at 12 months, we made a cot into a sidecar of our bed by removing one side of the cot. i would feed dd to sleep and then put her in the cot. when she woke, she would generally crawl into the main bed, have a feed and then sleep in the main bed for the rest of the night. I began to move her back to the cot after a feed. If she got upset, she would come back into the main bed.

this got her used to having her own sleeping space. As she began to stop feeding to sleep, it also allowed us to lie down on the main bed, and hold her hand or rub her back when she was going to sleep in the cot. Over time, she began to increase the time that she would sleep before her first wake.

At 15 months, she slept through for the first night ever. At 18 months

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