Hi all, I’m after some advice on getting my 2.5 year old to go to bed without screaming the house down every night!
She was an awful sleeper for the first year of her life (6-8 wakings every night, fed to sleep etc.) but she seemed to click when we moved her into her own room at 11.5 months. Since then she has generally slept through like a dream. Putting her to bed has never been super quick but recently it has turned into a nightmare.
Her routine is up at 7:30, when she’s at home she’s in her cot for a nap around 1-3pm (she doesn’t sleep all that time, I’d say she gets around 1.5 hours sleep), when she’s at nursery the nap is more 12:30-2. She goes upstairs for a bath at around 7 then stories, a cuddle and into her cot around 7:45.
For the last 1.5 hours she has been screaming and screaming. DH and I have taken it in turns to be in her room with her (he’s still in there while I’m feeding our 6 week old). She’s trying every delaying tactic in the book (wants whichever one of us isn’t there, wants a story, doesn’t want a story, wants us to sing to her, doesn’t want us to sing to her, wants milk, just wants a “little cuddle”, needs a different blanket, needs a different toy etc.) Today is particularly bad but she’s been like this every night for the last 2-2.5 months.
I’m hoping it’s just a phase but if anyone has any ideas of what could help I’d be very, very grateful!