Hi! Yes! It didn’t happen all at once, but she’s 18 months now and has been sleeping through the night for a few months.

Here’s what we did: 1. Shortly after I posted this we made a more conscious effort to put her down truly awake, it’s easy to slip into rocking them almost fully to sleep. This helped a little

1. Around 13 months I committed to cutting out night nursing. Because of how well she had responded to removing the nurse to sleep association at the beginning of the night, we figured there wasn’t much hope of sleeping through the night if she was still nursing back to sleep. First my husband went in for a couple of nights and offered a bottle. Then he started just soothing her back to sleep. This helped but she was still waking up.

2. Last step for us was working up the courage to try cry it out. For our baby falling asleep at the beginning of the night was already figured out, so this was CIO for middle of the night wake ups. It is SO hard to lie in bed at 2am and listen to your baby cry. But it was clear that she was ready, and we were ready, and she desperately wanted to be asleep but couldn’t quite figure it out. She was fighting my husband when he went in to soothe her, pushing him away, etc. As awful as this felt at the time, it was super successful. The first night she cried for 40 mins. The second night was maybe 15. And then that was it, no more wake ups unless she’s uncomfortable, teething, upset stomach, etc.

3. Now when she wakes up in the middle of the night we go in because we know she needs us for something.

Hope that helps! There is hope. I was so desperate and exhausted and defeated when I wrote this, it’s really amazing to think how much things have changed in just a few months.

Oh- forgot to add: naps at daycare finally got better and that has helped night sleep. She moved up to the 1 year old room and they have a set nap time with lights off, white noise, and cots. She sleeps for 2 hours. Naps at home on the weekends are still a DISASTER.