DD will be 2 in a week and a half and we've got two issues at the moment. EW and sometimes taking 1-1.5hrs to go to sleep at BT. Bad days look like this:
WU 4:30-5:30 (will not settle back down, wide awake and playing)
Nap 11:30\12 for 1.5 hrs
BT 6:30 (actually in bed ready for sleep but won't fall asleep until 7:30/8, one night it was 9:30)
A slightly better day looks like this:
WU 5:45 (still too early compared to 6:30/7 that she used to do)
Nap 12/12:30 for 1.5 hrs
BT 7 (asleep by 7:30/8)
OH decided to cap her naps to 1.5 hrs as he believed she was getting too much daytime sleep and was causing the EW and her messing about at BT as she was UT. We've been doing this for 2 wks now and no difference so obviously not the right thing to do, so what next? No idea what to do about her nap, what time, cap it, let her sleep?
Then how to handle BT? We know we need to get her into bed early on an early WU otherwise the day is way too long. She's obviously tired after we've done bath, brush teeth and story but it then it seems as if a switch is flicked when I close the book - she goes into hyper mode! She'll kick the covers off, jump out of bed, try to drag books into bed or play with her toys. We put her straight back into bed each time she gets out, repeating 'sleepy tired' 'your tired' and then not engaging with her at all but to no avail (one night we put her back to bed over 100 times!) Sometimes she'll squeal and giggle other times she cries.
It's become a real battle and spending up to an hour and a half outside her door each night is so draining. Especially when we used to just kiss her goodnight, go downstairs and she'd fall asleep! Then combined with the EW and me working full time I'm absolutely shattered!
I'm sure it's all related but not sure how and at a loss on what to do to fix it, any ideas please?
