How does your 1.5 -2 year old sleep?

[Sushipaws]

Just wondering if mine is a normal sleeper?

DD because she can get out of bed and out of the room..

why does it matter if she can get out of the room? Surely you would hear her and then put her back to bed? Or you could just put a gate on the doorway.

My ds co slept untill a year in which he wouldn't go to sleep untill 10pm ish when i went up to bed. I then started to put him in bed at 8pm and lay down beside him in the dark and held him gently to stop him climbing about untill he fell asleep. It took half an hour and slowly only took 10 minutes for him to drop off. at 13 months i got him his own bed and moved him into the bigger bedroom from the box room which he hated as well as his cot would never settle in his cot. We got him this bed so he can climb in and out and can't fall out.

he now sleeps from between 7.30-8pm until 7-8pm. and naps between 11.30 until oneish then has lunch.

7-8 am.

Just to add the toddler bed was the best move i've ever made, he only wakes up in the night 3 in 14 days! normally because the cover has fallen off. This morning he woke up and walked into our room at 7.50! He used to call out for me to get him/ well more likely get his milk!

It matters ATM because there is too much she can mess with in the room and it is on the top floor of a 3 storey house- we need yet another stairgate (she has only just got tall enough to open the door).

I did try laying down with her one evening from 8pm until 12.... She wouldn't go to sleep. We used to do this with her brother who turned out to have ADHD and didn't need so much sleep, so I'm really not that bothered about doing it again.

I work FT, DH works nights so I have stuff to do of an evening, and no time to sort the room out either (no spare rooms to put her in). Looks like I'll have to put up with this regime for the time being.

catweazle could she go in with her brother if's easier to toddler proof?

No because he's at uni

The only room we could toddler proof is DS1's and we'd planned that she'd go in there when he moved out. Then he came back

Sleep... sleep... sleep.. Oh I remember, that thing with the eyes and mouth closed?

He NEVER slept. Ever. And I have the bags under my eyes, wrinkles and grey hairs to prove it. Never napped during the day after a few months. I found a feeding diary the other day in a cupboard - he got up on average 8-10 times a night. Every night.

If DS2?? is at uni I'd ask him if it would be ok if he shared with one of his brothers as he isn't there all of the time and it makes more sense so dd2 can have her own room? Perhaps it would make sense for DS1 and DS2 to share if DS1 might move out again?

Can't do that either.. DS2 sleeps in what was the garage on the ground floor. It's internal, so DS1 won't go in there, and too far away from us on the top floor to be safe to put DD in.

I can see now why everyone else in our row moved out as soon as they had a baby.. It's a great layout for teens but hopeless when you've got a toddler

Could DS3 go into DS2's room and share instead? Or DS1 and DS3 could share? I think I'd hate a town house with all those stairs!!

They already resent DD being around. I think there would be outright war!

We went up to bed tonight at 8.10pm after talking to the mums at swimming, whose DDs all go to sleep by 7.30pm. It took until 9.05pm before she went to sleep, and I sneaked back down. At 9.45 there was a plaintive wail and she was sat up in bed looking for me.

I can't win. I either have her round my feet all evening or I spend all evening in a dark bedroom

7.30-7 in her cot
12-2 in her cot

catweazle - surely the DS' are old enough to realise DD can't stay in your room forever and unfortunately there will have to be some moving around when that time comes?

How about putting her up to bed at 9:30? Then hopefully by the time she next wakes up you might already be in bed? Or if not it minimises the amount of running up and down the stairs to settle her?

catweazle - Could you put a toddler bed in your room?

My dd is not a great but not a terrible sleeper (at long last). Bed is 7ish and she wakes once or twice, before awake for the day 5:30-6:30. Nap - lately she won't nap at nursery but at home she has at least an hour around lunchtime, usually after.

Dd goes to bed with me and drops off at about 9pm. She wakes for a cuddle/teething gel/dummy about five million times a night.

Yawn.

18 month old ds 8pm to 8am then a two hour afternoon nap.

dd2 is 20 months and sleeps 7pm, settling in five mins until 5.30-6.30 am

It is much too early and means I am permanently grumpy

She naps from around 1pm to 2.30pm usually.

I live in hope of longer lie ins, dd1 was an excellent sleeper but started sleeping in late around 22 months - now she is nearly 4 and could easily go to 9.30 or so if she didn't have to get up for nursery

juju - my ds started sleeping later when i cut his nap back to just an hour.

Nappy, thanks. Sadly my dd's nap often only is an hour - slightly longer at the moment but none of her naps have ever been predictable Am thinking of cutting out the nap completely, would do anything just to sleep until 7am.

DD2 is 21 mths.

She goes up to bed 7ish, sometimes she falls asleep straight away, other times it can take an hour and a half.

She will then wake up sometime between 10 and 12.

If I go in, feed and resettle she might manage half an hour more. If I feed and get in bed with her she will sleep on and off until 6ish.

Naps during the day vary from none to 2 and a half hours.

juju - just to give you some hope ds only had a 30 min nap yesterday and he slept for an extra hour than normal!!

Herecomesthesciencebit - fun, isn't it? That feeling of your life passing you by while you lie on the bed and they mess about for two hours.

We are thinking of the cot thing too, dd won't go anywhere near her room either.