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2.5 yr old won’t go to sleep at night HELP

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Anjied · 01/04/2021 21:41

Hi all
Looking for some advice
Until recently myself, partner & child all shared a bedroom. We also mainly lived in the room I.e. watched tv in there in the evening while she went to sleep
We recently moved & she now has her own room but we haven’t moved her in there yet we r letting her settle into the new home.
The trouble is she now will not settle & go to sleep in the evening till we go to bed at 10-10:30 even if 1 or both is us stay in the room with her.
She will scream & want out her bed & in the big bed. Even if we let her in she then won’t sleep. She then wants back in her bed but just lays there awake, if we leave she gets upset.
We don’t know what else to try/ do to help her settle & relax to go to sleep
Anyone else experienced this? What did you do to help your child.
Also how best do we then introduce her into her own room?
Thanks

OP posts:
FATEdestiny · 02/04/2021 09:17

I would give it a few weeks after moving and then sleep train with her in her own room.

Until then establish her room as a fantastic place to be.

Play in there, not just a bit here and there but for whole mornings or whole afternoons. You with her and lots of active, positive play.

Also have plenty of snuggly quiet times in there. Reading a book or watching tv (on your phone/tablet or whatever) in there rather than downstairs.

As part of this time with you and her spending lots of time in her room, start leaving her in there to play on her own. With a tablet propped up watching CBeebies, or playing with bricks, or colouring or anything really. But once she's busy, encourage her to play and stay in her room on her own.

Until she's happy and content in her room on her own, you've got no chance of getting her to sleep in there.

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