Is she just not a sleeper?