Hello
My girl is 2 years old - never been a great sleeper, but she will now usually sleep from about 8pm - 7am during the holidays. When I go back to work, though, she seems to realise she has hardly seen me all day and won't go to sleep until 10/11pm. She will literally scream and make herself vomit through crying while sobbing 'my mummy, my mummy, come back come back' if we put her down much before 10pm. She will then go to sleep after a few more stories and hugs and general company keeping.
She also is not a brilliant eater - she says she is very hungry, and then eats enough to take the edge off her appetite, but is then hungry again a few hours later. Of course, bedtime then becomes a time when she has bread and butter and milk as another stalling technique, even thought she had eaten quite a bit today.
I still give her a short BF at night before bed, so bedtime is still down to me - my OH does bath time usually.
My concerns are, obviously, when am I going to have time to do any work?! I stay on at school for an extra hour and a half, but that isn't enough to keep up with marking/planning etc. I've already gone to 4 days a week to cope. And I am 5 months pg again, so am worried the whole cycle is going to start again after I have been on maternity leave again.
Any sage words of advice/similar stories?! She is delightful, fortunately, which makes it slightly easier to bear...