Well she is still asleep (nearly been 2 hours!) so I think she was genuinely ready for a sleep! Makes me feel not so bad that I persisted now. I wonder why shes not feeding to sleep anymore though. Maybe she is just not hungry to feed. Think I just answered my own question
i'm def not an expert but i do think that a lot of people seem to find that their babies will stop feeding to sleep at some point - i think they sort of grow out of it?
while the one sleep may have been going okay, maybe she's still really needs a second nap & she's a bit overtired & that's why she's hard to settle? i find that DS is pretty tough to get to sleep if i've let him go past early tiredness (either that or he sleeps for 30 mins & that's it) but if i hit the 'right' time then he sleeps pretty well.
i've also found that DS has gone through sooo many different stages - as in where he sleeps best for naps, how he gets to sleep etc. so maybe she's just going through one of these changes?
LOL at answering your own question! I was just going to post that letting them determine when to settle down for sleep is ok sometimes but from my experience a child of that age probably isn't the best judge really. I wouldn't force the issue but you can coerce. I find that putting a resistant child into a Yin environment can be all it needs for them to change their minds. Yin = quiet, dark/dim, slow, soft. So lower your voice, lower the lights, move more slowly and play some soft music. this is what we used to do at an Early Learning Centre i used to work at.... it was amazing how many apparently non-napping kids fell asleep! And when parents were afraid that this would mean that their children wouldn't sleep as well at night we would remind them that "the more a child sleeps, the more they sleep". It's a total myth that a child won't sleep at night if they nap during the day.... especially with under 1's. Over tiredness is often the biggest factor to not settling at night at this age group.
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