Can anyone offer some advice on getting an 18-month-old to sleep at night?
Until now the three techniques we’ve had are 1) feeding to sleep on the boob, 2) walking to sleep in the sling and 3) falling asleep in the car. Number 3 is only good for naps in the daytime, number 2 is getting difficult as our kid is getting big and heavy (and is a PITA at night anyway, and number 1 is starting to become less reliable/effective.
What have you learnt about getting kids (particularly this age, if relevant) to sleep?
Many thanks!
Physical contact and a favourite lullaby did it for us. We started with a baby carrier and advanced to just putting a hand on the baby while they were lying in their bed. The noise of the door latch would wake them up, so we kept the door open for a while until they were fast asleep. It was a lot of trial and error, though.