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[quote=Anonymous]She is 2 1/2.  Sleep training has never worked.  We've tried the cry it out, the Ferber, etc.  She takes no comfort in us trying to soothe her back to sleep - she either wants to play when she sees us or she is so out of it and angry that she continues to be mad/sad if we try to pick her up.  She doesn't cuddle and has never been one to lay in bed with us or be rocked to sleep.  She does like when we rub her back, it calms her crying down, but she has never gone back to sleep while we do this.  And if we do it and walk out of the room, the crying returns.  She has always had trouble sleeping, often awake for 1-2 hours during the night with frequent wakings (ever since infancy).  Generally, we don't go into her room and we haven't really done anything for her since she was about 18 months (when we would sometimes give her a bottle if you couldn't self-soothe).  Shortly after 18 months she starts sleeping on her belly and her sleep improved.  She was able to rock on all 4's to self-soothe and put herself back to bed.  About a month ago she got a cold and that made her sleep on her back and she can't seem to get back to her belly.  When I try to roll her to her belly, she rolls right back, but she just lays on her back and flails/cries.  It is heartbreaking.  I wouldn't even mind holding her, rocking her, if it worked, but it doesn't (it is so much worse then).  She eventually goes back to sleep on her own at night, but she'll usually cry for over an hour and she's been waking more at night and earlier in the morning and naps have decreased from about 75 min to 30 min (or less).  We can't seem to get out of this bad cycle.  Oh, and now when she wakes from the nap after 30 min, she is very upset, sometimes for up to an hour after.  She clearly wants to sleep more, but is having trouble doing so.  Thank you for your help!  All suggestions welcome!  :-)[/quote]

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