My DD is 14 months old and still wakes up several times during the night. We just started the sleep training process, and I believe the problem she has is that as soon as she wakes up, she rolls over and sits up and doesn't know how to lay back down! Does anyone have any tips for how to get her to lay down? We let her CIO and she fell asleep sitting up and just keeps bobbing her head and I feel horrible!
Any help is much much appreciated!
coconut / 8498 posts
They're so pitiful when they do that 
We found that "helping" her learn how to lay back down didn't help at all. She had to figure it our herself. It didn't take long.
pear / 1946 posts
Work on it with her during the day. You can slowly lower her straight back onto her back, or kinda roll her onto her side. As a PT, I worked with a kiddo that would do the same thing. Now she can lay back down on her own.
pineapple / 12053 posts
oh man! what a skill to have to teach! i have no advice, but we're starting the sleep training process here too soon (at 13 months)
grapefruit / 4291 posts
My LO has the same problem but with standing up! Fortunately she started understanding me when I asked her to lie down and although we don't CIO, she can and will lie herself back down at bedtime (I lie on the twin bed while she lies in her cot).
apple seed / 2 posts
Thanks everyone! The first night, she fell asleep sitting up after 20 min, and we caved 2.5 hours later and went in to lay her down. She fell back asleep right away. She slept for 7 hours straight though! Since then, she's been falling asleep on her own (without getting up) fairly quickly, and sleeping for about 5 hours, and will wake up and sit up once a night. We let her cry until she falls asleep sitting, and then go lay her down. We just cant bear to see her head bobbing around for hours
But since she's sleeping for longer stretches (she used to wake up every 30 min to 2 hours!) , we'll count this as a victory.
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