DD is 23 months and for the past couple of months it’s been an absolute nightmare getting her to sleep.
I have absolutely no problem sitting in her room, or at the door, with her while she falls asleep. The problem is she doesn’t fall asleep for hours. She constantly grins at us, chats to us, asks for things, tells us she’s done a poo (she hasn’t, but she knows we’ll check her and she thinks this is funny) etc, we ignore most of this but it makes no difference to her. It’s taking about 4 hours+ to get her to go to sleep, and she wakes at 6am, so she’s constantly miserable because she’s having about 7 hours sleep.
But if we try to leave, she cries, really horrible distraught sobbing. But she does go to sleep (i’d guess in under 10 mins, we’ve only done it a couple of times out of sheer desperation), she doesn’t get out of bed. It feels horrible but is this better?? She’ll then have 11ish hours sleep and is happier in the day time. 2 months of 7 hours sleep a night almost every night must be taking its toll on her (it’s taking its toll on me!). She doesn’t nap much either, it’s about 15 mins a day at nursery, a bit longer on the weekends as we push her in the pram, and she’s just constantly exhausted and miserable.
Will this pass? It’s been 2 months and if anything it’s getting worse, not improving.