Hello,
Wondering if someone can offer any wisdom please. DD currently taking over an hour to get to bed and after losing my patience with her this evening I'm looking for some help!
My second child, first DD. Neither of my two were good sleepers as babies but slept through pretty reliably from 12/13 months and for that I am grateful, honestly, after going through some super tough months. Just wanting some advice here.
My second child, first DD, is 20 months and will not go to bed until 8.15pm. She's then up not long past 6am. She will nap, but has to fall asleep on my shoulder and takes about 25 minutes to do that (it's hard to leave my 3 year old for that long too, screen time it is). If I put her in her cot she'd either take longer or scream and not nap. There are days, after a particularly long night sleep, where she won't nap, the afternoons sometimes long and hard but she gets through and is asleep in seconds at 7pm (would probably be sooner, that's the earliest I've done it). Once I've put her down for her nap I wake her after an hour or so. I've tried longer, shorter, doesn't seem to have an affect on evenings. If she's napped, she's a nightmare to get to bed. She sings, chats, kicks her legs, and makes sure im constantly there. If I leave, like I tried to tonight, she's very quickly sick. So tonight I cleaned her up and sat back down next to her. Starts clicking her tongue again and i lost my patience. Feel like I don't have any evening and then she's up early. Tonight was particularly frustrating because she seemed shattered before bed, we've had a busy day. Her eyes just don't close!!
Would anyone be advising to drop naps?
Sorry for the long message and thank you so much if you've read to the bottom