Bedtime Troubles

Hi all,

My 2 year old is starting to refuse bed at 7pm, she will usually go back to sleep after 8pm.

I don't want to keep her up that late but is it normal for them to start staying up later?

This has only happened in the past week or two and she is waking up at 6-6.30am. She is being toilet trained aswell.

Any help out there for me??

is she having a sleep in the day? i know that with eden if she sleeps in the day then she just isnt tired enough to stay in bed till after 9 sometimes.

I don't have any help but I just wanted to say you are not alone! G is taking approx 2 hours plus to get to sleep at night and she goes to bed at 7pm as well. I tried dropping the day sleep but that didn't make any difference. Fingers crossed for a solution!

You arent alone... My DD is doing the same thing at 21months. she sleeps for 2 hours during the day and then i put her to bed at 7pm. she will yell out and carry on for about 1 hour. there is no way that i am cutting out her daytime nap/quiet time just yet!!!!
Fingers crossed that it is a short phase
xx

My DD started to do the same, I found with her cutting back her day sleep helped, but it did take about 3-4 days to have any effect... She did eventually go back to sleeping well at 7pm, it took a bit of effort but there was no way I was letting her bedtime get any later

Same here... cutting the nap only shortens teh screaming bed time sessions by half an hour so i will take my 2 hour peace during the day!

I think Jake is a) lonely b) delayed reaction to baby c) enjoys torturing me

Only one night waking last night woohoo!

We are having the same problems and I have cut the nap.

J now goes down for 1hr from 12.30-1.30 and then bedtime is 7-7.30.

We have gone back to 7-7, which is a vast improvment from screaming for close to an hour, and 5.30-6am wake ups. His behaviour is also heaps better during the day.

He is at daycare 3 days a week and they won't wake him so he will sleep 1.5-2hrs and on those days we are back to the bedtime dramas, late nights and early mornings.

we are having issues too.

Have you tried sitting with her until she nods off??

I have decided to just to this when i need to, its normally day naps.

I find it less stressful to spend 10-30min getting her to sleep than listening to crying and fighting her to sleep for hours

Although i refuse to do this and doubt it would help but have you tried to cut the day nap?

Yep us too. If he has a nap he falls asleep at 7 but then normally will wake up anytime between 9.30-11pm and take a good 2 hours to resettle cos he just thinks it's time to get up, if he does have a nap then instead we get a two hour battle at 7pm instead. I wouldn't mind but no matter how late he either goes to bed or how late he is up in the night he still wakes up around 6ish each morning and never any later than 6.30am and that's a real killer.
No idea how to help at all though, we never had this with the eldest he would just go to bed and chat for a while till he fell asleep or I could sit and read to him for a bit if he was hyped up and needed help settling.

Shelt if I sit in with K he still just carries on, his is just full on tanties cos he doesn't want to go to bed.