Currently still waiting for her to go to sleep having started tonight's bedtime at 6.30pm!
My daughter is 15 months old. She is a good sleeper - self-settles throughout the night. Goes to sleep alone without rocking or being held (cut that out a while ago and don't want to take a backward step). Although I do sit in the room until she is asleep, in an armchair in the corner pretending to be asleep myself!
She wakes around 7am. She has one nap a day now which is around about 12/12.30pm and lasts for a couple of hours. For this she goes into her cot, rolls over and falls asleep within ten minutes - no fuss, no crying. I always have to wake her and that is no later than 3pm. Dinner is 5pm and she is in bed at 7pm. We have a solid and consistent bedtime routine of bath, milk in her room with lights low and a couple of stories.
As soon as the lights go out bedtime is then full of her standing up, screaming, throwing her dummy across the room, wanting picking up then screaming to be put back down. I've abandoned bedtime a few times and then she is happy as Larry downstairs until about 10pm which is a nightmare!
What are your thoughts on what's going wrong at bedtime? I seem to be doing everything the same and nap works but bedtime doesn't!
I have an 8 year old with autism and ADHD who also refuses to sleep - I can't cope with the baby doing this too!!!