I am at my wits end with my daughter. She’s 2 1/2 and for weeks, I have had literally no evening because she will not go to sleep. I can’t remember the last time I even ate dinner.
She doesn’t nap and hasn’t done since she was 19 months old. She has a set bedtime routine of bath, stories and cuddle and is always in bed for the stories around half sevenish but then when lights go out she’s wriggling, messing about, chatting. It’s worth saying at this point she needs one of us in with her to go to sleep. We tried and failed with sleep training her as a baby after a truly horrendous experience with a charlatan sleep consultant. But it’s never been a problem until now. I just don’t understand why she won’t go to sleep. We’ve tried getting her up early and even that’s not helped, she was up at 6:45 this morning and she’s still awake now. Surely this is not normal.