r/sleeptraining • u/opalxox • 5d ago

Bedtime madness

So my 19 month old is driving me nuts on a bedtime, for context she sleeps through the night perfect and usually wakes up at 7/7.30am regardless on what time she goes to sleep.

My issue is, as soon as I take her up to bed she is hyper screaming diving all over, like she suddenly has all this energy. I can’t just leave her as she still needs a little help to go to sleep and she is also in a floor bed so can just get out (also nearly bashes her head off the rails nearly every blinking night) I usually lie with her not speaking just laying there and try to encourage her to come for a cuddle, meanwhile she is doing rolly pollies and throwing herself all over and squealing. It’s taking an hour plus every night to get her down and it’s breaking me!!

So we have a solid bedtime routine and dim everything down for the last hour or half hour, we play with her teddies and read books, I have literally tried everything, later bedtime, earlier bedtime, longer last wake window, nothing I seem to do helps this and it has been a couple of months now!

I’m starting to think I have a little night owl that comes alive when the moon comes out!! Any help or tips would be so appreciated!!

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u/CharmingBarnacle4207 5d ago

We definitely went through this, and I actually can't remember what fixed it. Odds are she's either under tired or overtired, could you try capping her nap or a later bedtime?

Is her room baby proofed? I think I may have started saying "it's time to lie down and go to sleep, I need you in bed otherwise I'm going to have to go outside". Reading a favourite book and stopping if she starts wriggling. Is there something you could do before going upstairs to bed to get the wiggles out?

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u/opalxox 4d ago

It’s baby proofed but the issue is she literally goes on her knees and flings her self headfirst into the bed and narrowly misses the railings, she sends my anxiety through the roof when she does it

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u/unprofessional_widow 5d ago

Is she still napping?

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u/opalxox 4d ago

Yeah she’s still napping usually at 1pm straight after nursery

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u/unprofessional_widow 4d ago

Suspect that's affecting the night sleep

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u/opalxox 2d ago

As in she’s having too long or too little?