Playing up at bedtime
Hi,
I haven't posted in here before but I guess now ds is 13 months I should!
Jack has always been really good at bedtime, we had a routine quite early and with the exception of times of illness he will self settle and sleeps 11 hours or so. He is an early riser but normally in bed by 7-7.30pm. He is in the transtition stage of 2 naps to 1 afternoon nap, over lunchtime at the mo!
:roll:anyway I'll get to the point lol....in the last few weeks he will just not go to bed...he cries and screams, just sits or stands in his cot...when we bring him downstairs or sit with him he is fine and just wants to play or read his books....we try and just sit with him and read, we don't let him play, he is showing all the signs of being tired but just will not give in!
Is this just a phase? Any experience would be helpful as I am at a loss as to what to do...it's been 9.30 several nights now before he settles and eventually falls asleep on one of us and then we have the issue of having to wake him fo nursery at 7 the next morning when he hasn't had enough sleep!
Thanks
Sazzle and Jack xx
I haven't posted in here before but I guess now ds is 13 months I should!
Jack has always been really good at bedtime, we had a routine quite early and with the exception of times of illness he will self settle and sleeps 11 hours or so. He is an early riser but normally in bed by 7-7.30pm. He is in the transtition stage of 2 naps to 1 afternoon nap, over lunchtime at the mo!
:roll:anyway I'll get to the point lol....in the last few weeks he will just not go to bed...he cries and screams, just sits or stands in his cot...when we bring him downstairs or sit with him he is fine and just wants to play or read his books....we try and just sit with him and read, we don't let him play, he is showing all the signs of being tired but just will not give in!
Is this just a phase? Any experience would be helpful as I am at a loss as to what to do...it's been 9.30 several nights now before he settles and eventually falls asleep on one of us and then we have the issue of having to wake him fo nursery at 7 the next morning when he hasn't had enough sleep!
Thanks
Sazzle and Jack xx
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about a month ago I decided to just put her in bed awake with some lullaby music on. The first 3 nights she screamed for half an hour but I didn't give in. Eventually she went to sleep
that week the time she screamed got less and less until in the end she just accepted it was bedtime.
Now I just lay her down, put her music on and she waves me bye bye!
We have finally got our evenings back yey!
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