13 month old hates her cot

[Lauren8642]

For about the past week or so my little girl has hated her cot will cry as soon as we put her in and pull her self up or just sit there, she used to be really good at self soothing but now nothing helps, even when I sit with her she doesn’t stop crying or go to sleep. Think it’s ever since she got confident in going from laying to sitting and pulling her self up that’s she’s been a problem ( cot is on lowest setting ) Once she’s asleep she’ll go through the night but it’s taking 30mins - 1 hour to get her to sleep! This is nap times and bed times
help!!

She might need her daytime naps shortened.

Consider dropping the side on the cot too. She will probably like that. They do start to become a bit of a pain at that age getting in and out and wandering about. They like their newfound mobility skills and like to show them off.

Generally 13-18 months is hard work. The more you support their growing independence instead of fighting against it, the more fun parenting will be.

This isnt our first rodeo in that we aren't first time parents....have an older child who admittedly didn't sleep through consistently or consistently in her own bed until almost age 5 but she was fine as long as not on her own

But we have 15 month old twins now - boy and girl. Girl is fine just wants to fall asleep next to me and then will go in her cot. Yes can wake in the middle of the night and then comes in with us for a cuddle but does sleep

But our boy.......he just doesn't want to go to sleep...ever. We have fallen in a trap of me doing his sisters bed time and DH taking him out in the car and driving until he's asleep and then putting him to bed. Because he just would scream for hours otherwise. BUT we can't carry on like that** as I'm worried how will ever he go to bed on his own (and it's costing a fortune in fuel!) - it was working fine for about 2 months but the last few nights he'll sleep for an hour or two and then be wide awake and just won't go back to sleep.

We couldn't do cry it out etc before because he shares with his twin and the crying would wake her up and then we'd have 2 babies to settle and we both work full time and were literally going to work on a couple of hours sleep if we were lucky

But now I'm thinking of trying it again but moving his sister downstairs to the sofa when she is asleep and then going for it?

Does it actually work though? I've said to DH we need to commit to it and follow through for what could be several nights of crying

I guess I'm just after tips and solidarity - sounds awful but we have to almost break his will when it comes to bed times. I've had 2 hours sleep in 48 hours and i have a very high pressured and challenging job and just need some more consistent sleep and not feel anxious when it comes to bed times

Sorry for the rambling!

Sorry meant to create my own post! Blame lack of sleep!!