really hope someone can give some advice or even just relate to this….
our 2.5 year old is becoming increasingly hard to put down to sleep of a night time, we spend sometimes over an hour going back in and setting him back in bed, he constantly asked her juice/milk/cuddles anything to stall bed time. He will eventually go to sleep but it is a battle and by then he is over tired. We have tried earlier and later bed times, cutting down his day time nap, cutting OUT his day time nap, tried leaving him to it (he gets hysterical and I can’t do that to him).
the worst part is he also wakes up at 5am EVERY morning, without fail. We have a stair gate on his room and go in and tell him to go back to bed or to play quietly in his room until mummy or daddy come and get him (we think 6am is the earliest reasonable time to be awake). This results in him shouting and crying which I worry probebly wakes up our neighbours so I end up taking him downstairs and laying on the sofa with him until it’s 6am and then I will allow tv or breakfast etc. just so he isn’t in the habit of getting what he wants the minute he wakes up.
he isn’t getting enough sleep because of all this and it’s turned into a cycle and I think he is just programmed to wake up like this now.
we have another baby on the way due in 6 months time and I am desperate to get this sorted! Anyone else have this issue? What helped? Does it just resolve itself?
up until maybe 2 months ago he went to bed no issue at around 6.45 and would wake up at 6am with no dramas. He was admittedly a very diffuser babg with allergies and Colic and didn’t sleep well at all until he was 16 months old. So sleep has been a problem in the past. Just thought it would improve with age not get worse 😂😂