Sleep

I have to lay with mine until she falls asleep. It can take a while sometimes but if she isn’t falling asleep until 10pm it sounds like she isn’t tired enough. Is she having too much daytime sleep? Do you wake her up early? I wouldn’t let mine sleep in past 7am and I cap her naps at an hour now she is 2. They are getting to the age where they may not need a nap at all anymore! X

I was the same for so long with my son, we’d be awake till 9-10pm too despite trying to put him down from 7:30-8pm 😭
When he turned 1 we moved him to a floorbed in his own room (we’d been cosleeping till that point due to him not going to sleep on his own). We did the ‘pick up put down’ method for a little while so he’d climb out and we’d go put him back in over and over again but he soon learnt to stay in bed.
Now we do his routine, tuck him in with a kiss and leave. Sometimes he gets up again after a short while but 90% of the time he just lays until he’s asleep. We also got his bedtime forward to 8-8:30pm which is perfect for us and he’s so good at settling himself in the night too now.
I know it’s so so tough to break the habit with them and the transition period can be brutal but it’s so worth it!
All kids are different but I’d definitely try to get away from it, for your own sake if nothing else, we all need time in an evening to decompress 🫶🏼