not really! My 16 mo has just started sleeping for long stretches, will sometimes wake at 10:30 when I go to bed because we're in the same room and I move the fan before I go to sleep and she will sleep through till 6 or 7. If its early I will bring her into my bed for a cuddle and she goes straight back to sleep and at the 10:30 she has a cuddle and goes back to sleep.

We had to cut out bottles (although I always have a bottle of water for her now) which was sooooooooo hard because she was having 3 bottles of milk a night - the final straw came when she wanted four.... and so basically I did have to listen to her throw the biggest of big tantrums but only for one night. The next night it was a little sook but I was with her the whole time for cuddles (most of the time she was pretty upset with me and didn't want them though). It was hard to listen to her those nights and so I made hubby come in (he was sleeping in another room because of her night waking) so that he had to endure this heartbreak with me and that was it.

When she got sick she woke up crying a lot for a cuddles and one night because she hadn't eaten much in the day from being sick I could hear her tummy rumbling when she was stirring and then she woke up crying and wouldn't stop so I gave her a bottle - I was lucky because when she was better she went back to sleeping through again.

There is hope - we try our best to gentle parent, she sleeps on a mattress on the floor next to my mattress and now we have a bub who sleeps through the night and doesn't wake in her daytime nap either now from start to finish. FINGERS CROSSED FOR YOU!!!