Please Help---Toddler Sleep Problem!!!

Hello Everyone,

I have a reallt problem with my 18 month DD. She has been a good sleeper since she was born. She started sleep through the night since she was 4 month old, and always had enough day time sleep. But the problem started about 3 weeks ago, she too longer to fall alseep for her night sleep. She normally doesn't make a sound when we put her down and go straight to sleep, but now she has to cry really bad for us just to put her PJ on, and will take anywhere from 1 to 2 hours to fall asleep. sometimes either me or my DH have to stay with her untill she fall asleep, and she will wake up in the middle of the night few times, sometime she can go back to sleep by herself, sometime she will need us to be in her room again or she will simply just want to play for about one hour.

To make it worse she start doing the same thing for her daytime sleep too. She even skipped couple of her daysleep, and got really tired around 5pm.

I have tired almost everything, but nothing seems to be working. She has always been in a strick bed time routine and it was always been good. I just cannot figure out why she suddenly changed, nothing seems to be changed around her or our house. And she is normally adopt to change really well, even when we moved house about 5 month ago, it didn't seem to effect her in any ways.

So please if anyone in or have been in the similar situation please give me some advices, I really wish she could go back to what she use to be.

Thank you

Hi Tancy22,

My DD had same kind of change to her routine about the same age - no matter how tired she seemed she just didn't need a nap each day. She also flaked out a few times on the couch which interrupted her bedtime for the night. I could not stand the arguments and hours it took to get her to have a nap - so we had a quiet time on the couch for an hour where she was not allowed to talk or get up. It seemed to work for a while until she could get through the rest of the day ok. If she did nap - she'd be up til 10pm which was not too good for any of us. I still am devastated at the loss of this free time but I guess it happens to everyone eventually - I am still not sure why anyone would argue with an inforced nap, lol, sounds GREAT to me!

Good luck - hopefully it is just a passing phase for you!

:hug: sounds like she might be ready to drop that daytime sleep.
My DD1 did that around her 2nd birthday. She now has her dinner around 4:30pm, then bath, then teeth and bed around 6pm - she is usually sound asleep by 6:30pm! It means that come 2pm we are both exhausted, but once we start the evening routine it's wonderful!
I hope everything is ok and that you can find a routine that works for you :hug:

Hi thanks girls,

I have kept her up today (actually she did not want to sleep, I tried to put her down for about one and half hour), but she been grumpy all afternoon, I know she was tired, and by 5pm, she fall asleep on my DH shoulder. Then I thought I may just give her some milk (She did not have dinner yet) and straight in her cot for the night sleep. But as soon as we put her in the cot she opened her eye and start crying really really loud, I kept her in the cot and tried to put her back to sleep with no luck for almost 2 hours. So I got her up, she happily played for about 30 min, and we go through her bed time routine, DH put her down and stayed in her room with her, she fall asleep within 10 mins.

I don't know if this is the solution or maybe I should just go with the flow, hope she will get better soon.