caz_hills
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Hi all
I’m sorry but I need help. My two and a half year old has never been a great sleeper. She is a strong minded girl. She sleeps when she wants to!
She naps in the day but I think we need to drop it. She doesn’t really need it anymore.
But at night it takes me about 2 hours to get her to sleep. We have what I think is a text book bedtime routine. Bath, milk with a bit of TV (ok maybe we could drop that), then teeth and toilet, two books, two songs and we leave her. She is fine for a bit then cries. Shouts for us. We go in, cuddle, pick up put down. But again, and again, and again. Then she needs a wee (she doesn’t but we take her once and she doesn’t go but knows it’s a reason to get up). And eventually I end up sitting next to the crib (not touching or patting her) and she sleeps in five minutes. I don’t want to create a rod for my own back but it’s the only way.
It’s so hard. My husband is often away with work and I spend over two hours trying to get her to sleep then I have to work late into the night. So tonight it was 2230 before she is asleep. I have started getting frustrated with her which is upsetting me now.
Please help me. I live abroad but I have no family where I live to help me and my husband is often away and so it’s me on my own with both kids. I just dream of a peaceful relaxing bedtime routine. My 7 year old sleeps like a dream.
Thank you so much
I’m sorry but I need help. My two and a half year old has never been a great sleeper. She is a strong minded girl. She sleeps when she wants to!
She naps in the day but I think we need to drop it. She doesn’t really need it anymore.
But at night it takes me about 2 hours to get her to sleep. We have what I think is a text book bedtime routine. Bath, milk with a bit of TV (ok maybe we could drop that), then teeth and toilet, two books, two songs and we leave her. She is fine for a bit then cries. Shouts for us. We go in, cuddle, pick up put down. But again, and again, and again. Then she needs a wee (she doesn’t but we take her once and she doesn’t go but knows it’s a reason to get up). And eventually I end up sitting next to the crib (not touching or patting her) and she sleeps in five minutes. I don’t want to create a rod for my own back but it’s the only way.
It’s so hard. My husband is often away with work and I spend over two hours trying to get her to sleep then I have to work late into the night. So tonight it was 2230 before she is asleep. I have started getting frustrated with her which is upsetting me now.
Please help me. I live abroad but I have no family where I live to help me and my husband is often away and so it’s me on my own with both kids. I just dream of a peaceful relaxing bedtime routine. My 7 year old sleeps like a dream.
Thank you so much