DD has always been a good sleeper even though we had gone through 4mth and 9mth sleep regression, which I could handle. But since we come to the toddler world, I feel like things is getting harder and harder. First of all, she is super clingy now. I can only eat or cook when she is taking nap. I play peek a boo, I offer a lot of cuddle, but it doesn't seem getting better. For the sleeping, she can't -self-settle anymore. I've read about the WI/WO and GWM, but I am not sure it works for us. She will stand up immediately when you leave her room. If you stay, she will also stand up and look at you or smile at you. I have to treat her like a 2 mth old baby now, rock her, co-sleep with her, or anything works. For the last three days, we put her in our swing chair at the balcony and rock her till she is in deep sleep and then put her back to the cot---we r just too tired to handle this, the swing chair really helps us. But I am so worried that may create a bad habit. For the NW, normally it would happen around 23:00-1:00 or 2:00-3:00 or both. The reason I said toddler is tough than baby is that she would stand up, open her eyes and cry loudly. And it won't be easy to let her go back to sleep. Before the 1st birthday, the occasional NW is very easy to deal with because she didn't stand up, just cried with eyes closed, you just need to pat her a little bit.
Here is our routine:
7:30 wake up
8:00 breakfast
10:00 milk
11:30 nap
12:30-13:30 wake up
13:30 lunch
15:30 snack
17:30 dinner
19:00-19:30 bedtime (It is a big challenge for bedtime now, because it takes long time to let her down, she falls asleep around 21:00 very often!)
PS: we complete the 2-1 nap transition very early, around 10-11 mth. And it was totally fine at that time.
Please help. I did try a lot, including teething relief. But I just feel like hopeless now. Maybe she was too easy when she was a baby. And she is much stronger now, cries quickly, loudly, more cranky, it is not that easy anymore.Sigh!