Approaching the end of our collective tethers here. DD is more or less refusing to sleep in her cot at all - been doing a bedtime routine for the past week and a half as follows: take upstairs, say goodnight to the world, close the curtains, put on her grobag, read three books, sing lullaby, feed to sleep. She drops off in ten min. Then I start the long process of putting her down, picking up screaming baby, feeding back to sleep, putting down, picking up screaming baby, rocking to sleep, putting down, picking up screaming baby. At some point during this she starts frantically fighting sleep because she knows she'll be put down in her cot. Eventually we crack and she comes downstairs to spend the evening cooing in her chair before being fed to sleep down here and then carried upstairs. She then sleeps in her cot until she first wakes up, when she comes into bed with us.
Before this, she would nap in her chair all evening then go upstairs same time we did, but I want our evenings back! She naps downstairs in her chair. Put her down in her cot briefly today while I got dressed and immediately started crying. Argh. It's not as though we've ever done any CC or anything that would put her off her cot!
New plan is to start feeding to sleep downstairs again, then eventually moving her upstairs when we're in a pattern of going to sleep at the same time each night. And I'm looking at Ambys on eBay again in case that would be better (supported rather than flat on her back). Any other ideas? She was fine when she was a little baby! Meh!