My dd is 17 months and keeps waking between 2am and 4am and stays awake for 1.5 hrs, she will cry, we go in and give her her dummies (even though they are in reach for her) She is always sitting up and we lie her back down and leave the room, we dont turn on any lights and we dont talk to her.
She will settle for about 15-20 mins and then do the same thing over and over, sometimes we go in and out about 10 times!! Until she finally falls asleep. She hardly ever wakes before 8am, i will wake her if she is still asleep at 8.00am, do you think this is the problem??
So typical day : Wake 8am
Sleep 12.30 - 2.30pm
Sleep 8pm
We dont mind that she goes to bed at 8pm as this has always seemed to be the way it has been for us, later to bed later getting up.
I dont think it is hunger and i dont think its for the dummy because she has access to the dummy. I do think we respond too quick to her cries,. What can we do differently to not respond to her so quick, i dont like the cio method. I have tried leaving her to cry her "self soothing" cry but it always leads on to a full on cry. By then she is snotty and snuffly and cant get back to sleep because of it. (she is very snuffly at nights and always seems to have a cold)
Also is the wake them up before they habitually wake up method effective at this age....
I have left it this long because i thought she would grow out of it, but no!!
I put her to sleep in her cot with her dummy and leave her, she goes off to sleep fine, its just the night waking around 2-4am
Any clues??
Thank you
