I have posted about dds sleep issues before but things are still bad.
DD is 20 months old and we have been cosleeping since birth and I still bf her to sleep.
I am fed up and want my evenings back and I want her to sleep in her own room. I recently changed her cot into a bed which she likes better than her cot. A stair gate won't fit across the bedroom door but we have one across the landing which stops her from wondering into the bathroom but she can get into my room.
I have got her to sleep in her cot once but I do bring her into bed with me in the end as we are used to it.
Tonight I went downstairs after bath, bed and story and she just howled at teh top of the stairs by the gate in distress. It sounded more like hurt than anger. I am trying to do cc but for some reason I keep caving in and I get upset and confused.It's very hard to be consistent when you don't know what the fuck to do for the best. If I continue with cc dd will learn to self-settle but I feel so guilty. If I nurse her to sleep it's lovely and cosy but she will need me to get her to sleep which can take hours.
I am starting to really resent my dd even though it is my fault for not teaching her to self- settle. But I really didn't want to do cc when she was a baby.
Why is she crying? She nows I am downstairs and why does it seem to take forever to break a habit. I just want my sodding evenings back. I can't even go to the sodding toilet nowadays.
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poshsinglemum · 21/02/2010 20:22
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