Is your toddler showing one or more of the following exhausting behaviours during the night, as a pattern over time? Is your toddler

• Awake for long periods

• Breastfeeding for long periods

• Unable to fall back into deep sleep for long periods

• Waking as soon as you put her down

• Only sleeping when in contact with your body?

Then your toddler has developed excessive night waking, which can result in quite awful parental sleep deprivation! Your toddler's two sleep regulators have become disrupted. Her sleep pressure isn't high enough to sustain blocks of sleep, because her body clock is out of sync with yours, and with day and night.

If this is your situation, a reset of your little one's body clock is required! It might take a couple of weeks to return to normal night waking, as you try out various strategies and do a reset of her body clock, but families typically find that nights - and their lives - with their little one become easier and more enjoyable, once they've done this.