Need some help with my 20 month old before I loose the plot and hoping you lovely mums or dads can help me.
Pretty standard routine, 2 hour nap In the day, bed time routine of watching night garden, go upstairs about 6.45 for bath or wash, teeth, pjs, 2 stories, a song , bottle of milk and down for sleep. Mostly goes to sleep easily, maybe gets out of bed once but will settle.
Then we get to midnight -1am and she is awake, and no matter what type of putting back to bed I try she is wide awake until about 3-4am when she either falls asleep in my bed or in her own.
I have tried sitting by her bed, sitting in the room, putting her in my bed, ignoring her, letting her cry. Nothing seems to work.
For background she has never been a great sleeper and has woken up at about 4am but normally goes back to sleep with some milk. She is also in toddler bed because she was trying to climb our the cot but has been ok until a few weeks ago.
I do sometimes have to wake her up from naps and try to limit it to 2hours max.
At night I dont turn lights on, and try to keep talking to a minimum but it's trying my patience at times
The other issue is that she wont let daddy put her to bed or settle in the night, if he tries she screams the house down calling me until I deal with it. If I go to her she doesn't cry or moan.
To add to my sleep deprivation I am 9 weeks pregnant and suffering with horrible nausea and sickness.
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas of where I am going wrong it would be gratefully recieved because I no longer know what to do.
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