Like the title says I have what feels like a permanently exhausted 3.5 year old, and I'm running out of ideas!
DC has a solid bedtime routine, bath, stories, asleep by 7:30pm - 90% of the time. DC again, 90% of the time sleeps through until around anytime between 6 and 7am.
DC dropped the daytime nap about 8 months ago, but is usually trying to have a nap anytime from 9/10am.
I'm at a loss on what I can do, quite frankly DC is a nightmare to be around when so tired, biting, hitting, attitude, and everything is a drama because DC is soo tired... I think.
I feel like we have tried everything to try and reduce how tired DC is
- earlier bedtime for more nighttime sleep. (This either ends in a later sleep time that day as DC will fight to go to sleep, or an earlier wake which just puts us 2 steps back for the next day)
- reintroducing the lunch nap, which derails bedtime.
- napping in the car to/from places. This helps initially but within an hour / hour and half DC is back to being exhausted again.
- cutting back activities and more chill time
- reducing screen time (already minimal)
I have a doctors appointment booked, to check there isn't anything else going on... maybe an Iron deficiency is what springs to mind, but I'm at a a loss.
Is there anything painfully obvious that I'm missing here that I can be doing to help DC?