A post I’m sure that’s been done to death over the years but looking for advice as I feel I’m failing.
DS was 2 in July. Never been a good sleeper. Still wakes most nights. Sometimes will self settle, other times I’ll give him some milk & he will fall back to sleep.
hes at that weird stage where he doesn’t need a nap every day. But he’s really hard to put down even if he doesn’t have a nap.
yesterday he woke around 8am, no nap all
day, I took him up to start wind down at 6:15pm, he finally dropped off at 7:45pm.
last week we took his cot away & he’s now in a double bed (which was in his room anyway) he’s now got the freedom to get out of bed, which I don’t mind, but he doesn’t seem to like being in there on his own. I was hoping he would play, look at his books etc then just flop down when he wanted to sleep. But no. He wants you in there, which I don’t do for the whole time as have other DC’s to sort. But his light is on, his door open, (stair gate across it) so he can see or hear me. Last night he did eventually drop off after a lot of whining & crying. I don’t let him cry much or for long as he’s usually sick of it goes on too long.
Today I’ve just popped upstairs, come back down & he’s asleep on the sofa so full on danger nap territory. I’ll wake him once he’s had 45 mins which I’m sure he will lose his mind at me for.
He goes to the childminders 3 days a week & sleeps for an hour at lunch time but I may ask them to stop letting him sleep. On days he doesn’t nap he doesn’t go to sleep until 9/9:30pm on bad nights.
any advice would be much appreciated, as like I say I feel I’m not doing very well with him somewhere.
thank you