Ava has started sleeping on her own now. Although not without a bit of a cry first.
Last week we began a set routine of:
1) Bath
2) Pyjamas
3) Food
4) Lullaby music
&
5) Bed while still awake
After we start the bath she has to stay upstairs away from any commotion and from that point onward it's bedtime.
We started it about a week ago and the first night she screamed for an hour and a half. We checked on her every 10 or 15 minutes until she finally fell asleep. It was the first time she had ever fallen asleep in her own bed!
We've been going through the same routine every night now since then and some nights it takes 45 minutes, but other nights it only takes 10 minutes of crying before she's asleep. It's so nice to have the evenings back again!
Hopefully soon she'll stop the crying all together and just fall asleep when we put her to bed.
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