My toddler is suddenly taking ages to settle at bedtime. What can I do?
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- As parents, we want bedtimes to run as smoothly as possible. We want to know that when we pop our little ones to bed that they're perfectly ready for sleep time. But what do we do when our toddler starts to fight bedtime or take a while to fall asleep?
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My toddler is suddenly taking ages to settle at bedtime. What can I do?
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My 27 months old daughter takes hours to settle. We put her down at 7.30 (with a solid bedtime routine since she was a baby) and it takes her more than a hour (often even more than two hours) to fall asleep by her own. She doesn't cry simply talks a lot for hours and this is going on for months. She wakes up between 6/7 meaning that she sometimes had less than 10 hours sleep. She naps at nursery from 1.15 to 2.30 and she has never fought it. We tried to move bedtime earlier and even later, but nothing changes.
I forgot to say she doesn't eat sugar or watch tv before bedtime, nor she is scared of dark. She sleeps in the cot.
Hi, You might need to look at removing her day nap entirely now if she's taking so long to settle with a nap in the mix. The day time nap is often dropped closer to 3yrs though some toddlers are certainly ready much earlier than this.
If you drop the nap, make sure bedtime is brought forward as she'll be quite tired while she adjusts.
Very informative. Thanks so much.
I have a 2 and a half year old who used to go to bed so we’ll he even used to take our hands and lead us upto bed when he was too tired. We swapped to a floor bed last night from a cot as for months he was just screaming and crying refusing to go to sleep and would not like being in his cot and ended up cosleeping for a couple months. Last night was his first night in his floor bed he refused to be in the room and had to be taken on the sofa to fall asleep next to his dad and taken up once in a deep sleep he did though stay in his bed all night for the first time in months. But Again tonight has refused being in his bedroom even if we stay in read books nothing is working. He has a 30minute day nap sometimes an hour if he’s refusing to wake up. What else can we do?
You could try cutting out the day nap entirely which should help the bedtime settling. You may need to implement a parent presence type method where you sit with him while he falls asleep, and gradually work further away from the bed every few nights until you are able to leave the room using your voice to reassure him
Normally we have good bedtime routine for our 3 year old with brushing teeth, stories, etc. Then we will have family thing to go to and she is just handful when we try to put her down even when we get back at decent time. Shes full of tricks she has to use bathroom and doesnt, she needs water, she needs the right stuffed animal, shes hungry. In her normal routine she might get gramcracker if shes hungry before bed, then brush. Then eventually shes screaming and wanting to stay up and even after the routine if we went anywhere. Its probably overtired but trying to rationalize with her, or put her to bed and leaving the yelling she just goes on until shes almost passes out. I'm probably giving in to her and thinking shes not going to sleep until she wants to sleep or laying down, idea of expecting sleep from anger seems like poor battle. And my wife is the opposite that shes not going to allow it and tells her to go to sleep and puts her back in the room. This happens 1 time a month or little more based on birthdays, get togethers, going to camp.
It's not fun is it! My 5 yr old can be a bit like that sometimes but if it's only when you have things on and it's not happening all the time I'd chalk it up to her being overstimulated and struggling to wind down. Knowing that she's like this on those days, be a little more forgiving and try not to push back too much on her doing things she normally would. Try to spend a little more time winding down on those nights too, We can often be in such a rush to get them to bed since it's later than usual or the routines mucked up that we don't give them enough time to really settle so they push back and they push back hard!
Thank you !