It's been around 6 weeks since we put DD1 (2.5y) in her new room and new bed, big transition I know. First few nights were a dream, we didn't even have a safety gate on her door, she settled like a dream, sttn. Night 5 she figures she can get out
and arrives downstairs twice before we get her off to sleep, DH and I realising we need to get the gate on ASAP
That night around 4am DD2 was screaming so I took her downstairs to find DD1 ON THE SOFA :O Which scared the life out of me, I felt physically sick knowing she had come downstairs on her own and I hadn't heard her, she could have fallen down the stairs, hurt herself in the kitchen, anything
I'm fact she just got straight onto the sofa and fell back to sleep.
Since then obviously we've had a gate on her door. Now she just will not stay in bed at bedtime. I take her up, brush teeth, read her stories in bed, turn her music on and leave the room, leavIng my light in my room on for her. She stays there for around 10 mins sometimes then gets up, turns her cd off then stands at her gate shouting
I do attempt to return her to bed but more often than not she makes such a fuss (this kid is LOUD) that I bring her downstairs and try again after half an hour or so, oftn with a cup of milk to drink in bed
The last 2 nights this farce has gone on til gone 10pm, tonight I ended up lying in her bed til she dropped off
This is a disaster, I want my evenings back
I feel like putting her back in the cot, I wish we hadn't moved her
Help?? Oh she is spirited and touchy xx