Toddlers nap and school run

[TinyDancer275]

Hello!

How do you juggle your toddlers nap ie, what time/ how long, if you also have to do the school run?

I have a 2.5 year old daughter who struggles with sleep in the night. Once she wakes up ( which is most nights, she is awake for 3-4 hours, she can't get back to sleep and she headbangs.)

I have a sleep diary and I have noticed a slight pattern for a few times that when ever she has a slightly later 2 hour ish nap, say 1.30-3.30, she goes to sleep straight away and at night she has been better ( as in Slept through).
It's the Easter holidays and I haven't had to do the school run so I've been able to let her sleep till 3.30pm.
Normally, her nap is usually 1-3 ( then have to leave to do school run) and bedtime 8 ish as a general rule.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed a difference when it's the holidays and also how you juggle your toddlers naps and having an older child - and if your toddler sleeps through!

Any tips would be appreciated, thank you!

Xx

@potofivy

Have a look at Little Ones schedules. Worked for my 4 year old and currently working with my 3 month old

I agree with this. If the issue is over tiredness an earlier bed time may be the solution

@AliceW89 generally upset. It starts with crying/ head banging. I go in and settle her then she usually goes quiet, then I go out and it starts again.
She's currently in a cot. My partner been sleeping downstairs on sofa due to the banging noise.
Sometimes to settle her, after keeping going back in and out, I climb in her cot and it does seem to settle her but then she just can't get back to sleep so starts thrashing about, screaming, banging. Then I leave the cot and it starts again. It's all a bit of a mess really and so so stressful especially when I'm working the next day! X

I don't want her to really come into my bed as ideally, I want my partner to cone back in! Will probably get her a bed so I can go in to settle her.
I really wish that she would either sleep through, or if she wakes , to be happy and go back to sleep not too long after! X