Hello,
Our 12 month old daughter will only fall asleep when we hold her. In the night if she wakes up, she will usually push up onto all fours then sit up or stand up within seconds of waking up. If she is very sleepy, she occasionally will fall back asleep if I put her dummy back in and lie her down, but usually will need me to pick her up to go back to sleep. If I don’t pick her up she just becomes more and more awake and can then end up being up for an hour or more before I can settle her back down again. On a very good night she will wake up twice, but usually it is around 4 or so times. The only other way she will ever fall asleep is in the car seat.
When looking online about how to improve her sleep, it seems to always say she needs to be able to put herself to sleep in her cot in order to be able to settle herself back down in the night. But how do I get her to do that?! If I put her in her cot awake, she just stands up straight away and either chats away to herself/ plays, or cries for me to pick her up. Has anyone had any success in getting a child of this age to fall asleep in their cot on their own. Or, has anyone had experience of a child who only sleeps when held and how that evolved as they got older. Will she still be doing this when she is 2 or 3? Or do they gradually grow out of it?