Bedtime battles!

[Riggles78]

Hi all, looking for some advice for getting our 15 month old to sleep!
Currently she's taking about an hour (if not longer sometimes) to go to bed. This has only started recently and seems to have coincided with her (finally) sleeping through the night consistently. She doesn't get upset unless we try and leave the room before she's asleep, she's just messing about, shouting, singing, crawling in her cot, standing up, lying down, anything but going to sleep!
Her usual routine is as follows:

Wake up 6:30ish

Breakfast 7:00
Nap around 11:30-12:45/13:00
Lunch 13:00
Dinner 17:15
Bath 18:30
Bed 18:45

My mum is suggesting that we need to do a bit of cry it out, but I'm not too keen on that.

Is she going to bed too early?

Her day time naps are short but they always have been, problems going to bed have only started since she started sleeping through so maybe she needs a later bedtime since she's not waking up during the night anymore?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

My LO sounds the exact same and is the same age. I've just given up breastfeeding and put it down to that I'm not nursing her to sleep anymore.
Unfortunately I haven't found a solution yet because no amount of rocking or cuddling works, she wants to be walking around playing! The only way I've gotten her to sleep is putting her in the pram or car. I'm not willing to do cry it out either as I know she'd cry for at least an hour.
Hopefully we both find a solution soon.

@LHMW Thanks for replying!

I think we're in the exact same boat! Also recently weaned from breastfeeding and ours would also cry for an hour if we tried any kind of cry it out! Hopefully it's just a post-breastfeeding stage and we both get some respite soon!

In the same boat with our 18 mo… though stopped breastfeeding about 3 months ago, cuddling to sleep worked for a while but nothing does now. It’s taking well over an hour every night.