DD just turned 2 in February and since she was about 12 weeks old, she has slept all night apart from a few nights she was up with teething.
She was put into her own room with a bed and safety rail at 18 months as she kept climbing out of the cot and falling. All good there, she loves it and has slept every night in it since! 9pm-8pm and a 1-2 hour nap every day.
2 nights ago, I took her up to bed at 9pm as normal, and she screamed and cried when I left and closed her stair gate for a minute. Then she got up to play. I went up to check on her a few times to see if she had fallen asleep on the floor but she heard me and screamed and cried until eventually I just let her out.
I took her down to my room at about 11.45pm and got her into my bed but she just mucked around for a hour until I was exhausted and put her back to her own bed. Eventually she went to sleep.
Last night however, we had dinner, bath and play time just before bed and went up as normal. I left, she cried for a minute, stopped and I thought all was good.
Went downstairs to watch tv, came up to bed at 11:30pm and went up to turn her lamp off.
She was in her tent playing! I turned all lights off, put her back into bed but she wasn't having it. Cried - went back into her tent and was reading a book in pitch black!
Obviously this made me feel terrible so i took her back into my bed again.
She didn't go to sleep until 3:30am this morning! I was then up at 6 to feed 4 month old Ds, partner got up at 7:30 to go to work and DD got up at 7:45!
What is going on with her?? How can I avoid this again tonight ?
I was thinking of keeping her awake during the day but sometimes she didn't nap during the day and was grumpy and miserable allll day.
She was also fall asleep around 6-7 and treat that like a nap and be up again at 10 ready to play so I think the naps are important.
Heeeeeelp