Chucking toys out of the cot and not sleeping

[jennyh]

Hello

Anyone have experience of when toddler starts lobbing sleepy toys out of the cot? Been doing is on and off for a week and not sure on the best approach. She has a teddy and a little cow to go to sleep and without them she cries and cries and just won't drop off. We've tried going in and making no contact but putting them back in then leaving, tried picking her up and calming her and then putting her back down cuddling the toys - always ends up with them back on the floor. Lots of calls of mummy and daddy and uh-oh, teddy, cow etc. she's a good communicator and we've tried saying 'where does teddy sleep' and she'll point to the bed and say cot, teddy is tired, teddy is asleep etc. not sure what else to do, not happy to leave her sobbing but equally will not be getting into the habit of being summoned every 5 minutes!

[VanessaPMR]

Ha! My daughter has gone through a phase of doing exactly the same with her soother (which she also needs (really really wants) for sleep). We actually did pop up (every 5 mins) to give her her soothers back.. but with as little fun interaction as possible, only telling her that it was bedtime and time to go to sleep and that it was naughty to throw the soothers on the floor. She only does it very occasionally now.. and does so with a HUGE cheeky grin on her face. She tends to do it on days when she's had less interaction with us than she'd like.. (which often has no relationship with the amount of quality time she did get..sigh).

xx