Peaceful Nights » 12 - 18 Months

As soon as your toddler outgrows his cot, and makes the transition into a ‘big bed’, there may be some high jinks at bedtime. Most parents do want to foster night-time independence in their toddlers, and really do feel quite desperate at the thought of another night spent negotiating with a roaming toddler. Some children simply find that this new found freedom is a wonderful excuse for prolonged bedtimes, plus frequent visits to mom and dad’s bedroom throughout the night! If you have no issues with this, and love having your toddler sleep with you, read no further! Seriously though, before...

Q:Hi  I have read and reread both Baby sense and Toddler sense and still go back from time to time to refresh my memory. My son, Ahamd is now 17months and thanks to you and your books, most of that time has been happy. We have all benefitted from following the simple guidelines that you have prescribed in your books. I look forward to the emails that I receive now and then from Baby sense. You have helped me at times when I just needed that little encouragement so I don’t feel like a complete failure... We moved to London about 4months ago and initially it was major strain on Ahmad to...

Q: Hi there. I heard that it is possible to get some advice from one of your experts re "peaceful nights". I have a little boy who has just turned 1 and suddenly nights are awful - he was in ICU for the 1st week of life and was not sleeping thereafter unless I rocked him - now he is set in this routine and I really want him to get himself to sleep. Everyone tells you different ways but I want to try it and stick to it. He is also teething and that contributes to his misery at night - he is otherwise an incredibly easy baby - sleeping well in the day and generally very happy. I would appreciate your...

Many of the common baby bedtime mistakes parents make, are carried through to toddlerhood. Whether your toddler’s sleep issues have always been there, or whether they are a new phenomenon, with a bit of work and perseverance, they will soon be a distant bad memory! Ann Richardson, author of Toddler Sense, discusses the common bedtime mistakes we make when our children are toddlers. The toddler years are fraught with sleep disruptions. If you are battling to get your toddler to settle at bedtime you are probably making one of the following bedtime mistakes: 1. Extended awake times and misinterpreting...

Q: My little boy is 2yrs old now & ever since he was a baby he would constantly wake up during the night, he would wake up just about every half an hour. He was a bit sickly from about 3 months old, he had pneumonia twice & was put on pumps for asthma. We tried to be very hard by putting him in his own room in his cot & would let him cry if he woke as we knew he tummy was full & he had a dry nappy, but then he got a bit of a cold after about a week & he landed up sleeping in the bed with us! He is still sleeping in the bed with us & I know that is our fault, but he wakes up...