Still rocking 19 month old to sleep

Anyone else or are we the only ones still doing this? She is in with a childminder in the day so we only have to do this at night and weekends but if there is no rocking we’ve got no chance of her sleeping. Tried to lay down with her tonight in her cot, didn’t even work and we’ve now being pregnant with no2 it’s not ideal.

If she was in the car, she would fall asleep straight away which is also what happens when she’s with the childminder.

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Yes we are. She’s starting nursery two days a week next week so I’m worried about them getting her to sleep 🤦‍♀️

@Hayley Thorpe don't worry about nursery. Our little one is fed or cuddled to sleep at home and when he started nursery he was rocked to sleep at home. After a few days there of them.cuddling to sleep he now lays down and they pat him to sleep on a mat. They're magicians and ours have never left them to cry or anything x

So I currently have an almost 8 week old baby and eldest same age your little girl. We did the same until I was about half way through my pregnancy and I thought.. the bigger I get, the harder this will be so that’s when I started to put her in her cot and just lie next to it. It took a little while for her to understand the laying down part and staying down but we’ve now not rocked for months. We still comfort her by stroking her arm or patting her back when we need to but she goes down so much quicker now than she ever did before xx

I was pregnant with my second and I have rocked my daughter to sleep until my labour has started. It’s completely safe, just need to find a comfortable position. I don’t need to rock her to sleep now and she is 3 years old and can sleep through the night on her own, with some cuddles and a bit of a swaying every now and then when putting her down for bed. I would say you’d miss it when you no longer have to do so. But if it’s really difficult and too uncomfortable for you to settle her down then just try switching to patting and lots of kissing and cuddling.

Yep, still rocking here! Sometimes I can be still but always have to be holding him. He’ll go to sleep without it at nursery but I just accept it for what it is at home! I’m sure at some point it’ll stop and then I’ll miss it!

Still rocking here. My poor back! 😂

We are still rocking. Still breastfeeding too and I have no idea how to train him to sleep independently!

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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In the uk there is an outbreak of meningitis, in a specific area mainly. My BD has family from that area and decided to go and meet up with them, I said if he does then he cannot have contact with the kids for 7-10 days after incase he picks anything up. Am I being over dramatic? I reallyyy don’t want my young kids getting anything serious

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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