3 year old sleep!!!

[Haribo2012]

fingers crossed for a good night for you! DS2 asked me to take him to bed at 6.30pm the other night, said mummy I’m tired and my legs are tired. But then still up in the night! Developmental and growth spurts I think x

[Conniesmummy]

Nope still up at 5:30!! I give up.

[Haribo2012]

Urgh EW are the pits x

[Conniesmummy]

The days are getting so bad too. She gets so grumpy by tea time it’s horrible 
I’ve turned the night light off tonight to see if that helps, it is quite bright. When we are in the caravan her bunk is really dark and she doesn’t have a problem with it and she’s always been in a dark room up until recently when she experienced ‘scared’ for the first time.
I’m running out of ideas. I was reading an old post on here earlier and someone was having similar issues with their 4 yr old. Someone suggested pushing them really over tired by moving bedtime later by over an hour, gradually over a few days and then sticking to the really late bedtime, despite the wu times!! Apparently it can help reset the body clock.
I’m not sure if my littly is too young at 3 to try this and I don’t want to mess just now with the daylight savings happening this week.
Have you heard of this Zoe? X

[Haribo2012]

I’d prob try moving BT later by 15 mins each day to take into account clock change but maybe stick an odd CN in. I have heard of it but never tried it, worth a try maybe!?

I turned the blue light off out sun clock it’s too bright and blue light is more disturbing for sleep. We leave hall light on and have a red separate plug in light in both boys rooms as reds and oranges are more sleep inducing x

[Conniesmummy]

Thanks hun. It isn’t a gro clock, it’s a Mickey Mouse night light with sun and moon feature that works like gro clock if that makes sense. I’d heard about blue light so switched to the lamp but think it was just a little too bright. If it goes badly tonight I may try a small orange plug in x

[Conniesmummy]

Well I gave in last night when she woke at 3:45!! When she didn’t settle by 4:30 and looked like she was up for the day, I got into her ridiculously tiny bed for the rest of the night  she went straight back to sleep....I didn’t 

[Haribo2012]

I know the feeling that was pretty much my night last night! Coffee at work today 😴😴

[Conniesmummy]

It’s a killer. We’ve extended her bed today just in case and she’s got a new single duvet on and a proper pillow!! It’s Disney frozen so hoping to use the bribe factor  also moved her bed off the wall as I thought it was cold 
Who knows eh?

[Haribo2012]

Awhh sounds cosy, hope it works x

[Conniesmummy]

Well, she’s still asleep!! Which means I feel less anxious about moving bt again tonight by 15 mins x

[Haribo2012]

👍🏼😊 great stuff. Go for it lovely x

[Conniesmummy]

Bless her, I watched her on the monitor waking up and she was admiring her new bedding and when I went inshe was so proud of herself and said ‘do I get a token?’ I gave her tonnes of praise. Fingers crossed she keeps it up 🤞

[Haribo2012]

That’s such a lovely update x

[Conniesmummy]

7:30 bt tonight, fingers crossed 😳