Hi all - I just found this forum today and I would like to get some input from you all - my daughter is about to turn 2, she sleeps with us and still nurses around the clock (yes she eats solids too!). She has always been a good sleeper in that she seldom wakes during the night and if she does she nurses back to sleep immediately. Until recently our nighttime routine was to have a bath, and then read books until she asked to nurse, then we'd go into the bed and she'd nurse herself to sleep. I don't let her watch commercial TV or DVDs or anything like that, however, I teach one music class to children each week and I had a training video I needed to watch a couple of times. It just wasn't getting done so I decided to watch it with her in the bed at night. She quickly became interested and then obsessed with watching it (its just a video camera focused on a music class, she goes to these classes herself so I guess it was familiar). She begs to watch it every night and cries alot if I try to say no. I would be OK with it if I could limit it to a few minutes each night, but when I try to turn it off she also cries, alot. But if I leave it on it has the same effect as watching the Tonight Show has on me, which is that she'll stay up watching long past the point where she would have fallen asleep if it wasn't on. Because of this sleep is becoming a problem since she wants to stay up later and later each night. On the other hand I just hate having to end our day together in tears every night.
I hope I have made some sense with my story here, thanks for listening anyway, its helpful just to get it all out, but I would also love to have your input!