2.5yr old - would toddler duvet and pillow help sleep?

[Autumnsunshines]

We are currently having toddler wake 4/5 times a night. Take ages to get to sleep by cuddling her then transitioned to cot. We would like to stop the cuddling to sleep as I think when she then wakes in the night and can’t self-settle etc.

she’s in a sleeping bag still. In a cot with sides.

I'm thinking maybe we take the cot sides off and then can sit right next to her , moving slightly away each night?

I wouldn’t pin all of your hopes on it - we did it all in stages in the hope that something would help our 2.5 year old sleep - swap sleeping bag to duvet first, bars off next, stopping the cuddling to sleep, choosing own duvet covers in the hope of encouraging him to stay in bed but nothing has worked.

These things might work and they are definitely worth trying - not trying to be pessimistic, if it helps we’re also in the same situation so can definitely offer moral support ❤️

Put her in a bed, more room to move.

Thank you both.

Last night I was so fed up with sitting in the dark with the tddler on my lap getting her to sleep..I really wanted to spend a bit of time with older DC!

So I put her in the cot and kept going back and telling her to lay down, stroking her head etc.. i stayed upstairs sort of 'milling around' so she could hear. I had a Calm App sleep story on and eventually she did lay down and go to sleep!

This was still in sleeping bag and cot as normal. So i think we wll persevere with her self-settling.

@ExhaustedMama68 feel for you! its so tough isn't it. Although bedtime went as above, during the night she was up and crying etc.. as normal. she hasn't got enough vocab to really tell us anything useful!

Have they got a night light?

Yes she’s got a very dull one.