As an update to my previous post about struggling with my 15-month-old's sleep. She used to sleep well, since turning 1 she doesnt anymore. She is fighting sleep and naps like crazy, staying up up to 2 hours after we put her to bed, refusing to sleep.

We have decided to go back to her strict bedtime and bedtime routine that we used when she was tiny. She is going to get a bath every night again. Bathtime with start between 6:30-6:45 and she will be in bed by 7:00-7:15. We're going to do a bath, PJs, story and then bed with her white noise machine. I am also not letting her sleep in anymore. I set an alarm for 8am today woke her butt up.

Last night was night 1. It was bad, but better than the night before. We started bathtime at 6:45 and she was in bed by 7:15. She was quiet for about 20-25 minutes and then cried pretty hard for 20-25 minutes before falling asleep at 8. (The night before, she fought and cried for an hour and a half).

We have been doing checks, since my husband insisted on it. I told him they never worked the first time around but he didnt listen. I think he succeeded in totally un-sleep training her in the process. We are going back to the extinction method.

I woke her up at 8:30 this morning and she will be in bed by 7, allowing her 30 minutes to settle and fall asleep to get in the 13 hours she seems to need. Nap today (and yesterday) has been disastrous. Yesterday, she chose to cry for over an hour before I gave up and brought her back downstairs. Today is not faring better. She fell asleep for about 3 minutes in the car and then is now having a fit and refusing to take a nap at home. It's been nearly an hour but I think she might be giving up. I've decided that she WILL be in her crib from 1-3 (im going to try for 12:30-2:30 after we get nighttimes ironed out) every afternoon. If she doesn't sleep, she doesn't sleep and thats on her. She will sit there and deal though.

I am at the end of my patience, for real. This kid is driving me nuts. I have a blistering headache from her being a crab all morning because I woke her up and her sitting here yelling for the past house while I have tried to get her to nap.

Please don't tell me that CIO is cruel, etc, because you may get your head bitten off today. It's what works for us. I don't need judgment.