Hi, I need help with my 1 year old baby.
Since 2 weeks ago, she has been having sleeping problems. I assume it's separation anxiety because she sleeps well until 3 or 4 in the morning and then she starts crying. I go to her room to keep her calm, lye her down and she starts to sleep, then I walk away, close the door and she starts crying. I tried sitting close to her, holding her hand until she falls asleep, but she sleeps about 10 minutes and starts crying again The only thing that works is bringing her bed to my room, close to mine, that way, when she starts crying I hold her hand and she falls asleep again. This way it has worked. But I don't want to bring her bed to my room every night...
Now I'm on holidays and I would like to solve this problem.
From what I've read in other posts, I believe I have to change her daily routine in order to help solding this problem.
This is her routine:
08:00 Wake up
08:30 eat
activity
11:30 eat
11:45 sleep 1 hour to 1,30 minutes
activity all afternoon
14:30/1500 eat
rarely sleeps
18:00 eat
18:15 sleeps 1 hour to 1,30 minutes
activity
21:30 bath + eat
22:00 go to bed
03:00/04:00 wakes up comes to my room and sleeps although cries sometimes during the sleep
Well, from what I've read, she shouldn't sleep so late in the afternon, but the problem is that she doesn't want to go to bed earlier Shall I force her to nap earlier on both naps? How?
She eats well and is always very happy. She is trying to walk by herself now and wants to explore everything... so she is very excited during the day.
Is there anything I can do to improve her sleep?