OK so 50 minutes but she seemed so wound up despite a short night 9.5 hours and only 50 minutes nap at the child minders compared to 2 hours at home. We have just had a big family weekend away with rubbish sleep.
Our routine, dinner, cool bath, 3 bedtime stories in a dim room. Night dad, quiet cuddles with mum when we talk about Mr Sun and that I'm going to stay in the chair till she is asleep. Goodnight to Mr Sun, sing her lullaby, into cot, kisses to her cuddly, kisses and I love you and I sit down with my hand resting on the side of the cot. The next 40 minutes is like watching a zoo performance, she is all over the cot, hands and knees, jumping, throwing cuddly. Whenever she stood up I'd remove my hand and she immediately turns on the tears "cuddle mummy" this is her asking to be touched. So my no talking goes right out the window as I say "if you want cuddles you need to lie dow" and she launches herself into a prone position saying "ready". At about the 40 min mark she got quite upset again and standing up so I lay her down and then I get "no no no" she is pretty tired by this point so i start to shush intermintently still with my hand on her back. More flipping side to side back to front and finally asleep almost 60 minutes after going in the cot.
Where am I going wrong. This is about a week now of really playing up in the cot at bedtime. Prior to this was just normal stretching an wriggling for 20-30 minutes. Am I missing something? Is she playing me?