Hi, im just hoping for a little bit of advice because my 1YO will not go to sleep on a night!
My daughter is 14 months old, she has never been a ‘good’ sleeper but that’s fine ive never expected her to sleep through the night.. She used to have her bed time bottle, go into her cot and sleep for a few hours before waking up for a cuddle/feed and put back down in her cot where she would do the second part of the night.
Since turning 1, she won’t go into her cot at all!
She has a bottle before bed, gets put down asleep and within half an hour (if im lucky) she is crying, then that’s her for the night.. the rest of the night she won’t go in her bed at all and if i try she screams the house down.
It’s not even like she sleeps if she is in bed with me, she falls asleep but she tosses and turns so much that she wakes herself and me up every single time. Last night she was awake every half an hour whinging, it’s just getting to the point where im exhausted… im back at work and the lack of sleep is really hitting me!
On average she has two naps a day.
Her first nap is mid morning and she has maximum of half an hour and her second nap is mid afternoon and this can last anything upto 1 hour.. she doesn’t go in her cot to nap and will only contact nap for me. (funnily enough she will sleep on the sofa if her dad gets her to sleep and sits next to her but he works a lot so it’s rare he is home to do her naps).
I don’t know how to get her to want to go back into her own cot, she’s still in the same room as me, she’s not cold and the room isn’t cold but right now her cot is decoration!