Sleep

Hey, sleep can be such a stressful thing but honestly some kids need less than others. Maybe she is just not ready to go to bed at that time esp if she's waking up 8/9? Bearing in mind that it's school soon and she'll need to be up, could you start the routine of waking her up at the time that she would need to be up for?
What's your bedtime routine look like?

yeah, it is stressful at times. She will sleep at least 11 hours and lovesss her sleep so will sometimes sleep over 12 hours. She always has, she’s just struggling to actually shut off and fall asleep.
If I wake her earlier, she still won’t fall asleep until later.

So currently for preschool, I have to wake her and get her dressed whilst she’s still in bed half asleep most of the time as she doesn’t wake up on time. Sometimes she does but not often! So she can wake up between 7-8.

Our bedtime routine will be go upstairs, either have a bath or shower, pjs, read stories. Then we say goodnight, kisses and cuddles. She has a tonie figure, and we leave her to it, and she goes to sleep when she’s ready.
Obviously it varies but generally that’s what we do. Recently she’s been asking for more stories or more tonie figures which I say no too and she gets super upset/annoyed that I say no. We’ve got a reward chart too with good bedtimes on! Not sure what else I can do to help her x

Have you tried asking her if there's anything about going to sleep that she's afraid of? Do you have a night light?
Could you maybe need to shift the bedtime routine a little earlier? My LO is in bed between 7-7 30 and he sleeps...we start bedtime at 6, bath or shower, pjs, back down for supper n a jigsaw or stories, then teeth, 10 mins for stories n then wee and bed


You can never know

I’ve asked her and she just says ‘because I can’t’. She’s not scared no. Not from what I can gather.
Also, she loves it being dark and actually sleeps with an eye mask 😂
Yeah, I’ve tried to bring it earlier this week and start the process around 6:30 and she’ll fall asleep around 8, so that does work but again it’s long!
I guess the only positive is that she sleeps through once she is asleep. It’s just such a process.
Thanks so much for commenting xx

Sleeping thru is the main aim 🙌🏼🙏🏼

It could be that she's processing the thought of going to school, which would be a big change, like starting a new job lots of unfamiliar things that are hard to articulate....
Maybe have a 5 mins chat window so you can talk about your days n what was hard, what was fun and what's happening tomorrow?
Hope it's maybe just a phase and she settles soon for you 🤞🏼 x

exactly. And she does that so I can’t complain. I just worry about school. I also think actually it’s because we don’t have a routine as such now that she’s off preschool for the summer. So it could just be that. I said to my partner tonight, I’m gonna have to wake her up at 6 or 7 to reset her haha. But we’re going away next week, so maybe I’ll just suck it up, and really try get her to sleep earlier once we’re back in preparation for school.

Yeah maybe it is. We had a cuddle on her chair tonight and I asked her why she didn’t want to fall asleep and if there was anything she was worried about or wanted to talk about but she just said she loved me, wanted a cuddle and she wasn’t tired (whilst yawning and rubbing her eyes haha)

Good idea. Thank you. We used to do ‘what’s your favourite part of the day today, and worst part!’ I’ll make an effort to have that chat!
Tonight she called me up just before 10 asking for fluffy socks 🙈😂
I’ll just have to have a little more patience x

Patience is a virtue that we sometimes lose....easily!
Deffo scrap any ideas for routines on holiday, what's the point! Start when you get back, clear routine and until she's settled into it, I'd keep it even over the wknd . Hopefully it's just a random blip and she'll get into a fab routine that works for your family.
Have an amazing holiday and good luck to you, and your girl for school 🎒💞 xx

yes. I need to work on the patience and I’ve been trying super hard these last few nights and it’s definitely been better.
Oh 100%. There’s absolutely no point. I think what I’m going to do is when my baby wakes for a feed around 6:30 and when he falls back to sleep at 7am instead of me falling back to sleep, I’m going to get up and wake her. Then hopefully she’ll get into better routine. And I’ll let her enjoy the holiday and then try and crack down on it!

Oh yeah I will do the weekend too. Get her into it. Thanks so much for commenting and helping me out! Really appreciate it.
Aw thanks lovely xxx