Our boy turned two and during the last weeks he has trouble falling asleep. He always went to sleep at 9 which was already late. But now he just doesn’t fall asleep sometimes until 11.
Even when we try to bring him to bed at 8 it takes also two to three hours for him to fall asleep.
He only let’s his mom bring him to bed and then she stays there with him until he falls asleep. Sometimes he asks for me additionally to join and then he rolls in the bed kicks us, climbed on us and so on because he can’t fall asleep.
More often than not we fall asleep first and only then he falls asleep. He doesnd go out of the bed or anything just can’t fall asleep.
Any tips what worked for your children?
We were lucky - our guys went to sleep pretty well on their own, but there were a few times where they were crying and we needed to stop ourselves from going in.
I think we did a thing where we’d go in immediately after the first shout; if he cried again, wait five minutes before going in; then ten minutes, etc. IIRC it took a few nights.
We did this too when he was like 10 months. Hm, perhaps it is time to try again.