When does the sleeping get better? 🙄

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Wanted to see if anyone has tips...

My LO is 15 months old, always slept by himself and was in his own room at 6 months and we've only ever had a hand full of full nights and I think I've run out of ideas of what to change/try next.

He has a good routine and will be in bed for around 7pm, he's put down awake (usually sleepy to be fair) and goes to sleep on his own. The only light in the room is from his monitor so its pretty much pitch black.
He eats well and takes a small bottle before bed so it can't be hunger. It can't be cold because the back of neck is always warm and he wears layers.

Any ideas of what to try next?

I hoped now we would have had this nailed but clearly not :(

Following as my nearly 18 month old is just as you describe...how do you settle yout lo when he wakes? Mine will only settle with milk still and screams bloody murder until she gets it!

Do you use dummies? Our DD was the same. Got much better at around 2 years!

Nearly 4 now and sleeps 8pm-7am most of the time! Good luck!

Luckily 9 times out of 10 he goes straight back to sleep once you pop his dummy back in, we never have to lift him or anything unless he's unwell

My kids were both around 4 years old when they started reliably sleeping through every night.

Yeah that’s exactly like our DD. At least he goes back to sleep!

So it's literally just pot luck whether you get a good sleeper or not? 🫠

Yep sorry, I think so. My first only slept reliably from the age of 2 really. And I have a nephew who slept through from 3 months.. luck of the draw..

A hundred dummies in the bed.?

Once DD hit 2 she could find her dummy herself and it got better. Friends had a dummy attached to a blanket that apparently worked…maybe 100 dummies would work even better 🤭

I’m not sure there are that many good sleepers around! Most parents I know seem to have some kind of issue!

Errrm. Not sure you want my answer.
DS1 stopped disturbing us about 5yrs old. I'm pretty sure he still doesn't sleep through most nights even now - he just doesn't demand attention. I did celebrate on Friday, as he required waking for school at 7am. He's 15 next month.

So all my efforts of getting the wee man to put himself to sleep, not lifting him in the night, not needing fed to sleep, it's all been for nothing 🫠 😂

I have 15 month old twins, has he dropped down to one nap yet? They dropped down to one nap a day last month from 11-1ish and they are sleeping much better now.

Haha this made me smile!! Mine are nearly 4 and 7 and I am still waiting for the day I get to wake them up. I may be waiting a while…

Neither of mine slept through until they dropped all naps. Even then it took a while to get into the habit and if there is anything even slightly wrong with them ( cough, cold etc) they don’t sleep

Then we had the problem of running into our bedroom and jumping into our bed when bad dreams happened . Actually we didn't really mind that . poor wee souls . Getting teenagers up in the morning 🙄 .

For us with dd2 it was at 2 once she'd finished teething. With dd1 it was 1

@Teats4twins he's been down to 1 nap for a good few months now so I don't think it's that unfortunately.

It's looking like I just have to wait it out 🙃

Took my DD until she was about 18 months old for us to start getting more full nights. I had to stop BF through the night at around 15 months because she'd wake up and demand milk so it was only me who could settle her. Then slowly each month we got more and more nights and now she's 2 and a half and it's very rare she calls for us and that's usually because she can't find/reach her dummy.

@linzlinziere can I ask how you stopped BF?
I'm in the same situation, wake ups demanding milk. Is difficult as she's teething all the time so that's part of it and I feel cruel taking away the boob. But it's been months of teething and no teeth are actually breaking through.