So, my little miss Bonnie is now a grown up 18 months old now and is terrific fun, charming and funny etc. She has always napped well and always gone to sleep at nighttime with no fuss, so yay for me right? Well no, because since she was a wee bub, we've had night-waking issues.

We went to Tresillian and she was "fixed" from about 6 months to 13 months, but recently she's gotten steadily worse at the sleep thing. She wakes up every 3 hours throughout the night, sometimes she goes to sleep straight away, sometimes she is awake for a couple of hours. Over the past few months, she's become used to me putting her in bed with us, so much so that there is no chance that she will settle in her cot in the middle of the night - she screams until she gets into the big bed with us.

I'm coping. Unlike when she was a baby (when I could do sleep training), for some reason the idea of any form of sleep training just fills me with dread. I mean, I know I could probably start some "controlled crying" but I'm pretty sure that I would cave after 20 mins, I am such a soft touch!

I think I can hold on for another few months, surely this bad patch of sleeping will improve? So, can I please hear some stories from you mums of previous bad toddler sleepers who didn't control cry? When did it sort itself out, and can it sort itself out without any "training" on my side required?