DD is 21mths, has been a good sleeper apart from the fact she thinks 5.30am is get up time. We recently converted her cot into a toddler bed which she was unfazed by and continued sleeping as she normally does (sleep by 8pm and waking at 5.30am). I then decided she could come out of her sleeping bag as she stays under the covers at night the sleeping bag was no longer required. I knew it was a sleep association but thought after a couple of nights her sleep would return to normal. The first night she kept waking up but resettled very quickly. The next couple of nights she returned to her sleeping pattern. But 3-4 nights after removing her sleeping bag she is now waking up a couple of times a night, returning to sleep quickly but still waking up. And once it gets to 5.30am there is no convincing her to go back to sleep - she seems to instinctively know when it is 5.30am (even though the room is completely dark). Anyway while I'm not happy about the 5.30am (which I don't get her up out of bed until at 6am but generally 6.15-6.30, I go into her room and try and get her back to sleep, I like to think I'm setting the expectation that 6.00am is the acceptable time to wake up), my real issue is the waking during the night. Any suggestions on how I can get her back to her previous sleep pattern?
can u put her back into the sleeping bag?
my DD 24 months is in a sleeper suit because she often wont use the doona, otherwise a friend of mine gives her daughter the sleepbag to sleep with (well it was her DD's choice) becuase its her sleep associtation
I didn't really want to put her back in the sleeping bag since I got this far in breaking the sleep association, also worried that if I put her back in the sleeping bag and nothing changes then I will be worse off than I started ie. will still have disturbed sleep and need to break the sleep association again at another point.
I broke her sleep but now I can't fix it
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