https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 21:33:40 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2371637 Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:30:07 +0000 daniellemybelle 2371637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Grace: That's funny - I just mentioned to DH this morning that when she is stretched out, her head touches the top and her feet touch the end! But she sleeps curled up most of the time so it's not an issue. Since we got over the hump, she's been sleeping fine in the PnP. Knock on wood! I don't know why it didn't even occur to me that the PnP might be too small at this age though. We have friends with a LO that slept in a PnP while traveling until she was 3 so I just figured it would work for us too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2371628 Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:06:11 +0000 Grace 2371628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is your LO getting too long for the pack and play? We had an awful time travelling at 19 months last time, because she's roll over and smack into the side or get her head bunched in a corner. Our next trip is when she's 28 months and we'll be bringing a peapod or a shrunks travel bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2371475 Sat, 28 Nov 2015 06:25:46 +0000 rachiecakes 2371475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Melatonin. (Zarbees natural for kids)</p> <p>It's a last resort but after many ruined trips I use it when we travel.<br /> My son used to stay up, trash, yell, jump until 4am making the second day of vacation impossible. As long as he's on his legs for the most part of the day &amp; takes melatonin at night, he'll go to sleep peacefully at 9/10pm and sleep until 6/6:30.<br /> We're at my parents now and he was wild last night but went to bed by 10 &amp; we're up now (6:25). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2370598 Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:35:16 +0000 Foodnerd81 2370598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: so glad you found something that worked!! When you are traveling anything goes. </p> <p>@twodoghouse: you must REALLY like your families. I just would never go anywhere. Like until they were in middle school. But that is a part of the reason we nursed so long- having that crutch on a late flight when she was almost 2 was a life saver. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2370574 Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:04:40 +0000 daniellemybelle 2370574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone. I'm sorry it took me so long to come back. We've been so busy during this trip!</p> <p>So I think her falling asleep in the car and transferring to the PnP did the trick. I'm not sure if it was uninterrupted 10 hours of sleep that got her back on track, or the fact that she woke up in the PnP versus on top of me in my bed. But we transferred her from the car to the PnP the night before last, she slept all night, and then last night she went to sleep on her own in the PnP! Success! </p> <p>I also think she was really constipated (not eating as healthy of a diet while on vacation!) so that didn't help matters. :bummed: </p> <p>If she has a hard time again, though, we will definitely drive her in the car because that did the trick! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368859 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:18:59 +0000 cascademom 2368859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I could have written the same thing about my 3 year old and bedtime in general. We have no quiet time after they go down because he refuses to without 2 hours of bs. We can't watch tv or eat dinner anymore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368841 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:53:24 +0000 Mae 2368841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twodoghouse: you're a better person than I am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368834 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:30:42 +0000 twodoghouse 2368834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have the same problem with my 18 month olds. Well, actually it's a slightly different problem but it's related. They get so tired from not napping that they passour nursing (why I will breastfeed them forever, apparently, because who knows what I'd do if they they didn't nurse). Then we sometimes get them to go down in their PnPs for an hour or two. But once they wake up they won't ever go down again. I just resort to propping myself in bed (which is an air mattress when I'm at my sister's which is crazy) with a baby attached to each boob and try to sleep while they kick each other and bite me instead of nursing. It's very glamorous. Basically every time we sleep away from home (which has been like every other weekend this fall) we know we will get zero sleep and the kids will be in the worst moods ever the whole time. I don't know why we keep trying it except that we generally like our families and want to see them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368822 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:12:25 +0000 Mae 2368822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just refuse to travel. Like at all. But I'm wishing you luck and sending you sleepy thoughts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368816 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:06:43 +0000 Mrs. D 2368816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was going to see co-sleep while travelling because that's what we do, but I see that's not working for you......<br /> Did you try an earlier bedtime and a warm bath with lavender scented products to help the pre-bed calm down? