My DD turned 2 in January and her sleep is still a nightmare. She's still breastfeeding a lot and I don't know how to wean her because she loves it so much. I'd say if anything we were down to morning and bedtime feeds and now she's developed the habit of waking up in the night again for a comfort feed. If we're very lucky she'll go to sleep around 8pm then she'll cry anytime between midnight and 2am and either DH or I will end up taking her into the spare room to sleep there.
I don't really know what to do to wean her off breastfeeding and get her sleeping through the night.
The biggest logistical issue for us is that she shares a room with DS, who is 4. If it weren't for DD's antics, DD would go to sleep quite happily by 8pm and sleep straight through until 7am or even later. Because they share a room, when DD cries in the night I feel we have to take her away into another room because otherwise she will wake DS up.
I suspect she just has fairly low sleep needs, and because she's having a long nap at nursery each day, she's just not tired enough at night.
The two things I am considering are moving bedtime back by half an hour, or experimenting with reducing or even dropping her lunchtime nap in July when she won't be at nursery.
The downside of moving bedtime back by half an hour is that we would end up doing the same for both kids and I think DS really does need that much sleep.
Reducing or cutting her naps over the summer might work (or it might just mean our summer holiday is ruined by tantrums and meltdowns) but there's no guarantee the nursery would respect the new rhythm when she goes back in August.
WWYD?