My DD has always been very good at going down to sleep -in part my ruthlessness at needing her to to self soothe as I have a 2 year old who can't leave on his own for too long (the length of a Ben & Holly episode 😂).
At nap or bedtime I have only had to put her into her sleep bag, close curtains, sing twinkle twinkle then say 'night night' and put her in her cot. She then sucks her thumb to sleep. She also has sound waves on as white noise.
As of 3 days ago this changed -she starts crying as I put her in her sleep bag and crying "gets serious"!
I have started weaning her in the last couple weeks. That's the only change.
Her routine is:
WU: 6.30 & BF
7:45 -Breakfast
S: 8:45am
WU: 10:15 & BF
S: 12:30
WU: 2:00 & Lunch
3:00 BF
S: 4:15
WU: 4:45/5:00
5:00 - Dinner & BF
Bedtime -7pm (& BF)
Morning wake up is time family get up for work /nursery so struggle to get her to sleep longer hence why her activity times are 2hr15 but she does struggle to stay awake this long. Likewise if I put her to bed at 6.30pm she'd be woken by her brothers bedtime antics (try telling a 2 year old to keep quiet!) at 7pm so this is best that we can do.
I can put her down for naps after 2hr Activity-time but the way the day would work out, she'd have long awake time in the afternoon.