DD is just two. Whatever we do at the moment she doesn't go to sleep till at least 9pm. This is not the end of the world as in other ways her sleep is pretty good these days (has not always been so) but I'm struggling not to have a bit more evening time. I'm pregnant and really need to be in bed by 10pm myself but fitting in a few jobs and then a bit of time with dp is tough in the time.
She gets up quite late. This morning dp had to literally drag her out of bed at 7.30. Otherwise she'd have slept till 8/8.30 (lovely but on balance would prefer earlier start and earlier bedtime.)
She would like to nap for an hour at about 1pm but if she does it can be 10pm before she's asleep at night. So, I'm trying to get the nap earlier or not at all and am waking her after half an hour max. She's not thrilled about this but once awake is refreshed to last till bedtime.
Our bedtime routine is pretty solid - bath, bottle, stories. But she gets this second wind in bed and wants to get up, bounce, play, anything except curl up for slumber.
I've just bought a blackout blind as I think that would help.
I'm going to buy some kind of in-between lighting so that we have something very calm between bedside light and dark.
But it feels like whatever we do it's 9pm for her and right now it's feeling a bit tough.
As I said to dp last night, actually it's not a biggest problem in the world by some stretch and maybe we should just ride this phase as it will disappear like others.
But with a new baby due in three months I could do with a bit of time before it all goes haywire again.
Sorry this is a bit rambly, any thoughts would be welcome.
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How can I persuade my two year old into earlier nights?
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alittleteapot · 15/06/2009 09:13
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