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368812 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:52:02 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2368812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We drive him around until he falls asleep too. also our doctor suggested that if we go through a rough patch where the overtired prevents him from sleeping and starts to spiral out of control we give him a dose of benadryl at bedtime for a day or two and he gets back to normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368808 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:47:07 +0000 winniebee 2368808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: we went on a trip when DS1 had just turned 2. It was a nightmare. We literally had to drive him around at night to get him to sleep. He wouldn't go to bed. We never figured out why (I suspect it was because he wasn't at all used to sleeping in a hotel with us) and it was the only time we had to do that! (Well, one other time, we went camping and had to, around the same age). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368744 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:04:33 +0000 honeybear 2368744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What @Raindrop said: outdoor exercise, and lots of it. My son just needed to move a lot at age 2 (and 3, and 4, and 5...). His sleep was (and still is) 100% better when we had basically done bootcamp/Crossfit/name-your-fave-workout all day that day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368742 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:00:11 +0000 gingerbebe 2368742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can you do a quiet wind down that's special, like bath and PJs and warm milk and an animal cracker (then teeth brushing) and cuddling in bed with some Daniel Tiger or a movie in a dark room and let her doze off? She can sleep on your bed or you can attempt to transfer to the PNP of she will abide it. Maybe if she associates bedtime on vacation with something special and cozy instead of sleeping in a strange place it will make her relax. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368739 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:53:59 +0000 HabesBabe 2368739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 2, overtiredness worked for our daughter, but since it doesn't seem to help you guys, how about putting your foot down and staying on a nap schedule for one day? Maybe that will get things back on track and you'll be able to get her down for a decent bedtime. </p> <p>For CIO, are you doing checks or no checks? Maybe try the other option if the one you're doing hasn't worked. Night light? Too hot? Too cold? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368734 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:47:47 +0000 tiramisu 2368734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Over tiredness is the worst. Sorry I don't have the sleeping secret, but I can commiserate. We recently went on vacation with my 1.5 yr old DD and she was wailing so loud at night I was worried hotel security was going to knock on our door.<br /> Do you have a car available? I use it as an absolute last resort, but a car ride usually puts her to sleep. I've also tried rocking her to sleep, blasting white noise and saying shhhh and running my fingers over her face. It sounds weird, but I saw a YouTube video where the guy did that and his baby went right to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368719 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:25:19 +0000 MrsSRS 2368719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Long bath, air mattress on the floor, special sheets? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368702 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:09:23 +0000 Raindrop 2368702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a boy... I'm sure this might be the same for girls... but we wear him out during the day... run him around... going here to there, so he's super tired in bedtime. Usually this works well for us on vacation since both DH and I are around to tire him out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368667 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:18:32 +0000 Foodnerd81 2368667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Would have a long, quiet, wind down help, do you think? I have found its a lot harder to get my lo to sleep when she is so excited from fun things she has done (when she SHOULD sleep well since she did so much and is tired). </p> <p>That's not much help though. Sorry- that just sucks. When we have had phases like that, they were just that- phases. I'd come home and vow to never, ever, travel again, then when we do travel again she will be fine. But we have some rough trips. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-tips-for-2-year-old-who-refuses-to-go-to-bed-while-traveling#post-2368658 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:08:23 +0000 daniellemybelle 2368658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are at our wit's end. We have tried absolutely everything we can think of including CIO for quite a while but she gets very worked up. She won't sleep in the PnP and she won't sleep in bed with us. She is up until 11, 12, 1 o'clock. </p> <p>This is a new thing - usually when we travel she has a little trouble with sleep but not bonkers like this. This is the second trip in the past 4 weeks and she did the same thing on the last trip. My in-laws are go, go, go during the day so she can't even catch up with long naps which is only exacerbating the problem. (Don't get me started on folks who think overtired kids will just "pass out." OVERTIREDNESS IS AN ENEMY NOT A FRIEND.) Though she is finally napping now and I am afraid to wake her up but afraid to let her sleep too. </p> <p>Please tell me your secret that will convince her to GO THE F TO SLEEP. </p>