DD is 1, still having sleep issues, can anyone help?

[queenbee]

our DD turned 1 recently. she was sleeping pretty well, most of the time, all night in her toddler bed and settling easily. she normally goes to bed around 7pm. the last couple of weeks though, she has been waking between 11pm-1am. i go into her and settle her. she used to settle straight away and then sleep through until around 6am.

we have a single bed in her room as well. the last two weeks she won't re-settle at all. so i will take her into the single bed in her room and she'll go straight to sleep, until 6am.

does it ever get better? worried about having #2 as DD doesn't sleep well at all and has been a bit difficult in this department since birth. i don't like CC.

thanks for your help.

[CrystalBoo]

I've never been into CC either, and my DD was quite a bad sleeper (waking wise) sometimes up to 8 or 9 times a night at about 9m. In the end, I did whatever she needed to get her back to sleep (co-sleep, rock etc) It might not be a comfort to know that she still wakes once a night, but to me that is nothing! LOL I am in the habit of giving her a half bottle when she wakes, in her bed, and she goes back to sleep on her own that way and sleeps until 6 or 7.
I know I will eventually have to wean her off that night bottle, but atm it works for us and I see such a huge change in her maturity over the past few months, that I am quite confident she will handle it when the time comes.
I guess the point to all this rambling is, I'm glad I took the slow and gentle approach to sleeping as I see now how comfortable she is with the whole sleep thing, and how much progress she has made.
IMHO your DD sleeps well, and I would say just keep doing what she needs atm to get her through this tougher time. It's probably just a phase, DD goes through them all the time, but always goes back to sleeping well.
Maybe someone else can give you more hope of all-nighters but I HTH a little.

[*Efjay*]

its hard, but it will get better.
My DD still wakes at night & comes into my bed. She is 2 & a bit./ I have given up fighting it & just get the best night sleep I can with her in my bed or me in hers.
I often wonder if its some cruel joke to give me a baby who pretty much sleeps though but make it so my 2 yr old doesn't

[queenbee]

ah thanks girls. just worried about #2 more than anything. how on earth will we all fit in the bed! then again, who knows, next one may be a perfect sleeper i really appreciate you all responding anyway. i have always been one to just do whatever works to get a good night sleep. so ATM, i am heading into her room around 1am and sleeping in there, it is a king single bed (we have two beds in there, her toddler bed and the other one), a bit more roomy but she is a kicker and squirmer so sometimes we both get an ordinary sleep as we both wake up all the time ah well....see how she goes. thanks again