Thank you so much for your replies. I will start trying some of those tonight.
Generally she is breast fed to sleep at night but we are trying to cut out BF all together. During the day I have to rock her to sleep in the rocker and she sleeps from 45min-1 1/2 hours. Once in the morning and once in the arvo. About 10-1030am & again around 3-330.
She co-sleeps with me out because I got sick of walking up & down the hall upteen times a night & DF has slept on the couch since Christmas because he doesnt want to roll on her and its the only way he gets some sleep for work
I have also considered getting a toddler bed for her so she doesnt have high bars right the way around her & its lower to the ground so I dont have to worry about her falling out.
Maybe you could get her a todler bed (target has one on special at the moment) and put it up beside your bed... although, dd has a lovely bed and still prefers to snuggle up with me
Its really unlikely your husband would roll on her, but so he doesn't worry, can you put your bed up against the wall and dd on the wall side of you and your husband on the other?
I think the book I was talking about is Pinky Mckay, 'Sleeping like a Baby'. Its good. you can get it from the library.
Do you need to wean now? I remember this age being a really bad stage with dd and sleep, so it might be easier to put it off till you get through this stage?
Anyway good luck with trying all the suggestions.
Hi
We ended up sleeping DS on a mattress on teh floor from around 8 months cause he wouldn't sleep in the cot. It helped immensely.
We have also recently night weaned and having DH get up to him really made a difference - do you have help at night? Sometimes if they're used to feeding to sleep the only thing that works is a complete break for a while, which means someone else needs to settle them.
The no cry sleep solution was helpful for us when DS was younger.
Recently he's also started to cuddle toys in the night a bit, so that is probably also worth a try. Like most things though, it will probably require some persistence on your part to get her to accept different comforts.
Some kids are just very sensitive in that everything upsets their sleep. DS is having a really hard time with teethign at the moment and is getting maybe 8 hours of sleep a night. He's quite, errr, difficult these days. But once he has a break he'll be better (at least for a little while)
good luck with your changes
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