DD is 2.8, but developmentally closer to 2. And she will not sleep!
We have a bedtime routine of bath-ITNG-medication-book-teeth-bed.
I often hear her playing when I go to bed at 11pm. I've tried returning her to bed (she's in a toddler bed) but she just gets up again as soon as I've left the room. I returned her to bed 47 times one night and she still got up to play immediately afterwards. DH says she's sometimes playing when he gets up for work at 5am. She has a blackout blind (one of those gro anywhere ones) and curtains but it doesn't seem to make a difference, she can't reach the light switch but doesn't seem to care and just plays. We've tried lights on, lights off, a nightlight, music, white noise, letting her have the cat in her room, shutting the cat out of her room, thinner duvet, thicker duvet, no duvet and just her blanket. We've taken all the toys out of her room and she just wandered round the room babbling to herself.
I'm not sleeping because she shouts me in the night, wanting to play. DH works 6.30am-5pm, and is exhausted when he gets in so is no help. He works 6 days so can't really help anytime.
She's in Nursery 3 days a week when I work but even that's not tiring her out and staff say she walks around babbling to herself while the other children sleep at naptime.
I am on my knees with exhasution. No naps and no help from DH. I've taken her to the Doctors but he says there's nothing physically wrong with her. She just never seems tired.
Any ideas on getting her to sleep? I am making myself ill being awake all the time, she just never seems to stop. Neither DM or MIL will have her overnight if she won't sleep, so I have no help. I just want to sleep.