Two year old sleep pattern has gone out the window

[RLmadmum]

Hi all!

Looking for support and a handhold basically!

My little one turns two next week and her sleeping has completely gone out the window. She's resisting her naps in the day and wants to be breastfed the second I walk in the door from work. I'm trying to wean her off the breast so it's a testing time at the moment. At bedtime, she is completely refusing to settle down, it's like she's completely forgotten her routine. She will only sleep if she feeds to sleep and then transitioning her into the cot wakes her up and we start all over again. Wakes religiously at 3:30am singing her ABC's 🙈 It's only happened the last few days but it's come so out of the blue and I'm genuinely confused what's gone wrong! Any advice would be massively appreciated as I feel like we're regressing back to the newborn stage.

Thank you x

Hi @RLmadmum if you're trying to stop BFing can I ask how you're doing it? Have you tried the "don't offer/don't refuse method"?

Where is she when she naps? Is she at Nursery?

And if she's suddenly waking could this be because she's having less BM and is hungry or do you think it's the drop in temperature that we're experiencing here in the UK?

Could she be going through a development leap. I notice they seem to throw all routine out the window when they do😂

Honestly can't weigh it up. I think it could be the temperature but it's like someone's just flipped a switch and she's just not sleeping 🥴 Almost a week without a nap in the afternoon and she's exhausted. I don't offer, but don't refuse when she wants it but try to limit how long she's on if that makes sense.

Jeeez, I'm tired. I don't even think she was this bad as a newborn 🙈

Is she getting adequate food? Is she active and busy lots of walking / running. They need to tire themselves out for good sleep at night.
My DS1 now turned 3 his sleep was horrendous but got better gradually as he got older. But when he was 2 his sleep was still a mess. Napped like a champ 2/3 hours but bedtime was a battle and we jad to sit by him until he fell asleep. He would need some reassurance at night. He was in our room until DS2 was 2 months old. Took fuether 6 weeks to get him to his own room sleeping independently and through the night.
Still bad on sick days etc. But finally sleeping 8-7 otherwise.

Each kid is different and needs small adjustments.

For us weeing was the big game changer and we did that at 22 months of age.