(Am fully aware this is a rod-for-my-own-back situation but I'd be very grateful if posters could avoid channelling my mother & saying "I told you so"
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DD2 is 2 next week. She was breastfed until a month ago & we stopped the night feed about 6 weeks ago. Bedtime involves, bottle, teeth, story... and then me sitting with her, cuddling, singing etc until she falls asleep. It has improved slightly in that I can sometimes spend sections of the time sitting at the end of the bed ignoring her while she wriggles about. The whole process takes about an hour.
In reality I don't mind it too much, it's only an hour & it's a relatively peaceful process.
BUT
nobody else can put her to bed. DH tried tonight but she just wouldn't settle for him at all (I was out at the start of the process but came home later & took over). I haven't been out after 7pm since she was born unless you count taking her with me to visit friends when she was tiny. to be fair I haven't particularly wanted to, I don't have pub going friends here, although I quite fancy a trip to the cinema
I fully admit to being a real softy at bedtime which doesn't help as I'm not willing to just close the door & let her cry.
Please help. I'd like to be able to leave the house in the evenings and maybe even graduate to getting a babysitter & going out with DH