I'm going through a divorce and overnights started last weekend for my 19 month old daughter (forgive, I don't know all the short cut letters yet for faster posting.) He only comes once a month and it is for one night during the 4 day visit. (not my idea...)

Overnight went...I was called several times by Dad but he figured something out. Baby was "ok" when she came back to me. But...she was exhausted. Apparently she did not sleep...or if she did it was fitfully. We "practiced" the weekend before with her great aunt and uncle...they said she did fine. After both of these overnights she took almost 4 hour naps the next day (a rare occasion) and slept 8 hours straight through the night the next night. She usually sleeps in 4 hour intervals waking up to nurse.

I've been putting her down in her own bed (bed on the floor that I lay down in and nurse her to sleep and then go to her immediately every time she calls for me. this has been working But by 5 am we are snuggled up together in my bed, which I love and I know she does to.) Hope is that she will get use to sleeping alone so when she goes with Dad it isn't so foreign. Doing the same night time routine so that Dad could follow it.
Any suggestions? am I going about this all wrong?