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I'm new to the site and i currently have a 22 month old that i lay down with on the floor in her room to get to sleep and then when she wakes in the middle of the night i go in and end up co-sleeping with her in our guest bedroom. At the beginning of the year i messed up my back (could no longer sit in the rocking chair while she went to sleep) and had to sleep train her (which wasn't nearly as bad as i thought considering she's always had sleep problems). Well she started putting herself to sleep and sleeping thru the night for over 3 months, until at the end of April she threw up two nights in a row at bed time and became afraid of her crib. Now i don't know what to do with sleep training her since she has recently become adept at climb out of the crib. I can literally turn around and she's horizontal on the corner of the crib. I don't know whether i should try a crib tent or make the switch to a toddler bed since i'm already co-sleeping with her now. Any pointers would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Stephanie

Thanks for the suggestions Debbye.

I did forget to mention that when she wakes in the middle of the night she has started asking for milk, which of course i have given in small amounts in a sippy cup (she was cutting her I-teeth very recently and i figured the cold milk helped her teething pain, which she has always been sensitive to teething). Well i believe the sippy cup is now a sleep association for her. I have also been giving her a sippy cup of cold water during bedtime. I'm assuming that before I start a sleep training plan (of me getting her to soothe herself to sleep) that I need to get rid of the sippy cup at bedtime and during the night. Hence get rid of one sleep association before tackling her other sleep association, which is ME. Boy, they are quick to pick up things and take hold of them.  

I'm also assuming that since at the beginning of the year when i basically told her that i could no longer sit in the rocking chair and hold her to sleep (because it hurt my back and i proceeded to cuddle her in the chair instead and then tell her nite nite and place her in her crib, which she would then cry for around 10 minutes and then fall asleep and sleep thru the night) that she is not too terribly strong willed.

Here lately she has been sleeping better in between wakings. At the very beginning when i would pick her up and co-sleep with her her sleep in between wakings was agitated and when she would wake up she would wake up screaming and fussy. Hence i didn't know if she could have been having nightmares in there too.

Thanks for listening and any insight you may have.

Stephanie