Hi everyone,
I have a problem that really drives me nuts, and I need your input. My 24 months old son has always been a great sleeper, to bed at 8pm, sleeping until 7-8am. He is very good at falling asleep on his own. Occasionally, he will fall asleep within minutes of hitting the pillow. Most of the time, he talks and sings for a while before nodding off. He has a little conversation will his stuffed animals, and then after 15-20min he goes quiet, and we know he is asleep. Ideal? Sure. BUT, here comes the issue: the last couple of months, he has started to sometimes take very long to fall asleep, and I mean REALLY very long, 1-2hours! The next morning, it is impossible to get him out of bed. He is really tired and grumpy and just wants to continue sleeping. He behaves like a teenager??!!!
What can we do? His late nights are random, occurring about every other or every third night now. There is no correlation to long or short naps during the day. He usually has 1-1.5 hour naps at daycare, between noon and 1pm. We put him to bed at 8-8.30 and he get him up at 7.30-ish. In the evenings, he is really tired, often even asks to go to bed, so I can't really put him down later. He never comes out of his room, and always plays/talks/sings quietly in his bed, so I can't really go in and demand that he goes to sleep either. Any good ideas and advice would be much appreciated!
Kristina
