hi, does anyone ave any advice to offer on how to get my 13 month old to accept it's bedtime and go to sleep?? she's never been a brilliant sleeper, but just recently she has become impossible and just won't go down. her bedtime routine has been consistent, dinner, bath, story, milk, bed, but she simply won't lay down and go to sleep. despite showing lots of signs of tiredness, she manages to wake herself up to the point where we've had to take her out in the car to get her off. we are at the stage where dh wants to try cc, which i am just not happy with. gave it a brief try tonight afterwhich she was inconsolable for yonks. we ended up in the car again....
the worst of this has kind of tied in with her childminder taking 2 weeks off (back tomorrow) and our changing our room around (sleeps in cot wit us). dh convinced these have no bearing but i'm not sure. i am desperate to find a way forward though as we have another bundle of joy due in 11 weeks. all a bit scary.
at the moment we are tryin to get her down at 7.30ish, though i know of plenty of children her age who go down later, but dh is reluctant to change the bedtime (and it is only a recentish issue) as he wants to have a bit of chill out time before hitting the hay himself. i just don't have a clue what else we can try. any thoughts/ideas/experience very welcome