19 month old will not settle at night 😢

[secretgirl]

Hi.
I have the most beautiful 19 month old daughter but I am at the stage where i dread every evening as she will not settle to sleep. It is taking anywhere between 1.5 hrs and 4 hours to get her down.
Basically I generally gives her a bottle about 7.30ish juat sitting on the bed my bedroom. She lies back in my arms and I feed her the bottle. She will not drink it herlsef. She then lies there for AGES moving around. Pulling her hair. Yawning. Chatting laughing. You name it.
I have tried putting her into her own cot with the bottle. I have tried lying down beside her etc and she just loses it. You would think someone was trying to murder her. She is very very hyper during the day too. She has a nap generally about 11am for 1.5 hours.
Can any one suggest anything for us please?
TIA X

Mine was dreadful at this age. And was also up at about 5am if I did manage to get him to sleep.

It definitely improved almost immediately his speech was more fluent. I think he was using bedtime to practice his speaking and keeping himself and everyone else awake.