hi
im confused about bed time at the moment! My 2 year old just point blank refuses to fall asleep with me.
she used to only sleep laying on me and cuddling. Then the last couple of weeks she’s started asking to go in the crib, she cries when I cuddle her at night and says crib and points. I say do you want me to lay you in your crib and she says yes.
then I lay her down and she starts being silly and standing up laughing.
I’ve tried laying down on the floor pretending I’m asleep, keeping a hand on her, not saying anything and laying her back down then keeping a hand on her, bum patting, leaving the room and going back in when she cries… and I think that’s everything.
im a single parent and when my dad is here he will go up and do bedtime for me - she goes down almost instantly for him.
I really don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I know the first thing people will say is ‘is she actually tired’ - yesterday is an example where she had a 30 minute nap early in the day, she proceeded to do swimming and run around the park for hours on end with her friend, she was exhausted but still wouldn’t sleep.
I toyed with the idea of her being over tired, but the once lovely routine we had that included a lovely nap routine is all out the window. She acts like this for naps as well. But in nursery she lies down and goes straight to sleep…
im praying someone has some insight as I am exhausted. It takes me absolutely ages to put her down to bed these days - sometimes I’m so hungry (if it’s a day where she’s has dinner at nursery and I plan to eat once she goes to sleep), that I end up bringing her downstairs again with me just so I can eat sometimes and so she can burn some more energy - but even this doesn’t work.
my once wonderful sleep routine has turned into a dreaded nightmare.