My 19-month-old daughter becomes distressed if I don’t stay with her at 7pm. My 19-month-old daughter is getting difficult to settle in the evenings. I mistakenly used to hold her until she was asleep. However, for the last 4 months I have been putting her in her cot, after a few minutes of sitting with her in the dark. I used to be able to leave the room fairly shortly after this. Now as soon as I turn out the light she will insist on being put in her cot, however as soon as I take my hand away from her she becomes distressed. This can carry on for 30-45…

How do I get my daughter to sleep happily in her cot again now we are finally settled in our new home? We have had the most terrible week – we have moved house which is stressful enough but my daughter of 20mths has become very unsettled. She has coped extremely well over the past few months with moving country to Africa (we live in Mozambique) and then temporary accommodation. We have made various trips in this time and stayed in other places and she has been fine with her same routine every night always settling well in a new place, crying for up to 10 minutes on the first…

For the past 9 months my 23 month son has needed me to stay with him as he falls asleep. I now want to stop this habit. My 23 month old son has been a CLB since he was 6 weeks old, and would settle himself to sleep at 7 pm from the time he was 12 weeks old. When he was 14mths old we went away for a holiday and he would not settle himself as it was a strange room. To get him to sleep I would lie down quietly on the bed with him until he fell asleep (in about 10 mins). Somehow after the holiday he…

My 18mth old daughter takes up to 2.5hrs to go to sleep at night which is affecting her by day. I really hope you can offer some advice to assist with our daughters getting to sleep at night – whilst she is not crying or distressed I think it is starting to impact her during the day – she is always grizzling and seems tired My daughter is taking up to 2 1/2 hours to go to sleep at night, and this is making her tired during the day. I suspect she is now using her day sleeps to make up for the lost sleep at night because she goes…

My 21mth old son takes along time to settle at night and I need to stay in his room. My 21 month old son has been taking a long time to settle at night. I put him in bed at around 7:45pm, but he doesn’t fall asleep till around 8:30pm. He used to take about 15-20mins to fall asleep now it is taking much longer than that. I have to sit in the room and wait for him to fall asleep before I can leave. During the day he is sleeping for an hour, sometimes a little longer. Should I decrease his daytime nap to 30mins or cut it out…

Since moving to a bed my 21mth old insists we stay in the room until he falls asleep. My 21 month old son has always been happy to go to bed in cot and left to go to sleep on own. He will resettle himself if he wakes in the night and sleeps until 6.30 – 7.30 every day. We have just moved him in to the big bed and new room as I also have a 3 month old still in her swing crib and would her to go in the cot. Relations between children are good. My son loves his new room. If we settle him as normal…