here is the story my dd age 2.5 has always been a perfect sleeper im talking 7-7 put down awake shut door no night light off to sleep not a peep wake up talk to herself and amuse her self in bed untill we call her in to our bed. we have now ds 20wks dd stopped napps about 2 months befor he was born this was to expected considering her age, when ds came along all went pete tong she went to sleep on her own but started waking in the night and coming into our bed we tried putting her back in her own bed but she would become very distressed and with the upheaval of a new sibling we decided to forgive this and let it go on untill the situatin was a little more settled then dd started not wanting to go to sleep on her own and wanting either me or dh to lay with untill she fell asleep this generally took around an hour sometimes more she'd scream if we left her we tried night light door open door closed putting her back into bed everytime she got out nothing worked so with also havong to deal with a newborn with gave in hoping it would all right itself once everything settled down and she got used to her brother and a new routine alas she noe sleeps through (most of the time) but bedtime is no better its just taken me the best part of 1-3/4 hrs to get her off my dh is working long hrs and late nights so i do the bedtime thing on my own i need a quick fix (as quick as possible i do understand it takes a certain amount of time and work) my ds is in a pretty good routine of going dwn at 7 but i just need dd to go down on her own befor it becomes a real stuck habbit thankyou for reading i know iv gone on
tia