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I have my 16 month old grandbaby living with me, who is to say at the least a handful. She is very active and curious and she never ever slows down. She has always been difficult to get to sleep, and she isn’t showing any signs of getting any better. She wakes up a couple of times a night. She is still very much attached to the bottle. We have tried the weaning process, but she has always been so sick with ear aches and colds that the right time never seems to be here. The bottle is her lifeline to sleep. She is too hyper to sleep with us, and that isn’t the perfect solution anyway, but when we have tried this, she just climbs and tosses all over the bed. We have tried letting her cry it out, some, but as I said she is often sick, and I hate to let a sick baby cry too long. If any of you out there in cyber world have any ideas, let me in on any hidden secrets. When my son was little we eventually cleared out his room of almost everything except bean bags and safe toys, and he would get up in the middle of the night and play himself to sleep. He did this until he was 7-8 years old. Even then, he would get in bed and read himself to sleep. He is 23 now and he still only needs 5-6 hours a night. This is ABNORMAL behavior, but I think my grandbaby is following in her uncle’s footsteps, and I don’t know if I can handle this crazyness! Serena