Lydia is a nightmare sleeper. It's not a mummy being negative about her child, or an exageration, it is a FACT. She is nearly 3 1/2 and I can honestly say she has had only a few good nights and for a long time the process of going to bed was painful too.
A month or two ago I "broke the back" of the going to bed process and had managed to get her to the stage where she would settle within 5 mins with me sat outside her bedroom door, but she was still waking several times a night and ending up in with us. A couple of weeks ago we had a breakthrough on the staying in bed alnight (bribery of a friend sleeping over - for those who want to know how ;) ) we've had more sleep through nights in the last 2 weeks than we've had in the last 6 months and were thinking we'd nearly cracked it. WRONG!
Last night and tonight bedtime has been horrendous, taking me well over an hour and lots of stern talking and threats of ringing her friend's mummy to cancel her friend sleeping over which has been hell! Why oh why can't we just get an easy bedtime and a sleep through?
Now I know some people will think it is something we have done, but Isaac goes to bed like a dream and apart from waking for a feed when he has not eaten enough during the day or waking because of pain he sleeps through. We've done exactly the same with him as we did with her sleep wise, with only one exception. Lydia, as a bottle fed baby, was in her own room at 13 weeks as she was sleeping from 10pm to 6am without a feed; Isaac, as a breast fed baby, was in with us until 6 months (we put him to sleep in his cot, but first wake up at midnight he was brought into our room for the night). I wonder if moving her into her own room early was such a good idea - I should add that from 13 weeks to about 11 months were the only time in her life when she slept reasonably most of the time!
Ummmmm food for thought I feel, but in the meantime back to the drawing board I go to find a new strategy to try!
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