23m old suddenly decided she cant go to sleep on her own. send wine

[Jammofifi]

Hi So my 23m old DD, after a couple of unplanned late naps 2 weeks ago ( thanks granny ), now refuses to go to sleep on her own. Prior to this I was strolling in without a care in the world, depositing her into her cot and just walking out ( after a good bedtime routine of course ) and she would drift off within 5 minutes. It was amazing and she did this for about a year!! Now I have to sit in there for about 45mins until she's deep enough not to be disturbed as I leave. Controlled crying doesn't work with this one, I've tried. She's also number 3 ( making this routine just unworkable ) so I do have a good working knowledge of this hell. Any interesting tips or cheats? Already using a radio for white noise as her floorboards are the creakiest since Jonathan. Might try backing out slowly over a few nights but I did that with my 2nd DD and she just kicked off when I got to the point where I was leaving the doorway anyway.

I have no advice but found your post after searching for answers for my own 23 month old.
I used to be able to put her in her cot and walk away all smug like but suddenly she stopped going down, refused her grobag which had previously been her absolute sleep aid and then climbed out of the cot / refused to get back in.

I switched her to the cotbed but now I fear I did that too soon and I’ve resorted to turning the open side to the wall but that just infuriates her.

When I’m rational I know that she did adjust well to the cotbed and we were getting there with a return to phased out down.

I think this is the onset of a 2yr sleep regression. I’ve just read that an average 2yr old needs about 12 hrs sleep In 24. So I’m going to try only letting her nap for 1hr so that a) she hopefully goes back to going to bed earlier than 9pm and b) stays in bed at night 🤞🏼