Should a 9 m.o be sleeping? Until recently, Ava-Jayde slept about 2 or 3 times a day and most would go from anywhere from 1 hours to as long as 2.5 hours. Well as of about last week that's changed. She's going down for 1 nap a day and 1.5 hours at the most. Not only that but night time she is SCREAMING whenever i put her in her cot. She use to take a while to settle, never screaming though just a bit of talking little bit of crying. But now she will scream for ages. I've tried leaving her cry it out and going in and putting the dummy in every now and then but I tried for 2 hours the other night. And just now it took me standing in there for half an hour rocking her to get her to sleep. Im so exhausted and running out of ideas.. PLEASE tell me this is a phase