Sleep time

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Thank you everyone!

Monday afternoon I started letting her cry. She cried for 2 hrs (me going in every ten minutes to put her down) and she didn't sleep at all. Since then we are slowly getting a little bit better each nap time (2 a day). She is sitting up and crying now, while before she would stand and cry...so the chances of her falling asleep are getting a little bit better. It's not the actual nap that she is refusing...when I go in and lay her down, she stops crying. It's me not touching her that upsets her. She wants me to sit there and rock her/rub her back, or something. The problem with that is that I will have two 3 year olds soon, and I can't leave them unattended while I sit with the 11 month old for her morning nap.

Mom is TOTALLY on board with her learning to fall asleep on her own. Mom has been in school since her daughter was a young baby, leaving her with Grandma, and that is who rocked her to sleep, or let her decide that she didn't want to nap.

But, I do see things getting better soon...hopefully before the other two children start!!