3 year olds sleep driving me crazy
Getting my 3 year old to sleep at a decent time has been a struggle for almost a year now.
Last April I went away for a few days and dad didn't keep up with our usual routine and have her in bed and asleep by 8/8.30pm (this is what worked best for us).
Since then, it's been a nightmare. So she gets up for nursery around 7.30-7.45am every morning. However, she still needs a nap during the day but will refuse an early nap in the afternoon. Here are the 2 problems we're facing:
1. If she naps between 2pm-3pm she won't sleep until past 10pm
2. If she doesn't nap - we've tried cutting this out, she gets really cranky and the tantrums are ridiculous and is falling asleep by 6ish. However if we allow her to go to sleep around 6/7 she treats it like a nap and then is up until stupid o'clock.
Some days she is sooo tired from nursery but will just refuse to sleep! And will just cry for ages.
I literally have no idea what to do about this! I also have a 3 month old and am exhausted and feel like I am getting zero me time!
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I’m in a similar boat. My 3 year old goes to bed around 9:30/10pm. I do believe this is temporary until she’s ready to cut her nap completely then her bedtime will go back to a decent time. In order to get me time, I take myself to bed lol and chill there and leave her dad to put her to bed.
I think you need to keep going with the no naps since she is refusing them… is she napping at nursery? I honestly didn’t know 3 and a half year olds still napped 🤣 mine dropped it at 2.5 as when he did nap he wasn’t sleeping till 10pm, when the nap went he went to bed at 7pm.
Same as above my little one dropped the nap a few months before he turned 3. He does sometimes have a little powernap in the car but it’s never more than 20 mins really. Have you tried getting her up a bit earlier in the morning to see if she will nap earlier if you want to continue with the nap?
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