15 months poor sleeper

[Inspired by Reggio]

Agreed ... children need to be taught to sleep well ... they cry out / wake because it is 'natural' to do this but WE as the adults bring them fully awake / alert by going in to feed them or what not when in reality they were not 'hungry' it was just the natural sleep cycle to roll over come out of rem open eyes and than you are suppose to fall right back to sleep without even realizing you WERE awake .... IMO so many parents JUMP now to run look when babe cries out that THEY are the ones creating the sleep problems by disrupting the natural process ... give them a few minutes to fall back asleep on their own as long as they are making noise you know they are 'breathing' you do not need to go IN the room

[gramma]

my 13 month old dcg is still struggling with sleeping at naptime. we have a good day (very rare) and some okay days and then really brutal days. I'm not seeing a consistent improvement. her morning nap is fairly consistent. i would say she goes down and stays down for the hour 3 out of 5 days a week which isnt great but better than it was. afternoon naps are another story. she used to sleep for 45min to an hour then wake and cry for the last hour, now she's waking after 30 minutes and crying for 90 mnutes. not having a relaxing naptime is killing me. mom is great, totally on board and supports cio but I have to aske her tonight if she is nursing when she wakes at night. is suspect she is. last night apparently she slept straight through for 11 hours which i believe is the first time she's done that ever. i was hoping nap would be good today but alas it is another scream fest. She's really loud too which disrupts the other kids. I have her as far away as possible, sound machines in both rooms. ugggh any other suggestions

Agreed ... children need to be taught to sleep well ... they cry out / wake because it is 'natural' to do this but WE as the adults bring them fully awake / alert by going in to feed them or what not when in reality they were not 'hungry' it was just the natural sleep cycle to roll over come out of rem open eyes and than you are suppose to fall right back to sleep without even realizing you WERE awake .... IMO so many parents JUMP now to run look when babe cries out that THEY are the ones creating the sleep problems by disrupting the natural process ... give them a few minutes to fall back asleep on their own as long as they are making noise you know they are 'breathing' you do not need to go IN the room